Sep. 23, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Valerie Gaydos (R-Allegheny) voiced her displeasure as House Democrats voted to uphold Gov. Tom Wolf’s veto of a bill that would have allowed Pennsylvania’s local school districts to make decisions regarding fall sports and activities.
Sep. 23, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Jack Rader (R-Rader) today voted to override Gov. Tom Wolf’s veto of House Bill 2787, legislation that would ensure decisions about school sports and activities, including policies regarding spectators, are made at the local level. However, the override attempt did not garner the required two-thirds majority for passage.
Sep. 23, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Doyle Heffley (R-Carbon) today voted to override Gov. Tom Wolf’s veto of House Bill 2787, legislation that would ensure decisions about school sports and activities, including policies regarding spectators, are made at the local level. However, the override attempt did not garner the required two-thirds majority for passage. Heffley is a co-sponsor of the legislation.
Sep. 23, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – State Rep. Lynda Schlegel Culver (R-Northumberland/Snyder) today announced that the House of Representatives has failed to overturn the governor’s veto of House Bill 2787, which would allow decisions regarding school sports and spectators to be made by local school districts rather than by statewide mandate. The motion failed with a vote of 130-71, short of the 2/3 majority needed to overturn.
Sep. 23, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – After the state House effort to supersede the governor’s restrictions on high school sports fell short of the two-thirds vote necessary to override a gubernatorial veto, Rep. Kurt Masser (R-Columbia/Montour/Northumberland), who voted for the override, issued the following statement:
Sep. 23, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – Today the House concurred in Senate amendments to a bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Craig Staats (R-Bucks), which would provide much-needed relief to the owners and employees of Pennsylvania’s restaurants and taverns who have been suffering under Gov. Tom Wolf’s COVID-19 mitigation orders.
Sep. 23, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Martin Causer (R-Turtlepoint) was back in Harrisburg Wednesday working to restore some level of local control over the governor’s ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, specifically those impacting students, families and business owners.
Sep. 23, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – After voting today in Harrisburg to override the governor’s recent veto of legislation that would empower local school districts to establish health and safety standards for sports and other extracurricular activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, but watching that effort fall short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto, state Rep. Jim Cox (R-Berks/Lancaster) issued the following statement:
Sep. 23, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – State Rep. Jim Struzzi (R-Indiana) today announced that the House of Representatives has failed to overturn the governor’s veto of House Bill 2787, which would allow decisions regarding school sports and spectators to be made by local school districts rather than by statewide mandate. The motion failed with a vote of 130-71, short of the 2/3 majority needed to overturn.
Sep. 23, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – State Rep. Sue Helm (R-Dauphin/Lebanon) today announced that the House of Representatives has failed to overturn the governor’s veto of House Bill 2787, which would allow decisions regarding school sports and spectators to be made by local school districts rather than by statewide mandate. The motion failed with a vote of 130-71, short of the 2/3 majority needed to overturn.
Sep. 23, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – State Rep. David Millard (R-Columbia) today announced that the House of Representatives has failed to overturn the governor’s veto of House Bill 2787, which would allow decisions regarding school sports and spectators to be made by local school districts rather than by statewide mandate. The motion failed with a vote of 130-71, short of the 2/3 majority needed to overturn.
Sep. 23, 2020 /
SENECA – Rep. Lee James (R-Venango/Butler) issued the following statement regarding the failed veto override vote in the House of House Bill 2787, which would have allowed school districts to decide whether it’s safe to allow students to participate in extracurricular activities and spectators to attend outdoor sporting events:
Sep. 22, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – A public hearing conducted by the House Majority Policy Committee that had been scheduled to take place on Wednesday, Sept. 23, in Carbon County has been postponed, Rep. Doyle Heffley (R-Carbon) announced today. The hearing was to focus on issues related to the ongoing reevaluation study of the Francis E. Walter Dam and Reservoir by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Sep. 22, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – Today, the Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus joined with the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Caucus in an Application for Stay of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s election decision in PA Democratic Party v. Boockvar.
Sep. 22, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – Legislation that would protect living organ donors in Pennsylvania, sponsored by Rep. Tarah Toohil (R-Luzerne), was unanimously approved by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee today and now moves to the full Senate for consideration.
Sep. 22, 2020 /
KINGSTON – The House and the Senate majority Policy committees will host a joint hearing on the implementation of the Local Resource Manufacturing Tax Credit Program on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 10:30 a.m.
Sep. 22, 2020 /
WHAT: As Pennsylvania’s economy is slowly recovering and additional economic solutions are being sought, the House and Senate Majority Policy committees, along with Rep. Aaron Kaufer (R-Luzerne), will hold a joint hearing with area industrial and union leaders to discuss the economic impact and benefits of the Local Resource Manufacturing Tax Credit.
Sep. 22, 2020 /
WHAT: A section of Pa. Route 39 will receive signage naming it in honor of Mark Gaspich, a corrections officer who died at SCI Camp Hill in October 2018.
Sep. 22, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Wolf’s veto of House Bill 2787 is the latest example of his unilateral decision-making that ignores the bipartisan support for local school districts being able to make decisions about how spectators can watch school sports, according to Rep. Andrew Lewis (R-Dauphin).
Sep. 22, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Matthew Dowling (R-Fayette/Somerset) issued the following statement following Gov. Tom Wolf’s veto of House Bill 2787, which would have allowed local authorities to decide whether it was safe to allow spectators at outdoor school sporting events and to resume school extracurricular activities: