PA Bill Number: HB1486
Title: In bonds and recognizances, providing for bail in illegal firearm offenses in city of the first class.
Description: In bonds and recognizances, providing for bail in illegal firearm offenses in city of the first class. ...
Last Action: Referred to JUDICIARY
Last Action Date: May 21, 2025
Proposed Pennsylvania House Legislation HB301
Legislation Overview
Title: In preliminary provisions, further providing for special provisions applicable to limited school years; in duties and powers of board of school directors, further providing for additional schools and departments; in grounds and buildings, further providing for limitation on new applications for Department of Education approval of public school building projects; in school directors' associations and county boards of school directors, further providing for powers and duties; in intermediate units, further providing for visual services and for school safety and security enhancements; in certification of teachers, further providing for substitute teaching permit for prospective teachers and for locally issued temporary certification for substitute teachers, repealing provisions relating to permit for classroom monitors and providing for permit for classroom monitors; providing for the Educator Pipeline Support Grant Program; in pupils and attendance, further providing for compulsory education of physical defectives, for school lunch and breakfast reimbursement, for dependent children, for actual cost of tuition and maintenance of certain exceptional children in the four chartered schools for education of the deaf and the blind, for payment of cost of tuition and maintenance of certain exceptional children, for transfer of funds for transferal programs and for children under six with defective hearing and parent or guardian advised of schools, etc.; in safe schools, further providing for definitions and for Office for Safe Schools, repealing provisions relating to regulations and to reporting, further providing for policy relating to bullying and for maintenance of records and repealing provisions relating to Safe Schools Advocate in School Districts of the First Class, to standing, to enforcement and to construction of article and other laws; in school safety and security, further providing for definitions and for school safety and security committee, providing for duties of committee, further providing for School Safety and Security Grant Program, providing for Targeted School Safety Grants for Nonpublic Schools and School Entities Program, for standardized protocols, for county safe schools' collaborative and for school mental health grants for 2023-2024 school year, further providing for school safety and security coordinator training and providing for reporting and memorandum of understanding, for safe schools advocate in school districts of the first class and for enforcement; in school security, further providing for definitions, for school police officers, for annual report and for school security guards; in character education program, further providing for character education program; in community colleges, further providing for financial program and reimbursement of payments; in educational tax credits, further providing for definitions, for qualification and application by organizations and for limitations; in school districts of the first class, further providing for qualifications of principals and teachers; in funding for public libraries, providing for State aid for fiscal year 2023-2024; in reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for definitions and for payments on account of pupils enrolled in career and technical curriculums, for payments on account of courses for exceptional children, for payments to intermediate units, for assistance to school districts declared to be in financial recovery status or identified for financial watch status, for payments, for payments on account of pupil transportation, for Ready-to-Learn Block Grant and for payment of required contribution for public school employees' Social Security; in construction and renovation of buildings by school entities, further providing for applicability; providing for School Environmental Repairs Program; and making an editorial change.
Subject:
Description: An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in preliminary provisions, further providing for special provisions applicable to limited school years; in duties and powers of board of school directors, further providing for additional schools and departments; in grounds and buildings, further providing for limitation on new applications for Department of Education approval of public school building projects; in school directors' associations and county boards of school directors, further providing for powers and duties; in intermediate units, further providing for visual services and for school safety and security enhancements; in certification of teachers, further providing for substitute teaching permit for prospective teachers and for locally issued temporary certification for substitute teachers, repealing provisions relating to permit for classroom monitors and providing for permit for classroom monitors; providing for the Educator Pipeline Support Grant Program; in pupils and attendance, further providing for compulsory education of physical defectives, for school lunch and breakfast reimbursement, for dependent children, for actual cost of tuition and maintenance of certain exceptional children in the four chartered schools for education of the deaf and the blind, for payment of cost of tuition and maintenance of certain exceptional children, for transfer of funds for transferal programs and for children under six with defective hearing and parent or guardian advised of schools, etc.; in safe schools, further providing for definitions and for Office for Safe Schools, repealing provisions relating to regulations and to reporting, further providing for policy relating to bullying and for maintenance of records and repealing provisions relating to Safe Schools Advocate in School Districts of the First Class, to standing, to enforcement and to construction of article and other laws; in school safety and security, further providing for definitions and for school safety and security committee, providing for duties of committee, further providing for School Safety and Security Grant Program, providing for Targeted School Safety Grants for Nonpublic Schools and School Entities Program, for standardized protocols, for county safe schools' collaborative and for school mental health grants for 2023-2024 school year, further providing for school safety and security coordinator training and providing for reporting and memorandum of understanding, for safe schools advocate in school districts of the first class and for enforcement; in school security, further providing for definitions, for school police officers, for annual report and for school security guards; in character education program, further providing for character education program; in community colleges, further providing for financial program and reimbursement of payments; in educational tax credits, further providing for definitions, for qualification and application by organizations and for limitations; in school districts of the first class, further providing for qualifications of principals and teachers; in funding for public libraries, providing for State aid for fiscal year 2023-2024; in reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for definitions and for payments on account of pupils enrolled in career and technical curriculums, for payments on account of courses for exceptional children, for payments to intermediate units, for assistance to school districts declared to be in financial recovery status or identified for financial watch status, for payments, for payments on account of pupil transportation, for Ready-to-Learn Block Grant and for payment of required contribution for public school employees' Social Security; in construction and renovation of buildings by school entities, further providing for applicability; providing for School Environmental Repairs Program; and making an editorial change.
