(1) Meetings of the advisory committee shall be at the
call of the chair but must be held at least annually.
(2) At least once each year, the advisory committee
shall present recommendations which have been adopted by a
majority of the advisory committee to the director. The
recommendations shall be published on PennWATCH.
(g) Compensation prohibited.--Members may not receive any
compensation or reimbursement connected to service on the
advisory committee.
(h) Expertise of appointed members.--The appointed members
under subsection (d)(2) and (3) shall be persons with expertise
in fields or practices relating to PennWATCH, including, but not
limited to, journalism, government, information technology, data
management, website design, open government and fields of
research which use data from PennWATCH.
Section 5. Sections 5 and 6 of the act are amended to read:
Section 5. Vendor identification system.
The vendor identification system specified by the [Governor's
Office of Administration] office shall be used to provide a
common designation of each entity and to facilitate aggregation.
Section 6. Report to Governor and General Assembly.
The [Governor's Office of Administration] office shall
prepare an annual report containing statistical information on
the usage and performance of the website. The report shall
contain frequency of user access of the website, types of data
being accessed [and], website performance and recommendations
adopted by the advisory committee. The report shall be submitted
to the Governor and the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader
of the Senate and the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader of
the House of Representatives by March 30 of each year beginning
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