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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in particular rights and immunities, further providing for rescue from motor vehicle."
+description: "An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in particular rights and immunities, further providing for rescue from motor vehicle."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
+legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "HB 279"
+citation: "Pennsylvania HB 279 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Boback"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2019-01-29T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c439fce6-b26c-4acc-b822-cefcaa45deed"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=279"
+source_hash: "0192aef3f5024cf9d60946ab70d37ad174f04f57f0d597cae546baa1c7306287"
+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 279 (2019-2020) — An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in particular rights and immunities, further providing for rescue from motor vehicle.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **House Amendment A00274** (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=0279&pn=0247&aYear=2019&an=00274)
+2. **Printer's No. 0247** (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=0279&pn=0247)
+3. **Printer's No. 1330** (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=0279&pn=1330)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Committed — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+- HB 279 PN 247, 2019 A274, BOBACK — **198–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **197–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Boback — primary (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Ciresi — cosponsor (person)
+- Diamond — cosponsor (person)
+- Dowling — cosponsor (person)
+- Farry — cosponsor (person)
+- Gillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Greiner — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- Isaacson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jozwiak — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaufer — cosponsor (person)
+- Kortz — cosponsor (person)
+- Mcneill — cosponsor (person)
+- Millard — cosponsor (person)
+- Murt — cosponsor (person)
+- Neilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Otten — cosponsor (person)
+- Owlett — cosponsor (person)
+- Pickett — cosponsor (person)
+- Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan — cosponsor (person)
+- Struzzi — cosponsor (person)
+- Toohil — cosponsor (person)
+- Warren — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-29T05:00:00+00:00** PN 0247 Referred to JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
+- **2019-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
+- **2019-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** PN 1330 Second consideration, with amendments `reading-2`
+- **2019-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2019-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2019-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-08T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-05-08T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
+- **2019-05-08T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
+- **2019-05-08T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-15T04:00:00+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/c439fce6-b26c-4acc-b822-cefcaa45deed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).
+