Establishing the Pennsylvania Civic Information Consortium; providing for administrative, fiscal or logistical services and governance and duties of the Pennsylvania Civic Information Consortium, for grantmaking priorities, for editorial independence, for public access and transparency and for long-term funding strategy.
Establishing the Local News Fellowship Program; imposing duties on an administering institution; and providing for administration of the Local News Fellowship Program.
Providing for temporary operational and financial assistance; and imposing duties on the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, the Pennsylvania State Police and the Office of State Treasurer.
Further providing for definitions, for proposed regulations and procedures for review, for final-form regulations and final-omitted regulations and procedures for review, for procedures for subsequent review of disapproved final-form or final-omitted regulations, for existing regulations and for regulations, annual reports, hearings and advisory group meetings.
Providing for liability for false claims, for adoption of congressional intent of the Federal False Claims Act, for damages, costs and civil penalties, for powers of Attorney General, for qui tam actions and for civil investigative demands.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a thorough and comprehensive study on the feasibility of the establishment by the Pennsylvania National Guard and the Pennsylvania State Police of a joint police and tactical unit training facility at Fort Indiantown Gap and issue a report containing findings and recommendations.