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House adopts amendment ensuring incremental tax revenues stay in transit revitalization districts; bill agreed to
Summary
The House adopted an amendment to House Bill 1874 requiring redevelopment authorities that receive incremental tax revenues from Transit Revitalization Investment Districts to spend those funds in the district where they were generated; the amendment was adopted unanimously by voice or recorded vote as announced and the bill was agreed to.
On Oct. 6, 2025, the Pennsylvania House considered an amendment to House Bill 1874 (printer's number 2328) governing financial flexibility for redevelopment authorities and Transit Revitalization Investment Districts (TRIDs). Representative Torczyk offered an amendment clarifying that if a redevelopment authority receives incremental tax revenues generated in a TRID, the authority must spend that money in the area from which it came.
Torczyk said bridal (transit) districts encompass a three-quarter-mile radius around a transit stop and that redevelopment authorities can cover a larger area; the amendment ensures generated incremental tax revenues are spent within the TRID. Representative Powell, sponsor of the bill, said the amendment was agreed to and urged a yes vote. The clerk recorded the vote on the amendment as ayes 203, nays 0, and announced the amendment adopted. The bill, as amended, was agreed to and will be reprinted.
The amendment limits the use of incremental tax revenues to the originating TRID and was presented as a technical clarification to match intended local spending of redevelopment revenues.
