December 11-13, 2023

Bills voted on Third Consideration

SB 597 (LAUGHLIN) Amends Title 74 (Transportation) to modernize the management of local transportation
organizations with comprehensive reforms. PASSED 47-1.

SB 686 (GEBHARD) Authorizes the Department of General Services to grant and convey a track of land in Windsor
Township, Berks County. PASSED 47-1.

SB 847 (BAKER) Authorizes the release of Project 70 land restrictions on certain parcels owned by the Pennsylvania
Fish and Boat Commission in Overfield Township, Wyoming County. PASSED 48-0.

SB 867 (KEARNEY) Repeals the City Classification Law of 1895 and amends Title 11 (Cities) to establish the city
classification process with it. Maintains the Governor’s responsibility to certify city population based upon Federal
decennial census data but allows a city to maintain its current classification regardless of population; requires any city
choosing to become a Second Class A city to adopt a home rule charter seeking that designation; and provides a
longer transition period into a change of class. PASSED 48-0.

SB 887 (HUTCHINSON) Amends Title 9 (Burial Grounds) to exempt municipal cemeteries from maintaining a
permanent lot care fund of at least $25,000 and registering with the State Real Estate Commission. PASSED 48-0.

SB 977 (FARRY) Amends Title 75 (Vehicles) to make it unlawful to interfere with the operation or movement of public
transit vehicles. PASSED 47-1.

HB 1058 (KRAJEWSKI) Amends Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) to require courts during a child custody
hearing to allow those who wish to provide kinship care to be given notice of a hearing, and the right to be heard
regarding their qualifications to provide care. PASSED 48-0.

Bill amended on Third Consideration

HB 1096 (MALAGARI) Amends the Liquor Code to allow certain amusement parks and public gardens to obtain a
public venue license. Also allows hotel liquor licenses issued before 1965 to be converted to a restaurant liquor
license for a fee. AMENDED AND RE-REFFERED TO APPOPRIATIONS.

               A03145 (PITTMAN) Deletes e-commerce provisions relating to malt or brewed beverage licensees. Changes
               application deadline for hotel license conversions from January 1, 2024 to July 1, 2024. ADOPTED 48-0.

Bill voted on Supplemental

HB 1278 (PIELLI) Amends Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) to allow the use of body worn cameras by state parole agents
and Department of Corrections investigators under certain circumstances; establishes an exception to allow the
recording of certain telemarketing calls; and extends the expiration date of the Wiretap Act through 2029.
PASSED 40-8.

Bills voted on Third Consideration

HB 38 (MUSTELLO) Amends the Liquor Code (Title 47) to allow licensees for hotels, restaurants, clubs, distributors,
importing distributors and retail dispensers to transfer a nonoperational license with prior approval. Requires payment
of a surcharge in the amount of $15,000 (First through Third Class Counties) and $5,000 (Fourth through Eight Class
Counties). PASSED 49-1.

SB 142 (MASTRIANO) Amends the Funeral Director Law to remove the requirement for a widow or widower to remain
unmarried in order to maintain the deceased spouse’s funeral director license. PASSED 50-0.

SB 943 (PHILLIPS-HILL) Amends the Travel Insurance Modernization Act to allow the issuance of limited lines travel
insurance provider licenses and restrict travel insurance to be sold through a licensed insurer. An insurance producer
licensed in a major line of authority is also authorized to sell travel insurance and a property and casualty insurance
producer is not required to become appointed by an insurer. PASSED 50-0.

SB 979 (CULVER) Amends Title 3 (Agriculture) to require a dealer, agent or person that offers a domestic animal,
commercial feed or pet food for sale to the public to post notice on the premise with dangerous transmissible disease
information. PASSED 50-0.

HB 1160 (N. NELSON) Amends the Liquor to allow holders of hotel or restaurant licenses, eating place retail
dispenser licenses and brew pub licenses to host an unlimited number of off-premises catering events,
increased from 52 events per calendar year. Also increases the number of self-sponsored events allowed for
catering clubs within a calendar year from 12 to 24, with no more than two events per month. PASSED 50-0.

