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Votes at a glance: House passes a slate of bills including budget concurrence, consumer protections and education funding measures
Summary
On July 12 the Pennsylvania House recorded votes on multiple Senate and House bills — including concurrence on the general appropriations bill (HB2400), towing penalties (SB779), removal of HIV-related felony enhancements from prostitution laws (SB45), and education and school funding packages — with most measures passing by recorded tallies.
The Pennsylvania House on July 12 convened a series of roll-call votes on bills referred from the Senate and on House measures with Senate amendments. Below are key outcomes recorded on the floor (tallies reflect the clerk’s readouts during the session):
- Senate Bill 146 (fiscal code/appropriations language): final passage recorded yeas 188, nays 14 (Clerk readout during consideration of the fiscal-code language).
- Senate Bill 779 (penalties for unlawful towing/storage facility practices): passed, yeas 193, nays 9.
- Senate Bill 45 (removal of HIV/AIDS-specific felony enhancements from prostitution laws): passed unanimously, yeas 202, nays 0.
- Senate Bill 130 (funeral-entity notifications to county veterans affairs directors): passed unanimously, yeas 202, nays 0.
- Senate Bill 331 (cosmetology licensure compact): passed, yeas 202, nays 0.
- Senate Bill 349 (solar energy decommissioning requirements): passed, yeas 196, nays 6.
- House Resolution 580 (designating 07/18/2026 as Piping Blover Day): adopted, ayes 195, nays 7.
- Motion to recommit HB96 to Commerce Committee (procedural motion): failed, ayes 101, nays 101.
These results represent the principal floor vote tallies announced by the Clerk during the July 12 session. The Speaker signed a set of bills prepared for presentation to the Governor after the recorded actions.
