News Digest :: June 18, 2019

Legislature Lawmakers ask for help to curb gun violence in Philadelphia after a weekend of 19 shootings, 5 deaths...

Post Session Report :: Monday, 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...

News Digest :: 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...

Senate News Digest :: 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...

News Digest :: 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...

Senate Democratic Wrap-Up for the Week of June 10, 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....