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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act amending Title 3 (Agriculture) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, establishing the Agriculture Rapid Response Disaster Readiness Account."
+description: "An Act amending Title 3 (Agriculture) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, establishing the Agriculture Rapid Response Disaster Readiness Account."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
+legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "HB 1516"
+citation: "Pennsylvania HB 1516 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Causer"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2019-07-01T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3f60210-6dcf-401b-abc2-8915ad46e91b"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1516"
+source_hash: "c2e7569a3e369348b9781f3002de412650dc130c617f99c76af4332bb31f7713"
+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 1516 (2019-2020) — An Act amending Title 3 (Agriculture) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, establishing the Agriculture Rapid Response Disaster Readiness Account.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **House Amendment A01898** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/HA/Public/HaCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sYear=2019&sInd=0&body=H&type=B&bn=1516&pn=1911&aYear=2019&an=01898)
+2. **Printer's No. 1911** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2019&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=1516&pn=1911)
+3. **Printer's No. 2124** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2019&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=1516&pn=2124)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — **24–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- HB 1516 PN 1911, 2019 A1898, CAUSER — **196–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **198–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS): Reported as Committed — **10–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Causer — primary (person)
+- A. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Bernstine — cosponsor (person)
+- Burgos — cosponsor (person)
+- Ciresi — cosponsor (person)
+- Delissio — cosponsor (person)
+- Fee — cosponsor (person)
+- Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Greiner — cosponsor (person)
+- Hanbidge — cosponsor (person)
+- Harkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hickernell — cosponsor (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- Longietti — cosponsor (person)
+- M. K. Keller — cosponsor (person)
+- Malagari — cosponsor (person)
+- Mcneill — cosponsor (person)
+- Mentzer — cosponsor (person)
+- Millard — cosponsor (person)
+- Moul — cosponsor (person)
+- Neilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Owlett — cosponsor (person)
+- Pashinski — cosponsor (person)
+- Rabb — cosponsor (person)
+- Rader — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan — cosponsor (person)
+- Sainato — cosponsor (person)
+- Sappey — cosponsor (person)
+- Saylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Snyder — cosponsor (person)
+- Struzzi — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Ullman — cosponsor (person)
+- Webster — cosponsor (person)
+- Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00** PN 1911 Referred to AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-05T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-05T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2019-06-05T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-12T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-12T04:00:00+00:00** PN 2124 Second consideration, with amendments `reading-2`
+- **2019-06-12T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-17T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-17T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-06-20T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2019-06-25T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2019-06-25T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-25T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-26T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-06-26T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
+- **2019-06-26T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
+- **2019-06-27T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-07-01T04:00:00+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/a3f60210-6dcf-401b-abc2-8915ad46e91b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).
+