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Pennsylvania House Labor and Industry Committee
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committee members
Marc Anderson (R)
Scott Barger (R)
Aaron Bernstine (R)
Tim Brennan (D)
Jill Cooper (R)
Joe D'Orsie (R)
Chair
Jason Dawkins (D)
Kyle Donahue (D)
Torren Ecker (R)
Wendy Fink (R)
José Giral (D)
Republican Secretary
Barb Gleim (R)
Roni Green (D)
Republican Chair
Seth Grove (R)
Jim Haddock (D)
Mike Jones (R)
Emily Kinkead (D)
Rick Krajewski (D)
Bob Merski (D)
Dan Miller (D)
Jenn O'Mara (D)
Chad Reichard (R)
Leslie Rossi (R)
Secretary
Greg Scott (D)
Josh Siegel (D)
Regina Young (D)
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB64 | Prohibiting the penalization of employees for nonparticipation in religious or political matters; providing for notice requirements; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| HB68 | Limiting assignment of State-owned vehicles. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| HB118 | Further providing for penalties. | Crossed Over | 01/16/2025 |
| HB135 | In workers' cooperative corporations, further providing for corporations, for articles of incorporation and for directors and officers. | In Committee | 08/21/2025 |
| HB145 | In compensation, further providing for ineligibility for compensation. | Crossed Over | 08/19/2025 |
| HB160 | Further providing for definitions. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| HB161 | Further providing for definitions. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| HB183 | In liability and compensation, further providing for schedule of compensation. | Crossed Over | 01/16/2025 |
| HB186 | In determination of compensation, appeals, reviews and procedure, further providing for determination of compensation appeals and for decision of referee and further appeals and reviews. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| HB200 | Establishing the Family and Medical Leave Program, the Family and Medical Leave Fund and the Family and Medical Leave Advisory Board; conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| HB210 | Further providing for required posting. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| HB262 | In employee rights, providing for rights and privileges, for civil actions, for limitation of rights and remedies and for notice. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| HB263 | In definitions, further providing for the definition of "maintenance of membership"; in employee rights, further providing for lawful activities and providing for rights and privileges and for civil actions; and, in scope of bargaining, further providing for proper subjects of bargaining. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| HB265 | In compensation, further providing for benefits based on service for educational institutions. | Crossed Over | 01/22/2025 |
| HB274 | In compensation, providing for eligibility related to domestic violence. | Crossed Over | 01/22/2025 |
| HB288 | Providing for construction tax credit requirements. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| HB308 | Providing for workplace health and safety standards for public employees; providing for powers and duties of the Secretary of Labor and Industry; establishing the Pennsylvania Occupational Safety and Health Review Board; providing for workplace inspections; and imposing penalties. | Crossed Over | 01/23/2025 |
| HB318 | In compensation, further providing for ineligibility for compensation. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| HB323 | In general provisions relating to nonprofit corporations, providing for eligibility for receipt of State resources. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| HB367 | Providing for employee's right to request a flexible working arrangement; imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| HB371 | In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in keystone opportunity zones, further providing for qualified businesses. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| HB382 | In tax credit and tax benefit administration, further providing for definitions and for application and administration. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| HB421 | Protecting workers from training repayment agreement provisions; conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| HB455 | Providing for grants to organizations that host or offer education, workforce training or skills development to young adults; establishing the Building a Better Future Grant Program; imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry; and making an appropriation. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| HB466 | In definitions, further providing for definitions; and, in scope of bargaining, providing for political contributions. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| HB470 | Providing for meal breaks or rest periods for employees; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| HB519 | In training and certification of inspectors, further providing for training of inspectors. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| HB551 | Providing for paid leave time for a pregnancy loss or related reason; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 02/11/2025 |
| HB560 | Providing for pay ranges. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| HB567 | Providing for assumption of employment relationship, for terms of yearly employment contract, for prohibition on waivers or limitations of employment protections, for elements of wrongful discharge, for remedies for wrongful discharge and for probationary period of employment. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| HB569 | Further providing for title of act; and adding provisions relating to coroners. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| HB590 | In administration of act, providing for emergency unemployment compensation assistance. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| HB594 | Further providing for definitions; providing for use of automated employment decision tool; and further providing for civil penalties. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| HB610 | In public works employment verification, further providing for definitions, for duty of public works contractors and subcontractors, for verification form, for violations, for enforcement and sanctions, for Public Works Employment Verification Account, for protection from retaliation, for good faith immunity and for public works contractor and subcontractor liability; and making an editorial change. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| HB619 | Providing for employee voter leave. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| HB630 | Further providing for definitions and for wage rates; providing for additional violations; further providing for powers of secretary, for collection of unpaid wages, for records and reporting and for penalties; and establishing the Equal Pay Enforcement Fund. | Crossed Over | 03/03/2025 |