HB 1507 (TOPPER) Amends the Public School Code to require a school entity provide 180 days or 900 elementary/990
secondary hours of instruction in a school year instead of the current requirement of both 180 days and 900/990
hours of instruction. PASSED 50-0.

Bills voted on Supplemental

SB 721 (SCHWANK) Creates the WIC State Advisory Board Act by establishing the board to advise the Department of
Health on the operation of the WIC program, outreach initiatives to increase participation (particularly regarding WIC
breastfeeding services), technology improvements for program efficiency, and increasing access to WIC-authorized
stores. PASSED 50-0.

SB 773 (GEBHARD) Amends the Medical Marijuana Act to provide dispensary permits to independent
grower/processors (GPs) and to provide grower/processor permits to independent dispensaries. Removes the 60-day
window to submit a permit application; allows an independent GP or dispensary that has been denied a permit to
reapply within 30 days of the denial; removes requirement for the Department of Health to accept new applications
during an annually scheduled application process in the event that an independent GP or dispensary has not applied
for or has been denied a permit; and removes requirement for an independent GP or dispensary to surrender their
permit if they convert to a clinical registrant. CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS 44-6.

Bills amended on Supplemental

HB 1096 (MALAGARI) Amends the Liquor Code to allow certain amusement parks and public gardens to obtain a
public venue license. Also allows hotel liquor licenses issued before 1965 to be converted to a restaurant liquor
license for a fee. OVER AS AMENDED.

            A03320 (A. WILLIAMS) Creates a Stop-and-Go Legislative Task Force to review and analyze Stop-and-Go
            establishments. Requires the Task Force to issue a report within four months of its first meeting that defines and
            creates a liquor license category for stop-and-go establishments located in a city of the first class and recommends
            procedures for regulating them in a First Class City. ADOPTED 50-0.

HB 1258 (KINSEY) Amends the Public School Code to allow school entities to include a high school student enrolled in
dual credit courses in their average daily membership (ADM) until June 30, 2025. OVER AS AMENDED.

             A03256 (PITTMAN) Changes the report date for PDE to September 1, 2024 and makes the calculation for students
             enrolled in dual credit courses retroactive to July 1, 2023. AGREED TO.

Bills voted on Supplemental

HB 301 (HARKINS) Amends the Public School Code of 1949 to replace and update outdated terminology related to
physical or mental disabilities to conform with modern usage and effectuates the fiscal year 2023-2024 education
budget and makes numerous policy changes. CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO SENATE AMENDMENTS, AS
FURTHER AMENDED BY THE SENATE 43-7.

SB 843 (ARGALL) Amends the Public School Code of 1949 to add Pennsylvania to the Interstate Teacher Mobility
Compact and temporarily extend or make permanent certain substitute teacher and classroom monitor permit
provisions from Act 91 of 2021. Coordinates and streamlines all provisions of school safety under the Pennsylvania
Commission on Crime and Delinquency. Effectuates the 2023-2024 education budget and makes numerous policy
changes to the Public School Code. CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS, AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE 45-5.

SB 907 (REGAN) Amends the Public School Code to require school entities have at least one full-time armed school
security person on duty during the school day beginning within the 2024-2025 school year. Authorizes the
Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to establish criteria for granting waivers to school entities from
meeting the requirements for armed school security personnel. PASSED 30-19.

HB 1300 (MEHAFFIE) Amends the Fiscal Code, providing for the 2023-2024 fiscal year budget Implementation and
other changes. CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO SENATE AMENDMENTS, AS FURTHER AMENDED BY THE
SENATE 45-0.

SB 55 (SANTARSIERO) Amends Title 23 (Domestic Relations) and Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) to revise
procedures relating to child custody matters and provide for child abuse and domestic abuse education and training
programs for judges and court personnel, respectively. PASSED 50-0.

HB 666 (BULLOCK) Amends the Housing Authorities Law to repeal provisions requiring executive-level employees of
the Philadelphia Housing Authority to be at-will employees. Also repeals provisions prohibiting the authority from
providing payment or other things of value to those employees in connection with separation from employment.
PASSED 43-7.

