• Introduced
    Jan 22, 2025
  • Passed Senate
    Mar 25, 2025
  • Passed House
    Jul 12, 2026
  • Became Law
SB 146
Pennsylvania Senate Bill
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An Act amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, in emergency COVID-19 response, providing for extension of use of certain funds; in Child Care Staff Recruitment and Retention Program, further providing for Child Care Staff Recruitment and Retention Program; in cigarette sales and licensing, further providing for definitions and providing for allowable mode of operations for licensed cigarette stamping agents; in joint underwriting association, further providing for fund transfers; providing for food processing residuals; in financially distressed municipalities, further providing for financial recovery; in oil and gas wells, further providing for Oil and Gas Lease Fund and providing for deep wells and Utica Shale permits and for well plugging; providing for manufacturing and investment tax credit, for Innovate in PA 2.0 Tax Credit and for design build best value; in human services, further providing for medical assistance payments for institutional care, for resident care and related costs and for LIFE Program and providing for transition to chip-enabled access cards, for Medical Assistance Reentry Program, for Children's Trust Fund and for medical assistance pharmacy services; in additional keystone opportunity expansion zones, providing for additional zone for shipbuilding and for additional zones; providing for residential revitalization keystone opportunity zones and for violent incident clearance and technological investigative methods; in special funds, further providing for funding and for Pennsylvania Convention Center; in additional special funds and restricted accounts, providing for Veterans' Trust Fund Board and further providing for establishment of special fund and account, for use of fund and for distributions from Pennsylvania Race Horse Development Fund; in additional special funds and restricted accounts, further providing for deposits and providing for Professional Licensure Augmentation Account; in general budget implementation, further providing for Executive Offices, for Department of Agriculture, for Department of Corrections, for Department of Labor and Industry and for Department of Transportation, providing for Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and further providing for Commonwealth Financing Authority, for Federal and Commonwealth use of forest land, for Multimodal Transportation Fund, for School Safety and Security Fund, for State Gaming Fund, for State Employees' Retirement System Restricted Account and for Public School Employees' Retirement System Restricted Account; in retirement, providing for 2026 special ad hoc municipal police and firefighter postretirement adjustment, for supplemental annuities for public school employees commencing 2026, for supplemental annuities for State employees commencing 2026 and for payment of supplemental annuity and special ad hoc postretirement adjustment; in electricity load forecast accountability, providing for energy and water reporting and for advanced transmission technologies; in 2025-2026 budget implementation, further providing for Department of Agriculture, for Department of Human Services and for Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency; providing for 2026-2027 budget implementation and for 2026-2027 restrictions on appropriations for funds and accounts; in fiscal supplements to statutory programs, providing for amusement tax clarification, for situs for local sales tax for cities of the first class, for situs for local sales tax for counties of the second class, for net income and for housing; abrogating a regulation; making repeals; providing for suspension of pension actuarial notes; and making editorial changes.
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Jul 12, 2026: Signed in House
House Calendar: House Calendar Supplemental A THIRD CONSIDERATION & FINAL PASSAGE VETERANS AFFAIRS & EMERGENCY PREP.
Position: 2

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Votes
YES: 188

OTHER: 0
Actions
  • Jul 12, 2026 | Senate
    • Referred to Rules & Executive Nominations
    • Re-reported on concurrence, as committed
    • Senate concurred in House amendments
    • Signed in House
  • Jul 12, 2026 | House
    • Re-reported as amended
    • Third consideration and final passage
  • Jul 11, 2026 | House
    • Amended in House Committee on Appropriations
  • Jun 22, 2026 | House
    • Removed from table
    • Second consideration, with amendments
    • Re-referred to Appropriations
  • Nov 19, 2025 | House
    • Reported as amended
    • First consideration
    • Laid on the table
  • Nov 18, 2025 | House
    • Corrective Reprint, Printer's No. 1320
  • Nov 17, 2025 | House
    • Removed from table
    • First Consideration Rescinded
    • Reconsider the Vote by which the House Accepted the Report of the Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee that Contained Senate Bill 146
  • Oct 29, 2025 | House
    • First Consideration Rescinded
    • Reconsider the Vote by which the House Accepted the Report of the Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee that Contained Senate Bill 146
    • Reported as amended
    • First consideration
    • Laid on the table
  • Oct 08, 2025 | House
    • Reported as amended
    • First consideration
    • Laid on the table
    • Removed from table
  • Mar 25, 2025 | House
    • Referred to Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness
  • Mar 25, 2025 | Senate
    • Third consideration and final passage
  • Mar 24, 2025 | Senate
    • Re-reported as committed
  • Feb 05, 2025 | Senate
    • Second consideration
    • Re-referred to Appropriations
  • Jan 28, 2025 | Senate
    • Reported as amended
    • First consideration
  • Jan 22, 2025 | Senate
    • Referred to Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness
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