Aug. 12, 2021 /
LEHIGHTON – After canceling last year due to the pandemic, Rep. Doyle Heffley (R-Carbon) and Sen. John Yudichak (D-Luzerne/Carbon) are once again co-hosting their Senior Citizens Expo on Wednesday, Sept. 1, in Lehighton.
Aug. 12, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – This week in Harrisburg, the House Transportation Committee, led by chairman Rep. Tim Hennessey (R-Chester) conducted a public hearing on House Bill 279, which, as written, would help undocumented mushroom, farm and orchard workers secure a driver’s license in Pennsylvania.
Aug. 11, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Carl Walker Metzgar (R-Bedford/Somerset) encourages farmers to apply for the Commonwealth Specialty Crop Block Grant program.
Aug. 11, 2021 /
WHAT: Community and business leaders in the Wellsboro area will discuss their commitment to restoring the Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally (STPR) as part of the American Rally Association’s national championship in 2022. Event planners recently announced they had to downgrade this year’s event to an East Regional Championship event due to permitting issues with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR). The change will have a negative economic impact on the community and rob this region and give to another the opportunity to showcase area forestlands on a worldwide stage.
Aug. 11, 2021 /
BRIDGEVILLE – Rep. Jason Ortitay (R-Washington/Allegheny), a member of the House State Government Committee, will host the committee for a hearing on Wednesday, Aug. 25, to receive input from residents on congressional redistricting.
Aug. 10, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – Legislation sponsored by Rep. Chris Quinn (R-Delaware) that would revamp driver education conducted outside of public schools was the subject of a House Transportation Committee hearing today. House Bill 1244 would repeal the 69-year-old Private Driver Education or Training School Act from 1952 and task PennDOT with developing a new curriculum and to license private driver educational schools under the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code.
Aug. 10, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Tim Bonner (R-Mercer/Butler) will host the first regional hearing in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on Congressional Redistricting on Tuesday, Aug. 24, at 9 a.m., at Ketler Auditorium in the Pew Fine Arts Center at Grove City College, and encourages the public to take part in the public process or observe the proceedings.
Aug. 09, 2021 /
WASHINGTON COUNTY – Rep. Natalie Mihalek (R-Allegheny/Washington) will hold a Women’s Vendor Expo on Friday, Aug. 20, from 9-11 a.m. at Valley Brook Country Club, located at 425 Hidden Valley Road, Canonsburg.
Aug. 05, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Natalie Mihalek (R-Allegheny/Washington) and Rep. Jesse Topper (R- Bedford/Franklin/Fulton) today announced the scheduling of a joint hearing by the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Education, chaired by Mihalek, and the House Education Committee Subcommittee on Higher Education, chaired by Topper, to review higher education funding in Pennsylvania.
Aug. 05, 2021 /
Saving Title IX in Pennsylvania
Aug. 05, 2021 /
Letter to Governor calls for collaboration, not emergency declaration
Aug. 05, 2021 /
Through 10 hearings and countless hours of work, the House State Government Committee conducted a thorough, comprehensive and nonpartisan review of our state’s election law and concerns raised by those involved in the voting process. As a result, House Bill 1300, The Pennsylvania Voting Rights Protection Act was introduced by Chairman Seth Grove. Over the next several weeks I will take an in-depth look at House Bill 1300 and why I support it.
Aug. 05, 2021 /
This week, in my second of three articles, I will explain expanded voter rights, protections and access as part of House Bill 1300. The Pennsylvania Election Code will provide electors more opportunity to vote, as well as enhanced rights and protections when casting your ballot.
Aug. 05, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – The House State Government Committee wants to hear from residents as it prepares to take its congressional redistricting hearings on the road, Rep. Seth Grove (R-York), the committee’s chairman, said.
Aug. 05, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin), a member of the Legislative Reapportionment Commission, commented Thursday on the ongoing work of the commission following two days of hearings that heard from citizens, experts, and advocacy organizations interested in state level redistricting.
Aug. 04, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – Calling it an “intrusive government overreach,” Rep. Doyle Heffley (R-Carbon) today said he does not support the recommendations of Gov. Tom Wolf’s Transportation Revenue Options Commission (TROC), which submitted its final report last week.
Aug. 04, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – The Perkasie Towne Improvement Association has received a $50,000 Keystone Communities Program (KCP) grant to update the front of local business buildings, Rep. Craig Staats (R-Bucks) announced.
Aug. 03, 2021 /
The Governor’s Transportation Revenue Options Commission (TROC) recently recommended an 8.1 cents per mile driven “fee” as a way to address the state’s $9.35 billion (and growing) annual shortfall in highway, bridge, and mass transit funding.
Aug. 03, 2021 /
WHAT: Rep. Clint Owlett (R-Tioga/Bradford/Potter) will recognize two outstanding community leaders for their contributions to the region. Owlett will present a citation to Dr. Donald Shaw, a longtime emergency medicine physician at UPMC Wellsboro who came out of retirement last year to work at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic. He will also present a signed copy of legislation, now law, that his predecessor, the former Rep. Matt Baker, had worked to develop during his time in the state House. That legislation, now Act 117 of 2020, aids in the fight against the opioid epidemic by placing the drug carfentanil on the list of Schedule II controlled substances.
Aug. 03, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – As a part of the most open and transparent congressional redistricting process in Pennsylvania history, Rep. Seth Grove (R-York), chair of the House State Government Committee, announced today that Pennsylvania residents can now submit the boundaries of their communities of interest and comment on the current congressional district map using online mapping tools now available at www.PARedistricting.com.