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House approves multiple bills on June 4, including capital budget and several professional licensure compacts
Summary
The Pennsylvania House approved a series of bills on June 4 covering the capital budget, appropriations, professional licensure compacts, consumer protections and other measures; several votes were close.
The Pennsylvania House on June 4 approved a large package of bills and resolutions on the floor, including a capital budget, several appropriations bills, professional licensure compacts and consumer-protection measures. Votes recorded on the floor produced multiple clear majorities and a number of close tallies.
Among the measures voted on and recorded in the transcript were:
- House Bill 463 (ticket resale prohibition): final passage recorded as yeas 191, nays 11. The bill prohibits resale of an event ticket by a seller who does not possess the ticket at the time of sale.
- House Bill 554 (Social Work Licensure Compact): final passage recorded as yeas 187, nays 15; would authorize Pennsylvania to join the interstate social work licensure compact.
- House Bill 668 (National Counseling Compact): final passage recorded as yeas 186, nays 16; would authorize Pennsylvania to join the counseling compact to ease cross-state licensure for counselors.
- House Bill 704 (Neurodegenerative Disease Research Program): final passage recorded as yeas 197, nays 5; establishes grants for neurodegenerative disease research in Pennsylvania.
- House Bill 1089 (coal-tar asphalt sealant ban): final passage recorded in the transcript as a narrow margin (record shows yeas 102, nays 100); the bill would prohibit sale, supply or application of coal-tar based asphalt sealants on driveways and parking lots.
- House Bill 1332 / 13 32 (Capital Budget FY 2025–2026): final passage recorded as yeas 184, nays 18; provides for the capital budget for fiscal year 2025–2026.
- A set of appropriation bills and related measures (final recorded votes): HB 13 33 (yeas 155, nays 47), HB 13 34 (yeas 160, nays 42), HB 13 35 (yeas 168, nays 34), HB 13 36 (yeas 157, nays 45), HB 13 37 (yeas 157, nays 45), HB 13 38 (yeas 154, nays 48), HB 13 40 (yeas 102, nays 100), and HB 14 20 (yeas 157, nays 45). These bills make appropriations across multiple departments and funds as recited on the floor.
- House Resolution 192 (Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week): adopted, ayes 189, nays 13.
Several other bills were called, agreed to, or recommitted without extended floor debate and without recorded roll-call tallies in the floor transcript; the clerk read titles and brief descriptions before the House approved or agreed to many measures by voice or unanimous consent. Where the transcript recorded specific roll-call tallies, those numbers are listed above.
All recorded final-passage tallies in this roundup were announced by the clerk on the House floor and are included as the official House-recorded totals from the June 4 session day. Bills that passed will be presented to the Senate for concurrence where constitutionally required.
