Bill Text: PA SB581 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for program evaluation.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 18-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-06 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [SB581 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB581-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 611
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 581 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY BROWNE, BAKER, BRUBAKER, ALLOWAY, RAFFERTY, ERICKSON, BOSCOLA, WAUGH, PILEGGI, ORIE, EARLL, SMUCKER, SCARNATI, CORMAN, VANCE, FOLMER, PIPPY AND WONDERLING, MARCH 6, 2009
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 6, 2009
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
"An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
Executive Department thereof and the administrative
departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
officers, and of the several administrative departments,
boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
number and compensation of the deputies and all other
assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
commissions shall be determined," further providing for
program evaluation.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 611 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, added
September 27, 1978 (P.L.775, No.149), is amended to read:
Section 611. Program Evaluation.--The Secretary of the
Budget shall have the power and it shall be his duty to initiate
and conduct, under the direction of the Governor, evaluations of
the effectiveness and management efficiency of programs
supported by any agency under the Governor's jurisdiction;
including Federally funded as well as State funded programs, and
to direct, coordinate, assist and/or advise any agency under the
Governor's jurisdiction in the conduct of evaluations of its
programs or of programs which it supports. It shall also be the
duty of the Secretary of the Budget to prepare reports detailing
the results of program evaluation conducted by the secretary for
distribution to the Governor, the General Assembly, interested
agencies, and the public. The Majority Chairman and Minority
Chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate and the
Majority Chairman and Minority Chairman of the Appropriations
Committee of the House of Representatives shall have the power
to recommend performance measures of the effectiveness and
management efficiency of programs supported by an agency under
the Governor's jurisdiction.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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