71 Pa. Stat. § 240.9B

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-111
Section 240.9B - Access to information.
(a)Agencies.--The director is authorized to secure information, data, expense information, estimates and statistics directly from a Commonwealth agency or a political subdivision. All Commonwealth agencies and political subdivisions shall furnish the director with all reports of expenditure for each agency and any other available material or data which the director determines to be necessary in the performance of the duties of the office, other than material the disclosure of which would be a violation of law. The director is also authorized, upon agreement with the head of any Commonwealth agency or political subdivision, to utilize the services, facilities and personnel of the agency with or without reimbursement.
(b)Office of the Budget.--In carrying out the duties and functions of the office, the director is authorized to obtain information, data, estimates and statistics developed by the Office of the Budget and all Commonwealth agencies. The Office of the Budget shall submit to the office copies of final agency budget requests at the same time they are submitted to the General Assembly under this act.
(c)Computer database.--In order to carry out its duties under this article, the office shall have access to any computerized database of a State agency that is required to aid the office in the performance of its duties, except that any statutory requirements regarding privacy of individuals' records shall be observed in providing access.
(d)Daily revenue data.--
(1) The Secretary of Revenue and the Secretary of the Budget shall post revenue collection data for each deposit day and make the information available to the office and the chair and minority chair of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate and the chair and minority chair of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives.
(2) The Governor, the Attorney General, the Auditor General and the State Treasurer shall cause to be prepared any other revenue data as may be requested by the office.
(e)Tax information.--For the purposes of carrying out its official duties under section 605-B and notwithstanding any other law of this Commonwealth, the office shall be authorized to access any information in the possession of the Department of Revenue that is obtained from tax payments, returns or reports, including adjustments or corrections made by the Department of Revenue. The information accessed under this section shall be confidential except for official purposes and any person divulging the information shall be subject to section 731 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code.
(f)Civil action.--If information is not made available by a Commonwealth agency or political subdivision within a reasonable time, the director may make a written request to the agency head, stating the authority to receive the information. The agency head shall have 15 days to respond. If the information is not provided within 15 days of the receipt of the director's request, the director may bring a civil action to require the agency head to provide the information.
(g) Collective bargaining agreements.--The Office of Administration and the Office of the Budget shall:
(1) Submit to the office at least 20 days, excluding weekends and holidays, in advance of its execution, copies of each proposed collective bargaining agreement under the jurisdiction of the Governor.
(2) Concurrent with each submission under paragraph (1), provide the office with a detailed cost analysis of the proposed collective bargaining agreement. The analysis shall compare the collective bargaining agreement in effect at the time of submission to projections for the proposed collective bargaining agreement for the current fiscal year and the remaining subsequent fiscal years in the agreement. The analysis shall include:
(i) The number of employees covered by the agreement, by fund.
(ii) Wages and salaries, by fund.
(iii) Employer costs for employee benefits, including pension contributions, by fund.
(iv) A summary of the changes to paid leave, working hours, working conditions or any other term of employment in the proposed collective bargaining agreement and the projected cost of such changes, by fund.
(v) A statement explaining the data, assumptions and methodology used to make the projections.
(3) Within four days, excluding weekends and holidays, of a request by the director, provide the office with any in- formation, data, statistics or analysis determined by the director to be necessary to fulfill the office's obligations under section 604-B.

71 P.S. § 240.9B

Added by P.L. TBD 2016 No. 100, § 1, eff. 7/20/2016.