Feb. 08, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Clint Owlett (R-Tioga/Bradford/Potter) offered the following response to Gov. Tom Wolf’s final state budget address Tuesday. The governor is proposing a record $43.7 billion spending plan that represents a $6.2 billion, or 16.6%, increase over the current year.
Feb. 08, 2022 /
HARRISBURG - State Rep. Greg Rothman (R-Cumberland) issued today the following statement on Gov. Tom Wolf’s final budget address:
Feb. 08, 2022 /
HARRISBURG — Rep. Zach Mako (R-Lehigh/Northampton) issued the following statement in response to Gov. Tom Wolf’s $43.7 billion budget proposal:
Feb. 08, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Tim O’Neal (R-Washington) today issued the following statement in response to Gov. Tom Wolf’s $43.7 billion fiscal year 2022-23 budget:
Feb. 08, 2022 /
WHAT: Rep. Curt Sonney (R-Erie), chairman of the House Education Committee, will hold a joint public hearing with the House Appropriations Committee on the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education’s (PASSHE) report pursuant to Act 50 of 2020 and the system’s implementation plan for improvement of operations.
Feb. 08, 2022 /
WHAT: The House State Government Committee will take up the following bills during its next meeting:
Feb. 07, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – In support of adults and children with medical conditions like autism, the House of Representatives today passed Rep. Tom Mehaffie’s House Bill 19 to create professional licensure for those practicing applied behavior analysis.
Feb. 07, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Reps. Tracy Pennycuick (R-Montgomery) and Mike Driscoll (D-Philadelphia) have introduced legislation that would allow Pennsylvania workers who currently have no opportunity to save for retirement at their place of employment the ability to join a voluntary employee retirement savings program.
Feb. 07, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Legislation to establish the Purple Star School Program in Pennsylvania, sponsored by Rep. Karen Boback (R-Lackawanna/Luzerne/Wyoming), chairman of the House Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee, advanced to the Senate after its unanimous passage in the House of Representatives today.
Feb. 07, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – The bicameral, bipartisan Legislative Audit Advisory Commission (LAAC), chaired by PA House Majority Caucus Chairman George Dunbar (R-Westmoreland), today voted unanimously to accept the audit report of the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s finances for the 2021 fiscal year as conducted by an independent certified public accounting firm.
Feb. 07, 2022 /
HARRISBURG - Legislation to address a problem plaguing employers across Pennsylvania is on its way to the governor, according to bill sponsor, Rep. Brett Miller (R-Lancaster).
Feb. 07, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough recommended the citizens’ map, drawn by Lehigh Valley resident Amanda Holt, be used as the congressional redistricting map in the upcoming election, Rep. Seth Grove (R-York), who introduced the map in House Bill 2146, said.
Feb. 07, 2022 /
YORK- Rep. Stan Saylor (R-York) today announced that the House Appropriations Committee, which he chairs, amended legislation to provide critical funding to support Emergency Medical Services (EMS) across Pennsylvania.
Feb. 07, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Speaker of the House Bryan Cutler (R-Lancaster) and House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) issued the following statement after Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough selected the congressional map passed by the Pennsylvania House and Senate in January:
Feb. 07, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Aiming to ensure Pennsylvanians have access to additional COVID-19 treatments, the House Health Committee advanced today legislation by Rep. Dawn Keefer (R-York/Cumberland) to allow for prescribing and dispensing drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for off-label use to treat coronavirus infections.
Feb. 04, 2022 /
HARRISBURG—Rep. Todd Stephens (R-Montgomery) responded to the Legislative Reapportionment Commission (LRC), which today endorsed a new state House district map that reversed a preliminary plan that split Horsham Township into two state House districts. Horsham is kept whole in the LRC plan approved today:
Feb. 04, 2022 /
TROY – With many farms in the Northern Tier struggling to stay in business, Rep. Clint Owlett (R-Tioga/Bradford/Potter) joined with local officials, economic development advocates and farmers Friday to hear a presentation from Keystone Farm Future (KFF).
Feb. 04, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin), a commissioner on the Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission, on Friday voted against the final state House map put forward by Legislative Reapportionment Commission Chairman Mark Nordenberg and supported by the other Democrats on the commission.
Feb. 04, 2022 /
EMMAUS – Continuing to provide additional aide to area veterans, Rep. Milou Mackenzie is offering Veteran Assistance Hours each month at her district office (1245 D Chestnut St. in Emmaus).
Feb. 04, 2022 /
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) at a press conference Friday released an amendment he will be making to the final House map offered by the Chairman of the Legislative Reapportionment Commission.