• Community colleges are now covered agencies. As a result, their records are presumptively public;
• The PIAA (Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association) is now expressly covered;
• The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency and its related entities are now expressly covered;
• Grant applications are public records (and not just the contracts reflecting funded grants);
• Records reflecting a public employee's demotion or discharge are public;
• The General Assembly is now included as an "agency," and the law expressly identifies a number of legislative records that are public, including financial records, manuals and written policies, and financial audit reports;
• Records that are presented to a quorum of an agency for deliberation at a public meeting (e.g., board packets), are public, with limited exceptions;
• 911 time response logs are public.
• The law provides for the creation of an online searchable database for state contract information.
• State-affiliated universities are now required to publicly disclose certain financial information, including the salaries of all officers and directors and salaries of the highest paid employees.

Many other records will be available as well, since the new law begins with the presumption that all state and local agency records are publicly available. As a result, you should be able to access any record that is not exempt under the law.