No member or officer of any department of the government shall be in any way interested in any contract for furnishing stationery, printing, paper, fuel, furniture, materials, or supplies, to the State Government, or for the printing, binding, and distributing of the laws, journals, department reports, or any other printing and binding, or for the repairing and furnishing the halls and rooms used for the meetings of the General Assembly and its committees.
71 P.S. § 196