Committee
Pennsylvania House Local Government Committee
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committee members
Jake Banta (R)
Lisa Borowski (D)
Jill Cooper (R)
Kyle Donahue (D)
Wendy Fink (R)
Justin Fleming (D)
Chair
Bob Freeman (D)
Jim Haddock (D)
Liz Hanbidge (D)
Tom Jones (R)
Carol Kazeem (D)
Roman Kozak (R)
Republican Secretary
Andrew Kuzma (R)
Dave Madsen (D)
Republican Chair
Brett Miller (R)
Brian Munroe (D)
Tarah Probst (D)
James Prokopiak (D)
Chad Reichard (R)
Alec Ryncavage (R)
Abigail Salisbury (D)
Secretary
Christina Sappey (D)
Izzy Smith-Wade-El (D)
Dane Watro (R)
Eric Weaknecht (R)
Parke Wentling (R)
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB50 | In municipal authority approval of actions, further providing for definitions. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| HB162 | In taxation, further providing for tax levies. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| HB181 | In general provisions relating to government and administration, providing for transparency of political subdivision authorities; and, in municipal authorities, providing for transparency of municipal authority. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| HB209 | In ordinances, further providing for ordinances. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/17/2025 |
| HB241 | In preemptions, providing for employer mandates by municipalities. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| HB283 | In subdivision and land development, providing for nonbuilding lots. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| HB292 | In nuisances, providing for the offense of late removal of campaign signage on public property; and imposing a penalty. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| HB314 | In county commissioners and chief clerks, further providing for meetings and for quorum and execution of official instruments. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| HB369 | In land banks, further providing for definitions. | Crossed Over | 01/27/2025 |
| HB375 | In subdivision and land development, providing for signage on subdivision or land development. | Crossed Over | 01/28/2025 |
| HB388 | Providing for water and sewer projects. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| HB393 | In taxation and finance, further providing for township and special tax levies. | Crossed Over | 01/28/2025 |
| HB418 | Providing for County Employees' Defined Contribution Plan. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| HB424 | In legal advertising, providing for redundant advertising on Internet by political subdivisions or municipal authorities; and, in open meetings, further providing for public notice. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| HB438 | Providing for removal of deceased spouse. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| HB509 | In receivership in municipalities, further providing for powers, duties and prohibited actions. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| HB510 | In receivership in municipalities, further providing for powers, duties and prohibited actions. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| HB620 | In recycling fee, further providing for recycling fee for municipal waste landfills and resource recovery facilities. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| HB636 | In disabled veterans' real estate tax exemption, further providing for duty of commission. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| HB651 | Further providing for installment payment of taxes. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| HB658 | In employees, providing for temporary police assistance in certain cities and townships. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| HB661 | In contracts, further providing for contract procedures, terms and bonds and advertising for bids. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| HB736 | In consolidated county assessment, further providing for exemptions from taxation. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| HB737 | In subjects of taxation and exemptions, further providing for exemptions from taxation. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| HB750 | In general provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in subdivision and land development, providing for local option for high impact warehouses and distribution centers. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| HB754 | Further providing for supplemental benefits. | Crossed Over | 03/03/2025 |
| HB797 | Further providing for requirements of membership, for married persons and pensions to surviving spouses and for eligibility of surviving spouses. | Crossed Over | 03/03/2025 |
| HB816 | A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, further providing for exemptions and special provisions relating to taxation. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| HB822 | Further providing for powers of an authority. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| HB855 | In general provisions relating to taxation and assessments, further providing for abatement of certain interest and penalty. | In Committee | 03/11/2025 |
| HB858 | Providing for county property contact information list; imposing duties on chief assessor; and providing for penalties. | Crossed Over | 03/11/2025 |
| HB911 | In employees, providing for law enforcement officer benefits for surviving family members. | In Committee | 03/17/2025 |
| HB937 | In coroner, further providing for fees for reports. | Crossed Over | 03/17/2025 |
| HB943 | In rates and distribution systems, further providing for valuation of acquired water and wastewater systems. | In Committee | 03/17/2025 |
| HB944 | In rates and distribution systems, further providing for valuation of acquired water and wastewater systems. | In Committee | 03/17/2025 |
| HB945 | In rates and distribution systems, repealing provisions relating to valuation of acquired water and wastewater systems. | In Committee | 03/17/2025 |
| HB946 | In rates and distribution systems, further providing for valuation of acquired water and wastewater systems. | In Committee | 03/17/2025 |
