Dec. 24, 2015 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Craig Staats (R-Bucks) released the following statement after the Senate sent House Bill 1460, a budget passed by the House on Dec. 8, to Gov. Tom Wolf’s desk. This budget includes additional education funding without broad-based tax increases.
Dec. 23, 2015 /
HARRISBURG – Speaker of the House Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny County) and House Majority Leader Dave Reed (R-Indiana County) today responded to Senate passage of House Bill 1460, a $30.3 billion spending proposal which would provide an immediate end to the state budget impasse and increase funding for PreK-12 education by $405 million.
Dec. 23, 2015 /
HARRISBURG – This evening, the Senate voted in favor of a spending plan, previously approved by the House, that protects taxpayers, while making historic investments in education. Rep. David Millard (R-Berwick) issued the following statement after the vote, which should bring an end to the state’s budget impasse:
Dec. 23, 2015 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Brian Ellis (R-Butler) urges Gov. Tom Wolf to sign House Bill 1460, a full-year state budget plan that was approved by the Senate on Wednesday afternoon.
Dec. 23, 2015 /
HARRISBURG- Members of the York County House Republican delegation urge the Gov. Tom Wolf to sign the House Bill 1460 which is the full fiscal year budget that was approved by the Senate today.
Dec. 23, 2015 /
HARRISBURG - State Reps. Matt Gabler (R-Clearfield/Elk) and Tommy Sankey
(R-Clearfield/Cambria) today released the following statement upon the Senate’s bipartisan 33-17 passage of House Bill 1460, a $30.2 billion spending proposal that would provide an immediate end to the state budget impasse. House Bill 1460 includes a $150 million increase for public schools while providing relief to taxpayers by avoiding the massive tax increases proposed by Gov. Tom Wolf.
Dec. 23, 2015 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Stephen Bloom (R-Cumberland) issued the following statement after the Senate’s bipartisan vote on the $30.2 billion spending plan passed by the House earlier this month:
Dec. 23, 2015 /
HARRISBURG – On Wednesday evening, the state Senate approved House Bill 1460, a full-year state budget plan that would spend $30.26 billion. The budget will soon be sent to Gov. Tom Wolf for his signature.
Dec. 23, 2015 /
HARRISBURG– Rep. Jason Ortitay (R-Washington/Allegheny) issued the following statement after the Senate voted to join the House in bringing an end to the state’s budget impasse:
Dec. 23, 2015 /
HARRISBURG – State Rep. Curt Sonney (R-Harborcreek) issued this statement following Senate passage of House Bill 1460, a general appropriations bill for the 2015-16 fiscal year:
Dec. 23, 2015 /
HARRISBURG– Reps. Jim Christiana(R-Beaver/Washington) and Jim Marshall (R-Beaver/Butler) issued the following statement after the Senate voted to join the House in bringing an end to the state’s budget impasse:
Dec. 23, 2015 /
HARRISBURG – House Appropriations Chairman, William F. Adolph, Jr., was encouraged by the latest developments in the General Assembly’s efforts to resolve the ongoing state budget impasse.
Dec. 23, 2015 /
Rep. Carl Walker Metzgar (R-Somerset/Bedford) today issued the following statement after the Pennsylvania Senate passed House Bill 1460, containing a state budget that adds increased funding for public schools and avoids a tax increase that cannot be afforded by working taxpayers:
Dec. 23, 2015 /
Would increase school funding to historic levels, protect taxpayers
Dec. 22, 2015 /
Saying it is time for the governor and Legislature to call a “Christmas truce,” Rep. Russ Diamond (R-Lebanon) today wrote to Gov. Tom Wolf, urging him to permit a lights-on funding package for schools and health and human services organizations expected to pass the House tomorrow to become law.
Dec. 21, 2015 /
HARRISBURG – Legislation that Rep. Steve Barrar (R-Chester/Delaware) championed was signed into law yesterday. Act 84 of 2015 will extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for two years and require insurance companies directly pay ambulance companies, rather than patients, for transport services.
Dec. 21, 2015 /
HARRISBURG – After three years of championing legislation to help children and youth who are in Pennsylvania’s foster care system live more normal lives, Rep. Dave Hickernell (R-Lancaster/Dauphin) today announced that his legislation to accomplish this has been signed into law as Act 75 of 2015.
Dec. 21, 2015 /
HARRISBURG — Legislation, initiated and spearheaded by Rep. Bernie O’Neill (R-Bucks), which addresses the reimbursement needs of emergency medical services (EMS), was signed into law Sunday, Dec. 20 by the governor.
Dec. 19, 2015 /
HARRISBURG – On Friday, the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee voted in favor of House Bill 1712, legislation sponsored by Rep. Rosemary M. Brown (R-Monroe/Pike) to establish the freestanding Private Dam Financial Assurance Act. This bill addresses an issue that was originally brought to Brown’s attention by residents of the 189th District.
Dec. 19, 2015 /
HARRISBURG – Rep. Craig Staats (R-Bucks) voted in favor of Senate Bill 1071, the Legislature’s attempt to address Pennsylvania’s public pension crisis. The bill failed by a 52-149 vote.