Sep. 21, 2021 /
HARRISBURG—Rep. Todd Stephens (R-Montgomery) joined a bipartisan majority of House legislators in passing House Resolution 139 to extend Gov. Tom Wolf’s disaster emergency after the remnants of Hurricane Ida damaged homes and businesses due to flooding rains and tornado.
Sep. 21, 2021 /
MONTROSE – Today, Rep. Jonathan Fritz (R- Susquehanna/Wayne) announced the dates for his upcoming Concealed Carry Castle Doctrine Seminar, which he his co-hosting with Rep. Tina Pickett (R-Bradford/Sullivan/Susquehanna), and Senior Expo which he is co-hosting with Salvation Army Ladore.
Sep. 21, 2021 /
HARRISBURG ¬– Rep. Dawn Keefer’s (R-Dillsburg) Shawn’s Law (House Bill 184), to hold accountable people who instruct, cause or solicit another person to take his or her own life, is going to the governor for his signature after being approved by the House on concurrence today.
Sep. 21, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) on Tuesday voted in support of House Resolution 139, which would extend the provisions of Gov. Tom Wolf’s Aug. 31 disaster emergency declaration relative to the aftereffects of Tropical Storm Ida.
Sep. 21, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) on Tuesday voted in support of an amendment to House Bill 1774 that would allow for increased information sharing between departments of material from the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program as a tool to help the Commonwealth combat the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic.
Sep. 21, 2021 /
What was America like in 1937? Slower-paced, to be sure. Less than half of us owned cars. Boarding a plane and traveling from New York to Los Angeles in a few hours was basically unheard of.
Sep. 21, 2021 /
HARRISBURG—Reps. Todd Stephens (R-Montgomery) and Jennifer O’Mara (D-Delaware) marked Suicide Prevention Month by announcing they will reintroduce legislation to create Extreme Risk Protective Orders (ERPO) as a way to reduce suicides in Pennsylvania.
Sep. 21, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – State Rep. Jim Struzzi (R-Indiana) is cosponsoring and supporting legislation that would give his constituents and residents in rural communities throughout Pennsylvania access to high-speed internet service.
Sep. 21, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) on Tuesday morning voted in support of a resolution offered by Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward (R-Westmoreland) during a meeting of the Legislative Reapportionment Commission that would put additional guidelines on how prisoner reallocation data is to be compiled and counted by, among other things, ensuring that individuals incarcerated to a minimum sentence expiring after April 1, 2030, will be counted at the prison at which they reside.
Sep. 21, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Perry Stambaugh (R-Perry/Cumberland) joined two state senators last week in asking the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) to convene an investigation into the recent week-long extended telephone service outage, ongoing maintenance issues, and unreliable and inadequate service experienced by constituents who are customers of CenturyLink.
Sep. 21, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – The House on Monday voted unanimously to pass Rep. Milou Mackenzie’s (R-Lehigh/Montgomery/Northampton) House Bill 1657 as they continue to help provide further protections for children in the Commonwealth.
Sep. 20, 2021 /
HARRISBURG- A bill that would amend Title 67 (Public Welfare) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statues involving provisions related to adoption opportunities, family finding and kinship care, passed the House of Representatives on Monday, the bill was sponsored by Children and Youth Chairman Rep. Sheryl Delozier (R-Cumberland).
Sep. 20, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – Continuing his commitment to bring additional high-speed internet service to rural communities across the state, Rep. Martin Causer (R-Cameron/McKean/Potter) has introduced bipartisan legislation to commit $100 million in federal stimulus funding to the effort.
Sep. 20, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Bryan Cutler (R-Lancaster) and House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin), held a press conference Monday morning discussing the legislative agenda for the House of Representatives for the next few weeks.
Sep. 20, 2021 /
WASHINGTON COUNTY – Rep. Bud Cook (R-Washington/Fayette) has announced that his town hall meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 21, at 5:30 p.m., has been canceled due to being recalled to session.
Sep. 20, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – As a free service to the community, Rep. Tim O’Neal (R-Washington) will be holding a contactless shredding event on Saturday, Sept. 25, in Washington to give residents of the 48th Legislative District a chance to safeguard themselves against identity theft by having their personal documents securely destroyed.
Sep. 19, 2021 /
WHAT: Press conference on upcoming legislative agenda and other matters of importance.
Sep. 17, 2021 /
HARRISBURG ¬– In the few months since Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed the Pennsylvania Voting Rights Protection Act (formerly House Bill 1300), Rep. Seth Grove (R-York) reintroduced today the measure as House Bill 1800 after the governor says he now supports voter identification.
Sep. 17, 2021 /
WASHINGTON COUNTY – Rep. Bud Cook (R-Washington/Fayette) recently spoke at the Washington County commissioners monthly meeting about his newest initiative – “Come Home…GO BIG!” The initiative highlights Southwestern Pennsylvania, which consists of Washington, Fayette, Greene, Westmoreland and Allegheny counties, as the best place in the Commonwealth to live and work.
Sep. 17, 2021 /
CHADDS FORD – Rep. Craig Williams (R-Chester/Delaware) announced the opening of the Delaware County Disaster Resource Center at the Chadds Ford Township Building on Friday, Sept. 17, at 2 p.m.