| HB973 | In general provisions relating to area government and intergovernmental cooperation, providing for Municipal Police Enhancement Consolidation Grant Program and establishing the Municipal Police Enhancement Consolidation Grant Program Fund. | In Committee | 03/19/2025 |
| HB977 | In general provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in zoning hearing bo ard and other administrative proceedings, further providing for hearings. | In Committee | 03/19/2025 |
| HB985 | Providing for an annual revenue-sharing program for municipalities relating to tax-exempt real property; establishing the Tax-exempt Property Municipal Assistance Fund; imposing powers and duties on the Department of Community and Economic Development; and making a repeal. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
| HB990 | In storm sewers and watercourses, further providing for authority of boroughs and for manner of financing work; providing for storm water management plans and facilities for incorporated towns; and, in watercourses, flood protection projects and storm water systems, further providing for establishing and changing watercourses, flood protection projects and storm water systems and for assessment of benefits and liens. | In Committee | 03/24/2025 |
| HB991 | Providing for storm water management plans and facilities. | In Committee | 03/24/2025 |
| HB1032 | A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, further providing for exemptions and special provisions. | In Committee | 03/24/2025 |
| HB1039 | Further providing for notices of taxes. | In Committee | 03/25/2025 |
| HB1048 | Providing for water and sewer projects. | Crossed Over | 03/25/2025 |
| HB1086 | In eminent domain and injury to property, further providing for restrictions as to certain property. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
| HB1119 | In disabled veterans' real estate tax exemption, further providing for exemption. | In Committee | 04/03/2025 |
| HB1146 | In taxation for public transportation, further providing for local financial support; and, in fees, further providing for fee for local use. | In Committee | 04/04/2025 |
| HB1175 | Further providing for definitions; and providing for land use regulation limited. | In Committee | 04/09/2025 |
| HB1178 | In public library code, providing for Rural Library Grant Program; and imposing duties on the Department of Education. | In Committee | 04/09/2025 |
| HB1185 | In auditors and accountants, further providing for surcharge by auditors; and, in township manager, further providing for township manager, appointment, removal, powers and duties, compensation and bond. | In Committee | 04/09/2025 |
| HB1194 | In contracts, further providing for letting contracts. | In Committee | 04/15/2025 |
| HB1195 | In vacancies in office, further providing for filling vacancies in elective borough offices. | In Committee | 04/15/2025 |
| HB1196 | In municipal authorities, further providing for method of incorporation, for municipalities withdrawing from and joining in joint authorities, for amendment of articles and for governing body. | In Committee | 04/15/2025 |
| HB1203 | In realty transfer tax, further providing for excluded transactions. | In Committee | 04/15/2025 |
| HB1204 | In rural State highway system and State highways in cities, boroughs and towns, further providing for improvement, reconstruction and maintenance. | In Committee | 04/15/2025 |
| HB1211 | Providing for the voluntary dissolution of the existing form of governance of a municipal corporation located in a county of the second class and the creation of unincorporated districts of counties of the second class; authorizing the county to assume responsibility for the governance of the municipal corporation and delivery of public services to the citizens residing in the municipal corporation through the administration of an unincorporated district; authorizing unincorporated district advi | In Committee | 04/15/2025 |
| HB1282 | Imposing a duty on municipal corporations to provide notification to property owners of changes to special flood hazard area maps of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. | Crossed Over | 04/22/2025 |
| HB1289 | Providing for 2026 special ad hoc municipal police and firefighter postretirement adjustment; in financing of special ad hoc adjustment, providing for reimbursement by Commonwealth for 2026 special ad hoc adjustment; in administrative provisions, further providing for municipal retirement system certification of adjustments paid and of reimbursable amounts and for municipal receipt of reimbursement payment; and making an editorial change. | In Committee | 04/23/2025 |
| HB1291 | In general provisions, further providing for definitions; in legal advertising, further providing for level of advertising rates and for no unauthorized advertisements to be published and providing for publication in newspapers of general circulation; and making editorial changes. | In Committee | 04/23/2025 |
| HB1294 | Further providing for credit for military service. | In Committee | 04/23/2025 |
| HB1308 | Providing for storm water management; and, in municipal authorities, further providing for definitions and for purposes and powers. | In Committee | 04/28/2025 |
| HB1318 | In associations and organizations, further providing for county and regional associations of boroughs. | Crossed Over | 04/28/2025 |
| HB1320 | A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, further providing for removal of civil officers. | In Committee | 04/28/2025 |
| HB1446 | Authorizing local taxing authorities to provide for tax exemptions for improvements and redevelopment of certain underutilized property ; establishing the Economic Development and Mixed-Use Re development Advisory Committee within the State Planning Board; and conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of Community and Economic Development. | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| HB1459 | Providing for multiple-unit dwelling zoning ordinances. | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| HB1485 | Further providing for death benefits and for definitions; and making an editorial change. | In Committee | 05/21/2025 |
