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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for parole procedure."
+description: "An Act amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for parole procedure."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
+legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "HB 1538"
+citation: "Pennsylvania HB 1538 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["White"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-06-03T04:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2020-11-25T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/566d1101-915e-4159-b905-16ad06f86f09"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1538"
+source_hash: "570bee0bfb9376c388a61eac8c39d88342799af92da0438fc315a9dba733794a"
+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 1538 (2019-2020) — An Act amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for parole procedure.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Printer's No. 1955** (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=1538&pn=1955)
+2. **Printer's No. 3666** (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=1538&pn=3666)
+3. **Senate Amendment A05296** (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=1538&pn=1955&aYear=2019&an=05296)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Amended — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **194–7** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **46–3** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — **21–3** (pass) · upper
+- HB 1538 PN 3666, CONCUR — **168–33** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- White — primary (person)
+- Bernstine — cosponsor (person)
+- Deluca — cosponsor (person)
+- Farry — cosponsor (person)
+- Gillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaufer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lawrence — cosponsor (person)
+- Masser — cosponsor (person)
+- Mehaffie — cosponsor (person)
+- Moul — cosponsor (person)
+- Pickett — cosponsor (person)
+- Pyle — cosponsor (person)
+- Quinn — cosponsor (person)
+- Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Struzzi — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Tomlinson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-03T04:00:00+00:00** PN 1955 Referred to JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-18T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-18T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2019-06-18T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-19T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-19T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-06-21T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
+- **2020-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** PN 3666 Reported as amended `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2020-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2020-05-13T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2020-05-13T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-22T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2020-09-09T04:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
+- **2020-09-09T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
+- **2020-10-21T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-10-26T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2020-11-18T05:00:00+00:00** Re-reported on concurrence, as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2020-11-18T05:00:00+00:00** House concurred in Senate amendments
+- **2020-11-18T05:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
+- **2020-11-18T05:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
+- **2020-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-11-25T05:00:00+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/566d1101-915e-4159-b905-16ad06f86f09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).
+