Session: 2023-2024 Regular Session
Last Action: Act No. 33 of 2023
Last Action Date: December 13, 2023
Sponsors
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23 sponsors: Patrick Harkins (D); Stephen Samuelson (D); Stephen Kinsey (D); Joseph Hohenstein (D); Michael Schlossberg (D); Carol Hill-Evans (D); Joseph Ciresi (D); Ben Sanchez (D); Dan Williams (D); Eddie Pashinski (D); Maureen Madden (D); Ed Neilson (D); Perry Warren (D); John Galloway (D); Steven Malagari (D); Robert Freeman (D); Michael Sturla (D); Emily Kinkead (D); Napoleon Nelson (D); Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz (D); Benjamin Waxman (D); Joseph Webster (D); Tarik Khan (D)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Dec 13, 2023 | Re-reported on concurrence, as amended with Prior Printer's No. 2311 |
| House | Dec 13, 2023 | Act No. 33 of 2023 |
| House | Dec 13, 2023 | Approved by the Governor |
| House | Dec 13, 2023 | Presented to the Governor |
| House | Dec 13, 2023 | Signed in Senate |
| House | Dec 13, 2023 | Signed in House |
| House | Dec 13, 2023 | House concurred in Senate amendments to House amendments, as amended by the Senate (175-28) |
| House | Dec 13, 2023 | Re-reported on concurrence, as committed |
| House | Dec 13, 2023 | Referred to RULES |
| House | Dec 13, 2023 | In the House |
| Senate | Dec 13, 2023 | Senate concurred in House amendments to Senate amendments, as amended by the Senate (43-7) |
| Senate | Dec 11, 2023 | Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS |
| House | Nov 15, 2023 | In the House |
| Senate | Nov 15, 2023 | Third consideration and final passage (45-5) |
| House | Nov 15, 2023 | Referred to RULES |
| House | Nov 15, 2023 | Amended in House Committee on RULES |
| House | Nov 15, 2023 | Re-reported on concurrence, as amended |
| House | Nov 15, 2023 | House concurred in Senate amendments, as amended by the House (102-101) |
| Senate | Nov 15, 2023 | In the Senate |
| Senate | Nov 14, 2023 | Re-reported as amended |
| Senate | Jun 7, 2023 | Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS |
| Senate | Jun 7, 2023 | Second consideration |
| Senate | Jun 6, 2023 | First consideration |
| Senate | Jun 6, 2023 | Reported as committed |
| Senate | May 3, 2023 | Referred to EDUCATION |
| House | Apr 26, 2023 | Third consideration and final passage (201-0) |
| Senate | Apr 26, 2023 | In the Senate |
| House | Apr 26, 2023 | Re-reported as committed |
| House | Apr 25, 2023 | Second consideration, with amendments |
| House | Apr 25, 2023 | Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS |
| House | Apr 24, 2023 | Removed from table |
| House | Apr 21, 2023 | First consideration |
| House | Apr 21, 2023 | Laid on the table |
| House | Apr 21, 2023 | Reported as amended |
| House | Mar 10, 2023 | Referred to EDUCATION |
Texts
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