An effort supporters say will increase transparency in several leading Pennsylvania universities passed the House of Representatives while the universities’ annual state subsidies remain snarled in the Legislature due to a partisan funding dispute. The bill passed 201 to 1 on Monday. It now goes to the state Senate.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — An effort supporters say will boost transparency in several leading Pennsylvania universities passed the House of Representatives on Monday, while the universities’ annual state subsidies remain snarled in the Legislature in a partisan funding dispute.passed 201-1. It now goes on to the state Senate, where the chamber’s Republican majority has yet to take up a House bill to send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to four state-related universities.
The four universities, referred to as “state-related universities,” are not state-owned, but receive hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars that support in-state tuition and operations.
Universities would be required to list the salaries of all officers and directors, as well as up to the 200 highest-paid employees, plus faculty salary ranges. They would have to disclose enrollment and staff employment figures. The universities would have to report how much money is brought in and spent each year, and would have to file a list of contracts exceeding $5,000 to the governor’s office and Legislature.
They are in line to receive about $623 million, a 7% increase proposed by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro. But House Republicans chafed at that request, saying that tuition increases had been too steep and that the system needed more transparency and reform.
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