PRINTER'S NO. 2545
No. 2046 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY HERMAN, MICHLOVIC, NAILOR, STETLER, BARLEY, ITKIN,
FARGO, BELARDI, GANNON, PLATTS, BOSCOLA, HESS, NICKOL,
RAYMOND, LESCOVITZ, COY, TULLI, GORDNER, COWELL, DEMPSEY,
HUTCHINSON, DeLUCA, HENNESSEY, MERRY, MANDERINO, TRELLO,
SCHRODER, RUBLEY, SEMMEL, JOSEPHS AND BUNT, OCTOBER 3, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, OCTOBER 3, 1995
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of December 10, 1968 (P.L.1158, No.365),
2 entitled "An act creating and establishing the Legislative
3 Data Processing Committee: providing for its membership;
4 prescribing its powers, functions and duties; and making an
5 appropriation," providing for access to computer information
6 systems by persons outside the General Assembly.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 2 of the act of December 10, 1968
10 (P.L.1158, No.365), entitled "An act creating and establishing
11 the Legislative Data Processing Committee: providing for its
12 membership; prescribing its powers, functions and duties; and
13 making an appropriation," is amended to read:
14 Section 2. The committee shall have the following powers and
15 duties:
16 (1) To establish and operate a legislative data processing
17 center incorporating a system or systems which will be capable
18 of storing and retrieving all of the financial, factual,
1 procedural and legal information necessary to serve all of the
2 committees, officers and agencies of the General Assembly.
3 (2) To provide access to computer information systems
4 operated by the committee to persons outside the General
5 Assembly as the committee deems appropriate. Such access will be
6 provided in the manner approved by the committee. No information
7 residing in the computer information systems operated by the
8 committee shall be released or disseminated to persons outside
9 the General Assembly without the approval of:
10 (i) The legislative service agency or office which
11 originated, prepared, generated or maintains the information in
12 the form released or disseminated regardless of the source of
13 the information. This information includes, but is not limited
14 to, constitutions, statutes, bills or other documents subject to
15 action by the General Assembly, legislative histories, calendars
16 and journals, rules and regulations of the executive branch and
17 reports or other publications of the legislative service agency
18 or office.
19 (ii) The Senate Committee on Management Operations if the
20 information was originated, prepared, generated or maintained in
21 whole or in part by the Senate and is not subject to
22 subparagraph (i).
23 (iii) The Bi-partisan Management Committee of the House of
24 Representatives if the information was originated, prepared,
25 generated or maintained in whole or in part by the House of
26 Representatives and is not subject to subparagraph (i).
27 [(2)] (3) To appoint and employ an executive director, who
28 shall be the chief executive officer of the committee, and such
29 other personnel as the committee may deem necessary in the
30 performance of its duties and to fix the compensation of such
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1 executive director and other personnel.
2 [(3)] (4) To enter into contracts for the services of such
3 professional, expert or technical services as the committee may
4 deem necessary in the performance of its duties.
5 [(4)] (5) To purchase or rent such equipment and supplies as
6 the committee may deem necessary in the performance of its
7 duties.
8 [(5)] (6) To select its own chairman, vice-chairman and such
9 other officers as the committee may deem necessary in the
10 performance of its duties.
11 [(6)] (7) To make such rules and regulations as the
12 committee may deem necessary to properly carry out the purpose
13 of the most efficient use of a legislative data processing
14 system.
15 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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