HARRISBURG – State Rep. Andrea Verobish (R-Blair) offered an amendment to House Bill 2300, a measure that would allow the Department of Revenue to mandate a real-time tax collection software for the Commonwealth’s businesses. Verobish’s amendment made two changes.
HARRISBURG – Rep. Doyle Heffley (R-Carbon) Republican chair of the House Human Services Committee announced the committee held a voting meeting Wednesday and unanimously approved legislation designed to make Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits more secure.
HARRISBURG—The Pennsylvania House Republican Policy Committee convened its sixth hearing examining childcare affordability and accessibility challenges facing families, providers, employers, and communities across the Commonwealth before lawmakers unveiled a 14-bill package designed to improve affordability, expand access, and support childcare providers.
HARRISBURG – The House today passed legislation authored by Reps. Jason Ortitay (R-Washington/Allegheny) and Joe Ciresi (D-Montgomery) to create a campaign to educate Pennsylvanians about the potential benefits and risks of artificial intelligence (AI).
HARRISBURG – Rep. Bryan Cutler (R-Peach Bottom) celebrated the passage of House Bill 69 today, by a unanimous vote.
HARRISBURG – State Rep. Jamie Walsh (R-Luzerne) is a co-sponsor of a legislative package designed to address the childcare crisis in Pennsylvania.
HARRISBURG – Connecting inflation relief with America’s 250th birthday celebration, Rep. Eric Davanzo (R-Westmoreland) today announced a proposal to offer $250 birthday checks to Pennsylvania families.
HARRISBURG – Rep. Craig Williams (R-Delaware/Chester) joined House Republican Leader Jesse Topper (R-Bedford/Fulton) at a press conference today to push for advancement of the Pennsylvania Electricity Ratepayer Protection Act. The legislation will reverse the conditions for rising electricity costs, prevent data center infrastructure costs from reaching ratepayers and increase electricity generation across Pennsylvania.
HARRISBURG – In order to put families in the driver’s seat to make critical decisions, Reps. Robert Leadbeter (R-Columbia) and Kate Klunk (R-York) are teaming up to introduce legislation that would give parents and providers more power in improving the state of childcare in the Commonwealth.
HARRISBURG – Forty-three state representatives, including Rep. Scott Barger (R-Blair/Huntingdon), signed a pledge saying they will not vote for, support or advance any state budget that drains the Rainy Day Fund established in 2002 to address emergencies.
HARRISBURG – Rep. Marla Brown (R-Lawrence) released the following statement regarding her stance on data center development in Pennsylvania:
HARRISBURG – Bills authored by Rep. Tom Mehaffie (R-Dauphin) in support of teachers and healthcare workers passed their respective committees today.
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania House Republican Policy Committee, chaired by Rep. David H. Rowe (R-Snyder/Union/Mifflin/Juniata), has concluded a three-part hearing series on expanding homeownership, workforce housing shortages, and the growing barriers facing Pennsylvania families and communities.
HARRISBURG – Republican chair of the House Human Services Committee, Rep. Doyle Heffley (R-Carbon) supports legislation that would cut down on the theft of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
HARRISBURG – Rep. Jason Ortitay (R-Washington/Allegheny) and Rep. Justin Fleming (D-Dauphin) today introduced House Bill 2541, the Keystone Literacy Investment Tax Credit, a bipartisan plan to fund the implementation of Pennsylvania’s landmark structured literacy law without raising taxes or adding new spending to the state budget.
HARRISBURG – Sen. Jarrett Coleman (R-Bucks/Lehigh) and Rep. Jamie Walsh (R-Luzerne) have introduced a package of bills in the Senate and the House of Representatives to repeal the tax break being given to data centers to locate in Pennsylvania and allowing municipalities to place a moratorium on data center development applications.
HARRISBURG – Rep. Jill Cooper (R-Westmoreland) and other state lawmakers, education leaders and policy staff convened this month at two Rested and Ready virtual forums to advance an ongoing statewide conversation on adolescent sleep health and school start times. The forum included a focus on House Bill 2152, a first-of-its-kind proposal designed to financially incentivize school districts to adopt later secondary school start times aligned with adolescent sleep science.
HARRISBURG – To address the concerns with a court ruling regarding stormwater fees assessed by local governments, Rep. Jill Cooper (R-Westmoreland) today introduced legislation to examine the topic further.
HARRISBURG – Rep. Jill Cooper (R-Westmoreland) today issued the following statement in response to recent reports of violent threats targeting Pennsylvania elected officials:
ERIE COUNTY – To address a major market disruption impacting dozens of family farms along the Erie Grape Belt and support farmers facing these interruptions in the future, Rep. Jake Banta (R-Erie County) has introduced legislation that would source short-term funding for farmers in agricultural emergencies.