Jun. 20, 2022 /
WHAT: Rep. Sue Helm (R-Dauphin/Lebanon) will chair a meeting of the House Gaming Oversight Committee in which Senate Bill 1159 will undergo a vote. The bill would amend the Local Option Small Games of Chance Act to provide for an extension of the distribution of proceeds until Dec. 31, 2022.
Jun. 20, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Reps. David Rowe (R-Snyder/Union) and Joe Hamm (R-Lycoming/Union) have been appointed to serve on the powerful House Judiciary Committee by Speaker of the House Bryan Cutler (R-Lancaster).
Jun. 16, 2022 /
WHAT: The House Majority Policy Committee will hold its fourth and final hearing about inflation, this time focusing on long-term solutions to rising costs. Testifiers will discuss how tax and regulatory relief can lower costs for consumers, drive investment in the Commonwealth and create economic growth.
Jun. 16, 2022 /
WHAT: The House Education Committee, chaired by Rep. Curt Sonney (R-Erie), will hold a voting meeting to consider two proposals on a variety of education topics. They include measures that would establish the state-related university performance-based funding incentive (House Bill 2619) and allow for the advanced enrollment of military children (House Bill 1813).
Jun. 15, 2022 /
HARRISBURG - Legislation authored by state Rep. Sheryl M. Delozier (R-Cumberland) that would allow Pennsylvania to come into compliance with future federal regulations on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and allow the use of refrigerants by the Uniform Construction Code (UCC) unanimously passed the House Wednesday.
Jun. 15, 2022 /
HARRISBURG—Rep. Todd Stephens (R-Montgomery) today announced the federal government through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finally recommended that the acceptable levels of PFAS in drinking water should be reduced to barely detectable levels. This is the standard Stephens first demanded in 2016 during his long fight to remove PFAS from local drinking water.
Jun. 15, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Legislation to award members, civilian and military, of foreign nations has passed the state House, said Rep. Todd Polinchock (R-Bucks), who authored the measure.
Jun. 15, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Junior firefighters are one step closer to having access to improved training after the House unanimously approved a bill by Rep. Torren Ecker (R-Adams/Cumberland) to prepare junior firefighters for becoming full firefighters.
Jun. 15, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – The House today passed legislation authored by Rep. Jason Silvis (R-Westmoreland/Armstrong/Indiana) to bring the disability placard renewal process into the 21st century.
Jun. 15, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Rosemary M. Brown (R- Monroe/Pike), majority chairwoman of the House Urban Affairs Committee, announced her bill that would help ensure the development of attainable and affordable housing units was approved unanimously by the committee Tuesday.
Jun. 15, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Lori Mizgorski’s (R-Allegheny) legislation aimed to increase and encourage solar energy development in Pennsylvania has passed the full House. House Bill 1161 would expand access to solar power through a local and voluntary solar program while ensuring adequate ratepayer protection.
Jun. 15, 2022 /
HARRISBURG - The House State Government Committee advanced several bills, including legislation to give law enforcement the tools to combat rampant unemployment fraud and another to improve the system of checks and balances, during its meeting this morning, Chairman Seth Grove (R-York) said.
Jun. 15, 2022 /
WEST GROVE – Rep. John Lawrence (R-West Grove); Sen. Carolyn Comitta (D-West Chester); Chester County Commissioners Marian Moskowitz, Josh Maxwell, and Michelle Kichline; and Penn Township Supervisor Victor Mantegna today announced that ChristianaCare has entered into an agreement to acquire Jennersville Hospital in West Grove. The transaction is anticipated to close in the third quarter.
Jun. 14, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – In the third of its series of hearings on inflation, the House Majority Policy Committee on Tuesday heard testimony reaffirming the significant role energy prices and the policies that stifle the industry’s growth are having on employers, working people and their families.
Jun. 14, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Legislation to help address a problem contributing to Pennsylvania’s nursing shortage has been signed into law, according to the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Brett Miller (R-East Hempfield).
Jun. 14, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – A bill sponsored by Rep. Karen Boback (R-Lackawanna/Luzerne/Wyoming) that would designate March 29 of each year as “Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day” in Pennsylvania passed unanimously in the House of Representatives on Monday. House Bill 2586 will next be considered by the Senate.
Jun. 14, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – To bring Pennsylvania’s Right to-Know-Law up to date with advances since it was first enacted 14 years ago, the House today approved House Bill 2524 by Rep. Lou Schmitt (R-Blair).
Jun. 14, 2022 /
HARRISBURG — Today, PA House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee (ERE) Majority Chairman Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) issued the following co-sponsor memo calling for the impeachment of outgoing Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Patrick McDonnell:
Jun. 14, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Reps. Josh Kail (R-Beaver/Washington), Torren Ecker (R-Adams/Cumberland) and Tim O’Neal (R-Washington) noted on Tuesday an incredible outpouring of support from the public and fellow members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in the effort to ensure the laws are enforced in Philadelphia by the willfully derelict District Attorney Larry Krasner.
Jun. 14, 2022 /
WHAT: The House State Government Committee will meet Wednesday to take up several bills, including legislation to give law enforcement the tools to combat rampant unemployment fraud.