| HB637 | Establishing the Youth Summer Employment Grant Program and the Youth Summer Employment Fund; and authorizing regulations. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| HB667 | In professional employees, providing for restrictions on administrative meetings during instructional time or planning periods. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| HB677 | Further providing for powers and duties; providing for supervision; and abrogating a regulation. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| HB678 | Providing for the registration of labor brokers; imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry and the Secretary of Labor and Industry; establishing the Labor Broker Registration Account; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| HB715 | Further providing for penalties. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| HB716 | Further providing for notification; providing for duty of employer; and imposing criminal and civil penalties. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| HB718 | Further providing for definitions; providing for duty of department to report and for investigations; further providing for civil remedies and penalties, for liquidated damages and for criminal penalties; providing for employer liability; and establishing the Wage Enforcement Fund. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| HB721 | Further providing for definitions, for improper classification of employees and for criminal penalties; providing for private right of action; further providing for administrative penalties, for retaliation for action prohibited, for availability of information, for use of penalty funds and for funding; and imposing penalties. | Crossed Over | 02/25/2025 |
| HB777 | In preliminary provisions, providing for minimum hourly wage or living wage for education support professionals; in duties and powers of boards of school directors, further providing for majority vote required and recording; and imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| HB805 | Further providing for administration and for penalties. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| HB815 | Requiring notification of employees, the Department of Labor and Industry and municipalities when mass layoffs and business closings occur; and providing for civil penalties and for powers and duties of the Department of Labor and Industry. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| HB846 | Further providing for definitions, for specifications, for prevailing wage and for duty of secretary. | Crossed Over | 03/10/2025 |
| HB863 | Providing for legal protections from abusive work environments and for remedies. | In Committee | 03/11/2025 |
| HB884 | Establishing the Four-Day Workweek Pilot Program; providing for tax credits to qualifying employers; and imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry and the Department of Revenue. | In Committee | 03/11/2025 |
| HB891 | Providing for Keystone State Apprenticeship Tax Credit; establishing the Keystone State Apprenticeship Tax Credit Program; and imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry. | In Committee | 03/13/2025 |
| HB894 | Establishing the Veterans Entering the Sustainability Sector Program and the Veterans Entering the Sustainability Sector Fund; and imposing duties on the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Community and Economic Development, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. | In Committee | 03/13/2025 |
| HB899 | Providing for the right for employees to paid sick leave from employers and for civil penalties and remedies. | In Committee | 03/13/2025 |
| HB903 | Prohibiting the employment of unauthorized employees; requiring meat packing and food preparation industry employers to verify the Social Security numbers of employees; imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 03/13/2025 |
| HB904 | Providing for school-to-work programs; establishing the CareerBound Program; providing for the CareerBound Tax Credit Program; and conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of Community and Economic Development and the Department of Labor and Industry. | In Committee | 03/13/2025 |
| HB905 | Prohibiting the employment of unauthorized employees; requiring hotel and lodging industry employers to verify the Social Security numbers of employees; imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 03/13/2025 |
| HB926 | Providing for violence prevention committees in health facilities, for duties of committees, for workplace violence reporting requirements and for powers and duties of the Department of Labor and Industry; and imposing fines and administrative penalties. | Crossed Over | 03/17/2025 |
| HB933 | Further providing for improper classification of employees, for administrative penalties, for stop-work orders, for certain agreement prohibited and for use of penalty funds. | In Committee | 03/17/2025 |
| HB939 | Further providing for definitions and for employment of minors in a performance; and providing for employment of minors as content creators. | In Committee | 03/17/2025 |
| HB964 | Providing for employment leave for victims and victims' families because of violence; prohibiting certain acts by employers; prescribing penalties; and providing for a cause of action. | In Committee | 03/19/2025 |
| HB1023 | Providing for employment in executive capacity, for employment in administrative capacity and for employment in professional capacity. | In Committee | 03/24/2025 |
| HB1029 | Further providing for definitions; providing for notice and regulations; further providing for unfair labor practices and for representatives and elections; providing for initial collective bargaining agreement; further providing for prevention of unfair labor practices and for penalties; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 03/24/2025 |
| HB1056 | Providing for criteria for independent contractors in the traveling sales industry and for the powers and duties of the Department of Labor and Industry; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 03/26/2025 |
| HB1150 | Further providing for definitions, for minimum wages and for preemption. | In Committee | 04/03/2025 |
| HB1163 | In Commonwealth services, providing for work-related hazardous duty. | In Committee | 04/07/2025 |
| HB1166 | Providing for health care worker platforms; and imposing duties on the Department of Health. | In Committee | 04/07/2025 |
| HB1181 | In liability and compensation, further providing for compensable injuries, subrogation and proration. | In Committee | 04/09/2025 |
