§ 4109. Access to information.
(a) Agencies.--The director is authorized to secure information, data, expense information, estimates and statistics directly from a Commonwealth agency or a political subdivision. All Commonwealth agencies and political subdivisions shall furnish the director with all reports of expenditure for each agency and any other available material or data which the director determines to be necessary in the performance of the duties of the office, other than material the disclosure of which would be a violation of law. The director is also authorized, upon agreement with the head of any Commonwealth agency or political subdivision, to utilize the services, facilities and personnel of the agency with or without reimbursement.
(b) Office of the Budget.--In carrying out the duties and functions of the office, the director is authorized to obtain information, data, estimates and statistics developed by the Office of the Budget and all Commonwealth agencies. The Office of the Budget shall submit to the office copies of final agency budget requests at the same time they are submitted to the General Assembly under the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929.
(c) Computer database.--In order to carry out its duties under this chapter, the office shall have access to any computerized database of a State agency that is required to aid the office in the performance of its duties, except that any statutory requirements regarding privacy of individuals' records shall be observed in providing access.
(d) Daily revenue data.--
(1) The Secretary of Revenue and the Secretary of the Budget shall post revenue collection data for each deposit day and make the information available to the office and the chairman and minority chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate and the chairman and minority chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives.
(2) The Governor, the Attorney General, the Auditor General and the State Treasurer shall cause to be prepared any other revenue data as may be requested by the office.
(e) Tax information.--For the purposes of carrying out its official duties under section 4105 (relating to revenue estimates) and notwithstanding any other law of this Commonwealth, the office shall be authorized to access any information in the possession of the Department of Revenue that is obtained from tax payments, returns or reports, including adjustments or corrections made by the department. The information accessed under this section shall be confidential except for official purposes and any person divulging the information shall be subject to section 731 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code.
(f) Civil action.--If information is not made available by a Commonwealth agency or political subdivision within a reasonable time, the director may make a written request to the agency head, stating the authority to receive the information. The agency head shall have 15 days to respond. If the information is not provided within 15 days of the receipt of the director's request, the director may bring a civil action to require the agency head to provide the information.
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