PA Bill Number: SR356
Title: Designating the week of August 17 through 23, 2026, as "Social Media Safety and Parental Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Description: A Resolution designating the week of August 17 through 23, 2026, as "Social Media Safety and Parental Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Last Action: Referred to Rules & Executive Nominations
Last Action Date: Aug 13, 2026
Proposed Pennsylvania Senate Legislation SB146
Legislation Overview
Title: 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.
Subject:
Description: 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.
Session: 2025-2026 Regular Session
Last Action: Act No. 21 of 2026
Last Action Date: July 12, 2026
Link: https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/2025/sb146
Sponsors
Note: the first sponsor listed is normally the primary sponsor. If a sponsor's name is a hyperlink you can click on it to 'follow the money'.
9 sponsors: Lisa Baker (R); Michele Brooks (R); Camera Bartolotta (R); Wayne Fontana (D); Rosemary Brown (R); Tracy Pennycuick (R); Jay Costa (D); Patrick Stefano (R); Devlin Robinson (R)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Jul 12, 2026 | Act No. 21 of 2026 |
| Senate | Jul 12, 2026 | Signed in Senate |
| Senate | Jul 12, 2026 | Senate concurred in House amendments (46-4) |
| Senate | Jul 12, 2026 | Re-reported on concurrence, as committed |
| Senate | Jul 12, 2026 | Referred to Rules & Executive Nominations |
| Senate | Jul 12, 2026 | In the Senate |
| House | Jul 12, 2026 | Third consideration and final passage (188-14) |
| House | Jul 12, 2026 | Re-reported as amended |
| Senate | Jul 12, 2026 | Approved by the Governor |
| Senate | Jul 12, 2026 | Presented to the Governor |
| House | Jul 12, 2026 | Signed in House |
| House | Jul 11, 2026 | Amended in House Committee on Appropriations |
| House | Jun 22, 2026 | Removed from table |
| House | Jun 22, 2026 | Re-referred to Appropriations |
| House | Jun 22, 2026 | Second consideration, with amendments |
| House | Nov 19, 2025 | First consideration |
| House | Nov 19, 2025 | Laid on the table |
| House | Nov 19, 2025 | Reported as amended |
| House | Nov 18, 2025 | Corrective Reprint, Printer's No. 1320 |
| House | Nov 17, 2025 | Reconsider the Vote by which the House Accepted the Report of the Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee that Contained Senate Bill 146 (202-0) |
| House | Nov 17, 2025 | Removed from table |
| House | Nov 17, 2025 | First Consideration Rescinded |
| House | Oct 29, 2025 | First Consideration Rescinded |
| House | Oct 29, 2025 | Laid on the table |
| House | Oct 29, 2025 | First consideration |
| House | Oct 29, 2025 | Reported as amended |
| House | Oct 29, 2025 | Reconsider the Vote by which the House Accepted the Report of the Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee that Contained Senate Bill 146 (203-0) |
| House | Oct 8, 2025 | First consideration |
| House | Oct 8, 2025 | Removed from table |
| House | Oct 8, 2025 | Laid on the table |
| House | Oct 8, 2025 | Reported as amended |
| Senate | Mar 25, 2025 | Third consideration and final passage (49-0) |
| House | Mar 25, 2025 | Referred to Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness |
| House | Mar 25, 2025 | In the House |
| Senate | Mar 24, 2025 | Re-reported as committed |
| Senate | Feb 5, 2025 | Re-referred to Appropriations |
| Senate | Feb 5, 2025 | Second consideration |
| Senate | Jan 28, 2025 | Reported as amended |
| Senate | Jan 28, 2025 | First consideration |
| Senate | Jan 22, 2025 | Referred to Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Amended | Jul 11, 2026 | state bill text | bill text |
| Amended | Jun 22, 2026 | state bill text | bill text |
| Amended | Nov 18, 2025 | state bill text | bill text |
| Amended | Oct 29, 2025 | state bill text | bill text |
| Amended | Oct 8, 2025 | state bill text | bill text |
| Amended | not available | state bill text | bill text |
| Introduced | not available | state bill text | bill text |
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
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