| HB1243 | In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in contributions by employers and employees, further providing for trigger determination and for trigger rate redeterminations; in compensation, further providing for qualifications required to secure compensation, for ineligibility for compensation and for rate and amount of compensation; in determination of compensation, appeals, reviews and procedure, further providing for determination of compensation appeals; in Unemployment Comp | In Committee | 04/17/2025 |
| HB1255 | A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing for workers' rights. | In Committee | 04/17/2025 |
| HB1259 | In source selection and contract formation, providing for additional qualifications for public work projects; imposing duties on the Office of State Inspector General; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 04/17/2025 |
| HB1292 | In Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority, further providing for grant applications and process. | In Committee | 04/23/2025 |
| HB1321 | In Pennsylvania National Guard, Pennsylvania Guard and militia, providing for leaves of absence for military spouses, for anti-retaliation protection and for employment protection. | In Committee | 04/28/2025 |
| HB1349 | In administrative practice and procedure, providing for project labor agreement. | In Committee | 04/30/2025 |
| HB1358 | In hotels, providing for protection of hotel employees; and imposing penalties. | Crossed Over | 04/30/2025 |
| HB1483 | In licenses and regulations and liquor, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages, further providing for unlawful acts relative to liquor, malt and brewed beverages and licensees. | In Committee | 05/21/2025 |
| HB1521 | Further providing for disability benefits and for definitions. | In Committee | 05/30/2025 |
| HB1540 | Establishing the Buy America, Buy Union Grant Program and the Buy America, Buy Union Grant Fund; and imposing duties on the Department of Community and Economic Development. | In Committee | 06/03/2025 |
| HB1542 | In licenses and regulations and liquor, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages, further providing for unlawful acts relative to liquor, malt and brewed beverages and licensees. | In Committee | 06/03/2025 |
| HB1543 | Further providing for occupations and establishments. | In Committee | 06/03/2025 |
| HB1549 | Further providing for definitions, for minimum wages and for exemptions. | Crossed Over | 06/03/2025 |
| HB1559 | Providing for notice of electronic monitoring; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 06/05/2025 |
| HB1568 | Further providing for employees who are separated from payroll before paydays. | In Committee | 06/09/2025 |
| HB1580 | Providing for regulations for employers to protect employees from heat-related injury or heat-related illness caused by heat stress; imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry and the Secretary of Labor and Industry; establishing the Heat Protection Enforcement Fund; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 09/02/2025 |
| HB1617 | Further providing for definitions; and providing for specific liability. | In Committee | 06/16/2025 |
| HB1621 | In procedure, providing for multilingual informational addendum. | In Committee | 06/17/2025 |
| HB1676 | Establishing the Nursing Shortage Assistance Program; and imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry. | In Committee | 06/27/2025 |
| HB1687 | In compensation, further providing for rate and amount of compensation. | In Committee | 07/01/2025 |
| HB1688 | In compensation, further providing for rate and amount of compensation. | In Committee | 07/01/2025 |
| HB1690 | In compensation, further providing for qualifications required to secure compensation. | In Committee | 07/01/2025 |
| HB1691 | In compensation, further providing for qualifications required to secure compensation. | In Committee | 07/01/2025 |
| HB1692 | In contributions by employers and employees, further providing for relief from charges; and, in compensation, further providing for ineligibility for compensation and providing for eligibility related to domestic violence. | In Committee | 07/01/2025 |
| HB1726 | Further providing for definitions, for occupations and establishments, for employment of minors in a performance and for duties of employer; repealing provisions relating to work permit; and further providing for administration and for newspaper delivery. | In Committee | 07/14/2025 |
| HB1766 | In liability and compensation, further providing for schedule of compensation. | In Committee | 08/04/2025 |
| HB1785 | In liability and compensation, further providing for compensation for cancer. | In Committee | 08/10/2025 |
| HB1795 | Providing for proof of fidelity insurance and surety bonds by payroll processors; and imposing a penalty. | In Committee | 08/11/2025 |
| HB1810 | Providing for workplace violence prevention and emergency preparedness standards for retail employers and employees; imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 08/19/2025 |
| HB1825 | Further providing for powers and duties of the Commission; providing for employer policie s and procedures; and establishing the Human Relations Training Fund. | In Committee | 08/28/2025 |
| HB1826 | Further providing for definitions. | In Committee | 08/28/2025 |
| HB1855 | Requiring an employer to provide paid leave to an employee due to a climate-related emergency; establishing the Climate-related Emergency Paid Leave Fund; and imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry. | In Committee | 09/10/2025 |
| HB1879 | In scope of bargaining, further providing for proper subjects of collective bargaining. | In Committee | 09/25/2025 |
| HB1923 | Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; establishing the industry workers' rights coordinator within the Department of Labor and Industry; and providing for public health emergency protections for workers. | In Committee | 10/06/2025 |
| HR97 | Recognizing the week of May 4 through 10, 2025, as "Career and Technology Week" and recognizing May 7, 2025, as "National Skilled Trades Day" in Pennsylvania. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/03/2025 |
| HR228 | Designating July 31, 2025, as "Intern Day" in Pennsylvania. | In Committee | 05/05/2025 |
| HR245 | Designating the week of June 9 through 13, 2025, as "Union Organizing Week" in Pennsylvania, in honor of those workers who have fought for their right to organize and bargain collectively at their workplace. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 05/29/2025 |
| HR325 | Designating October 3, 2025, as "Manufacturing Day" in Pennsylvania. | In Committee | 09/25/2025 |
| SB101 | In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in local workforce development areas and regions and local workforce development boards, further providing for plan, functions and responsibilities and providing for technical assistance and data availability and for local performance accountability. | Crossed Over | 06/25/2025 |
| SB153 | In compensation, further providing for ineligibility for compensation. | Crossed Over | 01/29/2025 |