HB 1284 (NEILSON) Amends Title 75 (Vehicles) to make omnibus changes related to automated camera enforcement
programs. PASSED 47-3.

HB 1478 (CEPHAS) Amends the Public School Code allowing public health dental hygiene practitioners to perform
school dental screenings. PASSED 50-0.

HB 689 (HARRIS) Amends Title 18 (Crimes & Offenses) by modifying clean slate provisions to authorize the sealing of
felony convictions under the Controlled Substance, Drug, Device & Cosmetic Act and certain property crimes. PASSED
47-3.

SB 44 (DUSH) Amends Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 23 (Domestic Relations) to allow sexually exploited minors
to be properly classified as victims of human trafficking. Also expands those eligible to apply for address confidentiality
services to victims of those patronizing sexual servitude. CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS 50-0.

SB 361 (J. WARD) Adds a Common Pleas Court judgeship in Northumberland, Luzerne, Dauphin, Chester, Huntingdon,
Columbia/Montour, Lehigh, Wyoming/Sullivan, and Butler Counties. Adds two Common Pleas Court judgeships in
Montgomery County. CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS 50-0.

SB 527 (FARRY) Amends Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) to make theft of mail an offense. CONCURRED IN HOUSE
AMENDMENTS 45-5.

SB 596 (ARGALL) Amends Title 18 (Crimes & Offenses) to change the thresholds for the value of stolen merchandise
used in grading offenses for possession of or under control of the organized retail theft enterprise. Establishes the
Office of Deputy Attorney General for Organized Retail Crime Theft. CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS 45-5.

SB 683 (MASTRIANO) Amends Title 35 (Health and Safety) to require urine drug screening for fentanyl and xylazine in
hospitals and directs the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs to create and distribute educational materials
related to xylazine awareness. CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS 50-0.

SB 815 (BAKER) Amends the Tax Reform Code to provide that income received by a resident trust, and income
received by a nonresident trust from sources within the Commonwealth, is taxable to the grantor of the trust or
another person to the extent the grantor or other person is treated as the owner of the trust under the federal
Internal Revenue Code, whether or not such income is distributed or distributable to the beneficiaries of the trust or
accumulated. Expands the Qualified Manufacturing Innovation and Reinvestment Deduction program by lowering the
eligibility amount and also makes changes to the amount of the deduction, the time needed to complete construction
of projects, and the duration of the deduction. CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS 50-0.

SB 838 (BAKER) Amends Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) to provide limits to revocations of probation for
technical violations and establish probation review conferences. CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS 48-2.

SB 941 (BROOKS) Amends the Administrative Code provisions for the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs to
define an “opioid epidemic” and to provide flexibilities in staffing for addiction treatment programs. CONCURRED IN
HOUSE AMENDMENTS 50-0.

Bills voted on Third Consideration

HB 613 (HARRIS) Non-preferred appropriation to the University of Pennsylvania for Fiscal Year 2023-24 for veterinary
activities and the Center for Infectious Diseases. PASSED 47-3.

SB 149 (BREWSTER) Amends the Real Estate Tax Sale Law to allow a county to establish, by ordinance, a demolition
and rehabilitation fund. The county may impose a fee of no more than $250 on the sale of any property for
delinquent taxes or mortgage foreclosure to be deposited in the fund. PASSED 41-9.

SB 634 (PENNYCUICK) Amends the Right-to-Know Law to add notes and working papers prepared by a public official
or agency employee used to accommodate a disability to the list of exceptions from public record. PASSED 50-0.

HB 863 (D. WILLIAMS) Amends Title 53 (Municipalities Generally to allow an applicant for police officer certification
for a school located in Philadelphia to score no lower than the 30th percentile of the Cooper Standards for each
required physical fitness standard. Also requires applicants to demonstrate reading comprehension through a test
approved by the Municipal Police Officers’ Education and Training Commission. PASSED 50-0.

