Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB550 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version

                             
PRINTER'S NO. 567 
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL 
No.550 
Session of 
2025 
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, FONTANA, J. WARD, KEARNEY, COSTA, STEFANO 
AND SCHWANK, APRIL 4, 2025 
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, APRIL 4, 2025 
AN ACT
Amending Title 65 (Public Officers) of the Pennsylvania 
Consolidated Statutes, in ethics standards and financial 
disclosure, further providing for statement of financial 
interests required to be filed and for powers and duties of 
commission.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1.  Section 1104 of Title 65 of the Pennsylvania 
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
§ 1104.  Statement of financial interests required to be filed.
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(a.1)  Statewide official and member of the General 
Assembly.--Beginning May 1, 2026, and each May 1 thereafter, a 
Statewide official and member of the General Assembly shall file 
electronically the statement of financial interests required 
under subsection (a). The filing must be in a form and manner 
prescribed by the commission.
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Section 2.  Section 1107(7) of Title 65 is amended and the 
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19 section is amended by adding paragraphs to read:
§ 1107.  Powers and duties of commission.
In addition to other powers and duties prescribed by law, the 
commission shall:
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(7)  Compile and maintain an index , including a database 
on its publicly accessible Internet website, of all reports 
and statements filed with the commission to facilitate public 
access to such reports and statements and instruct other 
State and local agencies which receive and file financial 
interest statements in the maintenance of systems , including 
publicly accessible Internet websites, which facilitate 
public access to such statements. The database required under 
this paragraph shall be searchable and sortable by, at a 
minimum, the following:
(i)  The name of the individual filing the report or 
statement.
(ii)  The office held by the individual filing the 
report or statement.
(iii)  The year the form was filed.
(iv)  Whether or not the form is an amended filing.
The database required under this paragraph shall be 
operational no later than May 1, 2026.
(7.1)  Connect an amended filing to the original filing 
on its publicly accessible Internet website in a way that a 
person accessing one will be notified of the existence of the 
other.
(7.2)  Provide an e-mail notification option for a person 
who would like to be notified of new filings.
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30 Section 3.  This act shall take effect as follows:
(1)  The amendment of 65 Pa.C.S. § 1107(7) shall take 
effect in 180 days.
(2)  The remainder of this act shall take effect 
immediately.
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