Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Duane Milne (R-Chester) voted today to fill the funding gap in education and other services that has lingered as a result of the governor’s earlier budget vetoes.
Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG—Rep. Todd Stephens (R-Montgomery) today backed a supplemental budget bill to prevent layoffs and school closures across the Commonwealth.
Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Jack Rader (R-Monroe) issued the following statement after the House voted overwhelmingly to pass Senate Bill 3, which would legalize medical marijuana in Pennsylvania. The bill would create an experimental regulatory board which would oversee the dispensing of a medicinal strain of cannabis.
Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG- Today, State Reps. Steve Mentzer (R-Lititz) and Keith Greiner (R-Upper Leacock) opposed the amended version of Senate Bill 3 in the House of Representatives. The legislation would allow for the use of medical cannabis for the treatment of several debilitating illnesses. The measure passed in the House of Representatives and now goes to the Senate for concurrence.
Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Doyle Heffley (R-Carbon) issued the following statement after the House voted to pass legislation to legalize medical marijuana in Pennsylvania:
Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Kurt A. Masser (R-Columbia/Montour/Northumberland) joined the majority of his House colleagues in voting in favor of Senate Bill 3, which as amended, would allow physicians to prescribe medical marijuana to patients with certain qualifying illnesses.
Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG — Rep. Jim Christiana (R-Beaver/Washington) today voted in favor of legislation (Senate Bill 3) that would permit the use of medical cannabis in Pennsylvania in a controlled fashion. As a concerned parent, he released the following statement explaining his support for the long-debated issue:
Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG – House Judiciary Committee Majority Chairman Rep. Ron Marsico (R-Dauphin) received overwhelming support for his changes to the medical marijuana legislation that passed through the House today.
Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG-- Rep. Nick Miccarelli (R-Delaware) joined a majority of his colleagues in passing legislation to take Pennsylvania one step closer to allowing the terminally ill and those suffering other crippling diseases to be treated with medical marijuana.
Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG – House Majority Leader Dave Reed (R-Indiana) today joined an overwhelming majority of his colleagues in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in supporting legislation to permit the controlled use of medical marijuana/cannabis in the Commonwealth. The House approved an amended version of Senate Bill 3 by a vote of 149-43. The bill now heads back to the Senate for concurrence.
Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. William F. Adolph, chairman of the board of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA), issued the following statement on the funding for grants for students contained in House Bill 1801:
Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG – A resolution sponsored by Rep. Tarah Toohil (R-Luzerne), recognizing March as “Intellectual Disabilities Awareness Month” in Pennsylvania, today was unanimously adopted by the House of Representatives.
Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG—Rep. Todd Stephens (R-Montgomery) introduced a House resolution—House Resolution 743-- to declare March 2016 “Keith Valley Challenge Month” in Pennsylvania.
Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. David Parker (R-Monroe) at a Capitol press conference today announced his legislation, House Bill 1835, which would amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to create a citizen commission to draw legislative and Congressional redistricting maps with updated standards. It would be a more open, transparent process and produce a more inclusive, fair result. Parker’s bill also ensures that no county would ever be carved up into six senate districts as Monroe County was in 2001.
Mar. 16, 2016 /
HARRISBURG – Legislation, sponsored by Rep. Seth Grove (R-York) to help enhance public safety was approved in the House Finance Committee today. House Bill 176 would provide grants to eligible police departments across the Commonwealth to defray costs for: vehicle purchases, camera purchases, speed timing devices, training, personnel costs and community law enforcement efforts. The legislation would further clarify of a previous grant program, which authorized the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board to award similar grants under the Local Law Enforcement Grant program.
Mar. 15, 2016 /
WHAT: A bipartisan, bicameral group of state lawmakers at a Capitol news conference tomorrow to discuss its efforts to reform the way Pennsylvania congressional and state legislative district boundaries are drawn.
Mar. 15, 2016 /
HARRISBURG – The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee today conducted an informational meeting concerning legislation authored by Rep. Garth Everett (R-Lycoming/Union) that would, if enacted, protect natural gas royalty owners from unjustified post-production cost deductions. House Bill 1391 is also co-sponsored by Reps. Sandra Major (R-Susquehanna/Wayne), Matt Baker (R-Bradford/Potter/Tioga), Tina Pickett (R-Bradford/Sullivan/Susquehanna) and Karen Boback (R-Lackawanna/Luzerne/Wyoming).
Mar. 15, 2016 /
HARRISBURG – Legislation to ensure the independence of the inspector general role moved closer to final passage by earning approval in the Pennsylvania Senate’s State Government Committee, according to the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Mindy Fee (R-Manheim).
Mar. 15, 2016 /
HARRISBURG – Programs supporting the state’s agriculture industry are nearing a crisis without the tens of millions of dollars in state funding vetoed by Gov. Tom Wolf in December. That was the message from nearly a dozen testifiers at a joint hearing of the House and Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs committees, said Rep. Martin Causer (R-Turtlepoint), chair of the House committee.
Mar. 15, 2016 /
HARRISBURG—Reps. John Taylor (R-Philadelphia) and William Keller (D-Philadelphia) have introduced legislation to allow Philadelphia to alter the way it taxes real estate to reduce the city’s wage and business privilege taxes.