Post Session Report 2025

Monday, June 23, 2025 HB 240, PN 192 (Benninghoff) – This bill amends Title 75 (Vehicles) to provide for hearing aid tests for school bus drivers.  A vote of 50-0 was recorded. SB 468, PN 893 (Langerholc) – This bill amends Title 74 (Transportation) to allow for an...

SB 311, PN 436 (Yaw) – Prohibits municipalities from restricting or prohibiting the connection of utility service to a consumer based on source of energy. A vote of 34-15 was recorded. SB 719, PN 862 (Hutchinson) - Amends the CPA Law to provide for automatic license...

SB 95 PN 918 (Phillips-Hill): Permanently permit EMS providers to leave a dose package 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 Department of...

Monday, June 9, 2025 SB 64, PN 509 (Bartolotta) – This bill amends Title 51 (Military Affairs) to require the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to design an official Commonwealth logo for veteran-owned businesses and to create an application process for...

SB 376, PN 0322 (Phillips-Hill) – This bill seeks to ban the application TikTok from state devices and networks. A vote of 49-0 was recorded. SB 377, PN 865 (Phillips-Hill) – This bill requires state contracts to utilize National Institute of Standards and Technology...

SB 89 PN 44 (Mastriano): Amends the Overdose Mapping Act to require the PA Department of Health to submit data related to a known or suspected overdose already reported by EMS providers through existing networks to the overdose information network system under the...

Monday, June 2, 2025 SB 731, PN 749 (Farry, Collett) - Amends the State Lottery Law to update the eligibility requirements for the PACE and PACENET programs.  A vote of 50-0 was recorded. SB 302, PN 762 (Baker) - Amends Title 23 (Domestic Relations) to clarify the...

SB 90 PN 45 (Mastriano): Amends Title 35 (Health & Safety) to provide additional testing options for fire and emergency services training at the Firefighter 1 level. A vote of 49-0 was recorded. SB 246 PN 764 (Coleman): Amends the Public School Code to require...

Monday, May 12, 2025 SR 94, PN 702 (Langerholc) – This resolution directs the Joint State Government Commission to establish a task force on the recruitment and retention of law enforcement.  A vote of 50-0 was recorded. SB 226, PN 179 (Phillips-Hill) – This amends...

SB 115, PN 757 (Argall) - Amends the Human Services Code to allow the Department of Human Services (DHS) to offer a skills competency exam as an alternative to a high school diploma or GED for individuals seeking employment as direct care staff in a personal care home...

SB 115 PN 66 (Argall): Amends the Human Services Code to allow the Department of Human Services to offer a skills competency exam as an alternative to a high school diploma or GED for those seeking employment as direct care staff in a personal care home or assisted...

Monday, May 5, 2025 SB 255, PN 207 (Baker): Amends Title 42 (Judicial Code) to add the offense of sexual assault by sports official, volunteer or employee of a nonprofit association to tier II of the Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) and...

SB 315, PN 249 (Culver) - Amends the School Code to lock in the data used in the career and technical education equipment grants on June 1st of each year. A vote of 49-0 was recorded. SB 472, PN 427 (Phillips-Hill) - Amends the Administrative Code of 1929, at section...

SB 92 PN 472 (Mastriano): Known as “Tyler’s Law”, this legislation amends Title 18 (Crimes Code) to create a new mandatory minimum, for conviction of drug delivery resulting in death, of at least 10 years imprisonment and a fine of $15,000 or greater equal to the...

Monday, March 31, 2025 SB 471, PN 425 (Laughlin) – Amends Title 42 (Judicial Code) to require any attorney for the Commonwealth to notify ICE at any point during a criminal proceeding if the defendant is not a U.S. citizen or present in the Commonwealth in violation...

SB 202 PN 474 (Gebhard): Amends the Money Transmission Business Licensing Law to provide the Department of Banking and Securities with oversight of virtual currency and requiring entities transmitting virtual currency for a fee to be licensed as a money transmitter. A...

Tuesday, March 25, 2025 SB 130 PN 79 (Mastriano): This bill provides that a licensed funeral director, funeral entity, or cemetery company shall, within 96 hours of receipt of the remains of a deceased serviceperson, notify the county veterans affairs director of the...

Monday, March 24, 2025 SB 78, PN 34 (Pittman) - Designates a bridge in Banks Township, Indiana County.  A vote of 49-0 was recorded.

SB 129, PN 78 (Mastriano) - Amends Title 51 (Military Affairs) to reform the structure of the advisory councils that oversee the operation of each of the state veterans’ homes. A vote of 49-0 was recorded. SB 173, PN 181 (Pennycuick) - Amends Title 51 (Military...

SB 186, PN 125 (Yaw): This bill would provide for the repeal of regulations relating to the CO2 Budget Trading Program. Any provisions of 25 PA. Code Chapter 145 Subchapter E (relating to CO2 Budget Trading Program) are repealed. A vote of 31-18 was recorded. The...