An Act 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.

Summary

The bill establishes the Pennsylvania Civic Information Consortium, a non‑partisan nonprofit that will run a competitive grant program for nonprofit, educational, library and community‑media groups to produce local news and civic‑information projects, with a focus on underserved communities. It lets the consortium contract with the State Library System or a public university for administrative, fiscal or logistical services while keeping the consortium free from state control. The aim is to fill news deserts and strengthen democratic participation.

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