June 29, 2023
June 29, 2023
Harrisburg, Pa. – June 28, 2023 — Today, Senator Maria Collett (D-12 Montgomery) joined her colleagues in the legislature and fellow nurses from across the Commonwealth to celebrate the passage of HB 106, the companion to Senator Collett’s Patient Safety...
June 28, 2023
June 28, 2023
NEWTOWN – June 28, 2023 – Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) announced $100,000 in state funds for continued renovations of the Newtown Theatre at the theater’s “Reel” Garden Party last week. The funding for the Newtown Theatre will be used toward the second phase of...
June 28, 2023
Harrisburg, June 28, 2023 – The Pennsylvania Senate today passed S.R. 136 from State Senators Jimmy Dillon (D, Philadelphia) and Frank Farry (R, Bucks) by a vote of 50 to 0. The bi-partisan resolution extends Governor Shapiro’s emergency disaster proclamation in...
June 28, 2023
SB 683, PN 929 (Mastriano) – Amends Title 35 to require general acute care hospitals to test for fentanyl and xylazine if a urine drug screening is conducted to assist in diagnosing a patient’s condition and provides for reporting requirements of urine drug...
June 28, 2023
HARRISBURG − June 28, 2023 − Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) and Representative Perry Warren (D-31) announced that Senate Bill 442 and House Bill 735, each of which would establish a task force to address rising flood insurance premiums, were voted unanimously out of...
June 28, 2023
Legislature ‘Long time coming’: Pa. Senate passes probation reform bill | Wednesday Morning Coffee – Pennsylvania Capital-Star (penncapital-star.com) Pennsylvania Senate advances bill to overhaul probation system (headtopics.com) Refining turnpike...
June 27, 2023
SB 81, PN 652 (Phillips-Hill)—This bill would permanently permit EMS providers to leave a packaged dose of naloxone with the on-scene caregiver of a patient who overdosed on opioids and was revived by the EMS, providing a standing prescription has been issued by the...
June 27, 2023
HARRISBURG – June 27, 2023 – Today, the Senate voted to pass a bill sponsored by Sens. Anthony Williams (D-8), Lisa Baker (R-20) and Camera Bartolotta (R-46) that will reform Pennsylvania’s probation system. “I’ve said this before, and I will continue to say it—people...
