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Agreed-to measures with brief floor action (summary as read by the clerk or with minimal remarks):
- House Resolution 212 (recognizing Public Works Week, May 18–24, 2025) — adopted (ayes 200, nays 3).
- House Resolution 225 (floored; adopted on roll call as entered in the journal) — adopted (recorded totals in journal: ayes 166, nays 37 as recorded for an earlier resolution).
- House Bill 359 — expands eligible projects for tax increment financing districts — agreed to on the floor (no final roll-call total provided in transcript excerpt).
- House Bill 393 — amends second-class township code for fire and emergency service special-purpose taxes — agreed to on the floor (no final roll-call total in transcript excerpt).
- House Bill 646 — titled as an amendment to Title 75 (prohibiting misuse of hearing impairment devices) — agreed to on the floor (no final roll-call total in transcript excerpt).
- House Bill 721 — strengthens construction workplace misclassification act — passed final passage (journal recorded ayes 113, nays 90 as read by clerk).
- House Bill 1030 — designated in the calendar as naming Hershey Kisses the state candy — passed (journal recorded ayes 150, nays 53 as read by clerk).
- House Bill 67 (supplemental calendar A) — ensures residents in condominiums/coops/community associations the right to dry clothes outside — final passage recorded (ayes 128, nays 75).
- House Bill 309 — expands medical license exemption for traveling team physicians — final passage recorded (journal entries indicate passage, no detailed floor roll call in excerpt).

Other referrals and committee reports read on the floor (no extended debate recorded in the excerpt): multiple committee reports were offered and the clerk read referrals to committees for a list of bills and resolutions (see journal for full referral list).

Ending: These items were handled with limited floor debate; for bills that were reprinted or referred for further action the reprinted text and committee reports will control next steps.

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Representative Bonner argued the measure is unconstitutional because it strengthens no-excuse mail-in voting and, in his view, conflicts with multiple provisions of the Pennsylvania Constitution that he said require in-person voting or specific voter-authorized absentee processes. Bonner recounted earlier judicial rulings and argued that expansion of mail balloting should be decided by a public referendum.

Supporters, including the Speaker, said the legislation improves election administration by permitting pre-canvassing, clarifying mail and provisional ballot curing, establishing permanent mail-ballot lists, requiring prepaid postage, and expanding secure ballot drop-box access. The speaker described the bill as a way to provide uniformity and improved administration for county election officials.

After floor debate and member remarks, the clerk recorded ayes 102 and nays 101 on final passage. The bill passed the House and will be presented to the Senate for concurrence.

Ending: HB 13 96 passed the House on a recorded vote; given the constitutional arguments raised on the floor, further judicial or Senate review may follow as the bill proceeds.

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Representative Mullins, the bill’s sponsor, said the bill will expand retirement access to roughly 44% of working Pennsylvanians who currently lack employer-sponsored plans and argued it reduces long-term reliance on safety-net programs. Opponents, including Representative Rossi, described the proposal as an unwarranted government intrusion on small businesses that would impose administrative burdens and create a state-run program with an advisory board and multiple funds.

On final passage, the clerk recorded ayes 102 and nays 101. The bill passed the House and will be sent to the Senate for consideration.

Ending: HB 12,63 passed the House on a narrow recorded vote; next steps include Senate consideration and administrative design if enacted.

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Representative Heffley offered amendment a00649, an agreed-to change that requires the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) to prioritize grant applications requesting non‑narcotic medication-assisted treatment and to make reasonable efforts to distribute funds in a timely manner. The amendment was adopted on a recorded vote (ayes 203, nays 0) after the sponsor and members stated the amendment was agreed to.

Additional agreed-to amendments removed Medicaid-related implementation language and adjusted program administration; those amendments were accepted by voice and recorded votes (the transcript records ayes 203, nays 0 for some adopted amendments). Two amendments were ruled out of order for violation of House Rule 20 (single subject rule); Representative Kephart appealed those rulings. The appeals to the chair’s rulings were put to a vote and the House sustained the chair’s rulings (the clerk recorded ayes 102, nays 101 on the appeals, leaving the rulings in place as the judgment of the House). Representative Madden, the bill’s prime sponsor, described the agreed-to amendments as preserving the original intent of the grant program while allowing counties flexibility to serve inmate populations.

