In the wake of a funding scandal centered on a Beaver County nonprofit group, state Sen. Jane Orie is demanding that a state economic development agency reform its procedures for monitoring the use of state funds.

And two other Republican senators, including freshman Elder Vogel of Beaver County, want to prevent any senators from creating, controlling or influencing nonprofit community groups that get state money.

In recent years, two Democratic senators, who have now left the Legislature, had roles with such nonprofit development groups -- Sen. Vincent Fumo with a South Philadelphia group and Sen. Gerald LaValle as co-chairman of the Beaver Initiative for Growth, the one Ms. Orie is targeting.

The McCandless Republican is highly critical of the Department of Community and Economic Development for not doing enough to ensure that the $10 million in state grants given to the Beaver Initiative were audited and spent properly.

Based on a grand jury's recommendation, Attorney General Tom Corbett last week filed 28 corruption charges against former House Democratic Whip Mike Veon of Beaver, the founder of the Beaver Initiative, who is accused of doling out the state money for his personal and political benefit.