June 18, 2019
Legislature Lawmakers ask for help to curb gun violence in Philadelphia after a weekend of 19 shootings, 5 deaths...
June 17, 2019
HARRISBURG – June 17, 2019 – Following a senseless act of violence on Father’s Day, and scores of other homicides in the city of Philadelphia and across the state, Senator Anthony H. Williams sent a letter to Governor Tom Wolf asking for a state of...
June 17, 2019
HARRISBURG – June 17, 2019 —State Senator Steve Santarsiero, state Representative Tom Murt, Dr. Rachel Levine, Secretary of Health for Pennsylvania, Joey Julius, former football kicker for the Penn State Nittany Lions, and representatives from the National...
June 17, 2019
SB 93, PN 882 (Bartolotta) – Amends Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes to create the offense of drug delivery resulting in serious bodily injury. A vote of 50-0 was recorded. SB 118, PN 937 (Langerholc) – This bill will establish the Recovery to Work...
June 17, 2019
June 17, 2019
Legislature Old enough to marry? Or buy cigarettes? Age matters in bills before Pa. lawmakers https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/06/old-enough-to-marry-or-buy-cigarettes-age-matters-in-bills-before-pa-lawmakers.html Pennsylvania breweries might dodge sales tax bullet...
June 16, 2019
Budget Minimum wage, state police fee top budget fight https://www.citizensvoice.com/news/minimum-wage-state-police-fee-top-budget-fight-1.2496523 State Police Bills put burden of funding state police on taxpayers...
June 15, 2019
Minimum Wage As Pennsylvania’s budget deadline approaches, is a minimum wage increase still on the table? As Pennsylvania’s budget deadline approaches, is a minimum wage increase still on the table? Your View: How ‘one fair minimum wage’ would...
June 14, 2019
The Senate unanimously approved House Bill 619, which recognizes June 19 of each year as “Juneteenth National Freedom Day” in Pennsylvania. The holiday is a reference to June 19, 1865 in Galveston, Texas, when slaves in that state learned they had been freed....
June 14, 2019