HB 900 (CEPHAS) Amends Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) to provide for procedures relating to pregnant or postpartum
prisoners in correctional facilities. Also provides for the protection of children in facilities operated or licensed by the
Department of Human Services and establishes training and education requirements for staff in those facilities.
PASSED 50-0.

HB 1096 (MALAGARI) Amends the Liquor Code to allow certain amusement parks and public gardens to obtain a
public venue license. Also allows hotel liquor licenses issued before 1965 to be converted to a restaurant liquor
license for a fee. Creates a Stop-and-Go Legislative Task Force to issue a report within four months of its first meeting
that defines and creates a liquor license category for stop-and-go establishments located in a city of the first class, as
well as recommends procedures for regulating them in a First Class City. PASSED 49-1.

HB 1131 (BOROWSKI) Amends Act 218 of 1905 (creating the Department of Health) to authorize the department to
close state health centers when a county has elected to operate its own county health department. PASSED 50-0.

HB 1258 (KINSEY) Amends the Public School Code to allow school entities to include a high school student enrolled in
dual credit courses in their average daily membership (ADM) retroactive to July 1, 2023. PASSED 50-0.

HB 1289 (FLEMING) Amends Title 68 (Real and Personal Property) to provide for repudiation of discriminatory real
estate covenants. PASSED 50-0.

Executive Nominations

Environmental Hearing Board, Paul J. Bruder, Jr. Confirmed 42-8.
Environmental Hearing Board, Mary Anne Wesdock Confirmed 43-7.
Board of Pardons, Harris Gubernick Confirmed 44-6.
State Charter School Appeal Board, Carol Aichele Confirmed 48-1.
State Charter School Appeal Board, Donald E. Alexander Confirmed 48-1.
State Charter School Appeal Board, Helena F. Gaspar-Liddle Confirmed 48-1.
State Charter School Appeal Board, Lisa M. Kennedy Confirmed 48-1.
State Charter School Appeal Board, Thomas H. Killion Confirmed 48-1.
Board of Trustees of Clarks Summit State Hospital, Antoinette M. Hamidian Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of East Stroudsburg University, Elizabeth M. O’Brien Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of East Stroudsburg University, John J. Pekarovsky, III Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Laurie A. Kuzneski Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, David Osikowicz Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Nathan T. Spade Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Kutztown University, Sandra K. Green Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Kutztown University, Robert P. Grim Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Kutztown University, Kevin Harden, Jr. Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Kutztown University, Dianne M. Lutz Confirmed 48-1.
Board of Trustees of Lincoln University, Robert L. Archie, Jr. Confirmed 48-1.
Board of Trustees of Lincoln University, Kevin E. Vaughan Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Millersville University, Jordan A. Harris Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Millersville University, Michael G. Warfel Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Pennsylvania Western University, Mohamed Yamba Confirmed 48-1.
Board of Trustees of The Pennsylvania State University, David M. Davis Confirmed 48-1.
Board of Trustees of The Pennsylvania State University, Daniel J. Delligatti Confirmed 48-1.
Board of Directors of the PA Higher Education Assistance Agency, Daniel I. Gilman Confirmed 48-1.
Board of Trustees of the University of Pittsburgh, Curtis E. Aiken Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Shippensburg University, Andrew D. Alosi Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Shippensburg University, Moriah N. Hathaway Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Shippensburg University, Ashley M. Loper Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Slippery Rock University, Angele J. Stoebener Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of Slippery Rock University, Joshua B. Young Confirmed 48-1.
Board of Trustees of South Mountain Restoration Center, Constance L. Swan Confirmed 48-1.
Board of Trustees of Temple University, Patrick J. Eiding Confirmed 48-1.
Board of Trustees of Temple University, Kenneth E. Scott, Sr. Confirmed 48-1.
Board of Trustees of Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, Barry L. Schlouch Confirmed 48-1.
Board of Trustees of Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, Todd D. Shertzer Confirmed 48-1.
Board of Trustees of Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, Marshall W. Snively Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of West Chester University, Carolyn T. Comitta Confirmed 48-1.
Council of Trustees of West Chester University, Barry C. Dozor Confirmed 48-1.