Legislation: batch D — NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TX UT

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/hb-564.md

@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in high schools, providing for assessment of civic knowledge."
+description: "An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in high schools, providing for assessment of civic knowledge."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
+legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
+session: "2017-2018"
+identifier: "HB 564"
+citation: "Pennsylvania HB 564 (2017-2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Boback"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2017-02-21T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2018-06-19T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef1ac20d-6d49-4ff3-a1e9-951ac62a130a"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=564"
+source_hash: "ef6603f58fd7c0d58f0a82e0a95cdb395588a6113d7314d310c23d42d2195f91"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-pa"]
+---
+
+# Pennsylvania HB 564 (2017-2018) — An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in high schools, providing for assessment of civic knowledge.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Printer's No. 0589** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2017&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=0564&pn=0589)
+2. **Printer's No. 3298** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2017&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=0564&pn=3298)
+3. **Printer's No. 3547** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2017&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=0564&pn=3547)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — **26–0** (pass) · upper
+- HB 564 PN 3547, CONCUR — **167–27** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (EDUCATION): Reported as Amended — **12–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **191–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Boback — primary (person)
+- Barbin — cosponsor (person)
+- Barrar — cosponsor (person)
+- Benninghoff — cosponsor (person)
+- Bizzarro — cosponsor (person)
+- Burns — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Quinn — cosponsor (person)
+- Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Cutler — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Costa — cosponsor (person)
+- Daley — cosponsor (person)
+- Delissio — cosponsor (person)
+- Diamond — cosponsor (person)
+- Donatucci — cosponsor (person)
+- Dush — cosponsor (person)
+- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
+- English — cosponsor (person)
+- Everett — cosponsor (person)
+- Fabrizio — cosponsor (person)
+- Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Gabler — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hahn — cosponsor (person)
+- Harkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Helm — cosponsor (person)
+- James — cosponsor (person)
+- Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
+- Kim — cosponsor (person)
+- Kortz — cosponsor (person)
+- Longietti — cosponsor (person)
+- Mackenzie — cosponsor (person)
+- Mcneill — cosponsor (person)
+- Metcalfe — cosponsor (person)
+- Miccarelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Millard — cosponsor (person)
+- Murt — cosponsor (person)
+- Neilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- O'Brien — cosponsor (person)
+- Pashinski — cosponsor (person)
+- Pickett — cosponsor (person)
+- Pyle — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Rader — cosponsor (person)
+- Rapp — cosponsor (person)
+- Ravenstahl — cosponsor (person)
+- Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Roe — cosponsor (person)
+- Roebuck — cosponsor (person)
+- Rothman — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan — cosponsor (person)
+- Saccone — cosponsor (person)
+- Sainato — cosponsor (person)
+- Schlegel Culver — cosponsor (person)
+- Solomon — cosponsor (person)
+- Staats — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephens — cosponsor (person)
+- Sturla — cosponsor (person)
+- Toohil — cosponsor (person)
+- V. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Ward — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Youngblood — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-21T05:00:00+00:00** PN 0589 Referred to EDUCATION `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** PN 3298 Reported as amended `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2018-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2018-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
+- **2018-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
+- **2018-04-11T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2018-04-11T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2018-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-04-30T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to EDUCATION `referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-22T04:00:00+00:00** PN 3547 Reported as amended `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2018-05-22T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2018-05-23T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2018-05-23T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-04T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2018-06-05T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-06-06T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-06T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported on concurrence, as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2018-06-06T04:00:00+00:00** House concurred in Senate amendments
+- **2018-06-06T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
+- **2018-06-11T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
+- **2018-06-11T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-06-19T04:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ef1ac20d-6d49-4ff3-a1e9-951ac62a130a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).
+