As Chairman of the State Government Committee, Frank Oliver spearheaded the movement to adopt an official state song for Pennsylvania. During the 1987-1988 session, he headed a Special Select Committee to do just that. This committee was not an official select committee of the House, not being formed by legislation. It was more of an "ad hoc" committee including members of the general public.

Representative Oliver served as Chair of this special committee. Representing the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association were Sandra R. Sitter, Roland Dollhopf and Cynthia Conway. Randall Rosenbaum and Christine Voight represented the Governor's Council on the Arts. Jean W. Gilmore, a professional musician, also served on the committee.

Advertisements were sent out across Pennsylvania asking for residents to submit ideas, suggestions, new songs, old songs for consideration. Hundreds of submissions were sent to Sandra Bennett, Executive Director of the State Government Committee, including audio cassettes, vinyl record albums, sheet music, and lyrics. After deliberation, "Pennsylvania" by Eddie Khoury and Ronnie Bonner was chosen and presented to the House for adoption. House Bill 2212 of 1988 was proposed, but was not approved.

In 1989, the same song was presented again as House Bill 200. After some debate, the Bill was adopted and the Governor signed Act 150 into law on November 29, 1990, making this song the official state song of Pennsylvania.

The collection contains hundreds of submissions, including cassettes of original music, as well as suggestions for already existing songs. Correspondence and news clippings from 1985 to 1990 are also housed in the collection.