After amendment votes and procedural appeals, the House agreed to the bill as amended; the clerk recorded the bill as agreed to and it will be reprinted consistent with floor changes.

Ending: HB 561 advanced as amended; reprinted bill will reflect the adopted amendments and proceed to the next step in the legislative process.

","House Bill 561, amending Title 61 for county participation requirements and extending medication-assisted treatment options in county programs, was advanced as amended after floor amendments and two successful challenges to rulings on amendment admissibility.",{"_33":113,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":114,"_41":115,"_43":116,"_45":117,"_47":118,"_49":119,"_51":120,"_53":121,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":122,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":123,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6561954,"House passes medical debt relief program to help low-income Pennsylvanians",700,7514000,8214000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3285365-d9991f0cf6943c274b4c526fa822a3dc&start=7514&end=8214","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3285365-d9991f0cf6943c274b4c526fa822a3dc/thumbnail_7514000.jpg","/articles/6561954/Pennsylvania/House-passes-medical-debt-relief-program-to-help-low-income-Pennsylvanians","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6561954-fa9b6bd53776a825730910de98fcb904/orig.mp4?Expires=1771164561&Signature=N2G15vO2LcVZA2tSEuvr7uKUA6N-tS7XL42m5eAz5S3p5d7DaeOi7iA0iNALEbzLZnOf57nCSBIe5d9uJoKgusxr-UAovm7phXl4tT-t8kmxNRJ1vb4neSiAWI5pZHJQ64qyGkEhJ93F9YChfP2yZYTWuR7loMhi6F4p8kM0lgJ1PCQvxoYsw5MPeYXpXqKsAoU3hCgh0o17thyglljAAOqQb2mLIsmuwp4gYgn1gu--0x8HhRXIk14B4DOu5OMmmpXwMwsUpiGylpyDVdEr3sLu93yPBG174WF3vi62yPgn7rpjAW4Muqp4ycVzuvcBDyL-Dhc~-ZjotER3D4y8PQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Pennsylvania House on May 13 passed House Bill 79, which lawmakers described on the floor as establishing a Pennsylvania medical debt repayment program to help low-income residents reduce or eliminate medical debt.

Proponents argued the program would increase access to care, free up family finances and deliver economic benefits; supporters included Representative Venkat, the bill’s prime sponsor, and Representatives Kosarowski, Davidson and Torzik, who spoke on the floor in favor of the measure. Opponents did not register a sustained floor opposition in the transcript excerpt.

Representative Venkat, the bill’s prime sponsor, framed the legislation as a targeted program to relieve medical obligations that otherwise push families into bankruptcy and impair economic recovery. Representative Kosarowski, a registered nurse, described on the floor how medical debt has affected patients she has treated and urged passage to reduce financial barriers to care. Representative Davidson emphasized cancer patients’ elevated exposure to medical debt and urged colleagues to consider the bill in that context.

The measure was put to a final roll-call vote; the clerk recorded 187 ayes and 16 nays on the final passage as reported on the floor. The bill passed the House and will be presented to the Senate for concurrence.

Ending: House Bill 79 passed the House on a recorded vote; it moves to the Senate for further consideration.

