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Committee advances municipal planning and Buy America/Buy Union grant bills after party-line vote
Summary
The House Rules Committee advanced two bills — one authorizing municipalities to adopt specific plans that can cover residential and nonresidential development and another creating a Buy America, Buy Union grant program — on an 18-15 vote with Democrats in favor and Republicans opposed.
The Pennsylvania House Rules Committee on Thursday reported two bills to the House on a party-line vote of 18 to 15.
The committee advanced a bill described as authorizing individual municipalities to adopt specific plans that can permit both residential and nonresidential development (house bill 1532, printer's number 1904), and a bill creating a Buy America, Buy Union grant program (house bill 1540, printer's number 1811).
Democratic members voted in the affirmative and Republican members voted in the negative. An unidentified Republican member stated, "The Republicans will vote in the negative." The secretary recorded that Democrats voted in the affirmative, Republicans in the negative, and the bills passed 18 to 15.
Why it matters: the measures affect local land-use planning authority and state grant programs that could steer public procurement toward domestic and union-made goods. The committee transcript shows the bills were advanced without substantive committee debate recorded.
Next steps: the committee-reported bills move to the full House for consideration. The transcript does not record any committee amendments or further discussion.