| HB1532 | In general provisions, further providing for definitions; in comprehensive plan, providing for municipal specific plans; and, in intergovernmental cooperative planning and implementation agreements, further providing for specific plans. | Crossed Over | 05/30/2025 |
| HB1560 | Establishing the Municipal Grant Assistance Program and the Municipal Grant Assistance Program Fund; and imposing duties on the Department of Community and Economic Development. | In Committee | 06/05/2025 |
| HB1584 | Further providing for purchase of agricultural conservation easements. | In Committee | 06/10/2025 |
| HB1651 | In election of officers and vacancies in office, further providing for vacancies in general. | Crossed Over | 06/24/2025 |
| HB1658 | Further providing for title of act; repealing provisions relating to fee schedule; providing for definitions and for fees for recordation of documents; further providing for County Records Improvement Fund and for county demolition fund; and making repeals. | In Committee | 06/25/2025 |
| HB1660 | Further providing for definitions; and providing for prohibition of water fluoridation. | In Committee | 06/25/2025 |
| HB1664 | Providing for the redevelopment of historic and older buildings; and establishing the Historic and Older Building Redevelopment Assistance Grant Program and the Historic and Older Building Redevelopment Fund. | In Committee | 06/25/2025 |
| HB1685 | Further providing for powers and duties of county departments of health and providing for exception for abatement of asbestos or other similar material. | In Committee | 07/01/2025 |
| HB1713 | Further providing for definitions. | In Committee | 07/10/2025 |
| HB1720 | In auditors and accountants, further providing for completion, filing and publication of annual township report and financial statement. | In Committee | 07/14/2025 |
| HB1725 | Further providing for eligibility for receipt of funds relating to recycled asphalt in mixed use design on road or street maintenance. | In Committee | 07/14/2025 |
| HB1727 | In corporate powers, further providing for care of memorials. | In Committee | 07/14/2025 |
| HB1738 | In corporate power relating to boroughs, further providing for specific powers; in veterans' affairs relating to boroughs, further providing for care and erection of memorials; in corporate powers relating to third class cities, providing for control, maintenance and repair of memorials; and, in veterans' affairs relating to third class cities, further providing for care of memorials. | In Committee | 07/16/2025 |
| HB1764 | In subdivision and land development, providing for potentially impacted municipalities and further providing for approval of plats and for completion of improvements or guarantee thereof prerequisite to final plat approval; providing for developments of regional significance and impact; and, in zoning hearing board and other administrative proceedings, further providing for jurisdiction. | In Committee | 07/24/2025 |
| HB1765 | In employees, providing for insurance benefits for part-time police officers. | In Committee | 08/04/2025 |
| HB1777 | In local organizations and services, further providing for general authority of political subdivisions; and, in general provisions relating to government and administration, further providing for scope of subchapter, providing for definitions, further providing for establishment and designation, providing for emergency meetings by authorized telecommunications device, repealing provisions relating to exercise of powers and functions, further providing for declaration of policy and for definition | In Committee | 09/29/2025 |
| HB1787 | In powers and duties of elected officials, further providing for completion, filing and publication of auditor's report and financial statement; and, in accounts and finances, further providing for annual reports, publication, filing report with Department of Community and Economic Development and penalty. | In Committee | 08/10/2025 |
| HB1836 | Consolidating the First Class Township Code; and making a repeal. | In Committee | 09/04/2025 |
| HB1856 | In roads, streets, bridges and highways, providing for mowing operations. | In Committee | 09/10/2025 |
| HB1875 | In finance and taxation, further providing for tax levies. | In Committee | 09/23/2025 |
| HB1876 | Further providing for vacancies in elected offices in cities of the first class, cities of the second class, cities of the second class A and cities of the third class; in county commissioners and chief clerks, further providing for election and vacancies; and making repeals. | In Committee | 09/25/2025 |
| HB1893 | In taxation and finance, further providing for tax levy. | In Committee | 09/29/2025 |
| HR118 | Designating the week of April 14 through 18, 2025, as "Local Government Week" and April 16, 2025, as "Local Government Day" in Pennsylvania. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/13/2025 |
| HR136 | Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study and establish an advisory committee to determine the impact on Pennsylvania taxpayers of Pennsylvania State Police full or partial police services for municipalities that do not maintain full police coverage. | In Committee | 03/19/2025 |
| HR173 | Urging the Congress of the United States to establish the National Infrastructure Bank. | In Committee | 04/03/2025 |
| HR210 | Recognizing the week of May 18 through 24, 2025, as "National Public Works Week" in Pennsylvania. | In Committee | 04/28/2025 |
| HR212 | Recognizing the week of May 18 through 24, 2025, as "Public Works Week" in Pennsylvania. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/28/2025 |
| SB764 | In alteration of territory or corporate entity and dissolution, further providing for conduct of referenda and for court review of transitional plan. | Crossed Over | 06/24/2025 |
| SB780 | In uses of property, providing for encampments. | Crossed Over | 06/25/2025 |