","Lawmakers approved House Bill 79 to create a medical debt repayment program aimed at reducing burdens on low-income residents; supporters said the program would improve access to care and benefit the economy, while debate emphasized screening, charity-assistance notices and return on investment.",{"_33":125,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":126,"_41":127,"_43":128,"_45":129,"_47":130,"_49":131,"_51":132,"_53":133,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":134,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":135,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6561960,"House agrees to EDGE tax package after hours of amendment votes",1224,8764000,9988000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3285365-d9991f0cf6943c274b4c526fa822a3dc&start=8764&end=9988","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3285365-d9991f0cf6943c274b4c526fa822a3dc/thumbnail_8764000.jpg","/articles/6561960/Pennsylvania/House-agrees-to-EDGE-tax-package-after-hours-of-amendment-votes","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6561960-6659b8bd2b5222f57a46b2c4854b95b9/orig.mp4?Expires=1771164561&Signature=EG36U9Se9nKAdOgDg4XuZO-c~Vs2nW7-n5E32F6mQ7cKpo9INX7F0QaZxwRPjPx-OH1kdtovqbCNZ0dQoaEdXtgTTXVtMiqEJ3GkUOLh2sv45UlUqkOd3yDLRJ-bFL~dhRAD5NAjwmqjohTV3ZKcS2MnjComhvpSwoUSVykvpNL1Ph-TMBOcuODMgctjxLFuJkvkxePkkgoV-EBITl-08ryaO86wx41YqfXmCG-29DFNlY9kwEu9X4vSABlpv8JUfiD5z8NlCDBMZcFx98JCUp5rVEwuAq452rMLeqCbfsDse8FGL1oWfn-86nSAoC-yDm~g3RAA7SsYwYwIqgQntw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Pennsylvania House on May 13 agreed to House Bill 500, an economic development tax package often referred to on the floor as the PA EDGE proposal, after adopting a series of technical and substantive amendments and rejecting several others.

Supporters said the bill would spur investment and job creation; opponents raised concerns about environmental standards, the bill’s scope and oversight. The session on HB 500 included votes on multiple amendments ranging from hydrogen and dairy-processing language to automatic sunsets and program audits.

House Bill 500 was called up from the calendar at 1:04 p.m. and debated across the afternoon. Representative Matt C. (sponsor of one floor amendment) won adoption of amendment a00691 clarifying that project facilities may either use or purchase clean hydrogen produced within the Commonwealth (vote recorded as ayes 203, nays 0). The House also adopted amendments that changed eligibility and technical definitions for the milk-processing provisions (including amendments offered by Representatives Stender and Samuelson) and a ban on pumped-storage hydropower projects with current FERC preliminary permits in a specified geographic area (amendment offered by Representative Hill Evans), each adopted on recorded votes noted on the floor.

Several attempted changes failed. Representative O’Neil offered multiple amendments that would have removed references to “clean” energy or broadened certain definitions to include any hydrogen or explicit references to natural gas; those amendments were rejected on recorded floor votes (for example, one O’Neil amendment failed with ayes 101, nays 102 as recorded on the floor). Other proposed expansions and rewrites (including a multi-part amendment proposing a major rewrite of the milk-processing tax credit and additions for digesters and farm incentives) were also rejected after debate and recorded votes.

Members debated both economic and environmental trade-offs. Representative O’Neil argued for broader inclusion of natural gas in the definition of reliable energy, citing grid reliability and PJM and Department of Energy commentary. Representative Samuelson and other members of the finance committee defended the bill’s emphasis on ‘‘clean’’ energy and said several proposed changes were not considered in committee hearings.

After the final set of votes on amendments and motions, the chair stated that the bill as amended would be reprinted. The clerk recorded the final referrals and the bill was returned to be reprinted for further processing.

Provisions adopted on the floor included clarified hydrogen language, changes to the milk-processing credit mechanics to help small and medium processors, and a provision limiting a class of pumped-storage hydropower projects in a named corridor (as offered on the floor). Several amendments that would have broadened the bill’s definition of eligible energy to include any hydrogen or remove the word “clean” were rejected.

The debate included frequent references to federal and regional energy authorities, including PJM and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Lawmakers also discussed program oversight and reporting obligations, with some members proposing periodic performance audits and automatic sunsets for credits; those proposals failed on the floor.

The House did not take a roll-call final passage vote on HB 500 during the time recorded in this transcript excerpt; the journal entry shows the bill “as amended will be reprinted.” The bill’s text and the adopted amendments will appear in the reprinted version for later legislative steps.

Ending: The bill was advanced as amended for reprinting; additional committee and calendar steps remain before final passage in both chambers and enactment.

","The Pennsylvania House on May 13 agreed to House Bill 500, a broad economic-development tax package (the PA EDGE proposal), after adopting several amendments and rejecting others amid extended debate over energy, dairy processing and oversight provisions.","actionData","errors"]

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