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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act providing for the annual designation and holiday observance June 19 as \"Juneteenth National Freedom Day\" in this Commonwealth."
+description: "An Act providing for the annual designation and holiday observance June 19 as \"Juneteenth National Freedom Day\" in this Commonwealth."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
+legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "HB 619"
+citation: "Pennsylvania HB 619 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Helm"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2019-02-28T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2019-06-19T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a14c32e-d53e-40d4-9ca6-9170b1287d2a"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=619"
+source_hash: "794f330f12c2fecb0fbf9bba26a96aaa5297422efa30034e43ea589f280721c3"
+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 619 (2019-2020) — An Act providing for the annual designation and holiday observance June 19 as "Juneteenth National Freedom Day" in this Commonwealth.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Printer's No. 0614** (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=0619&pn=0614)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — **24–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **191–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (STATE GOVERNMENT): Reported as Committed — **10–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Helm — primary (person)
+- Bernstine — cosponsor (person)
+- Bizzarro — cosponsor (person)
+- Boback — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Burns — cosponsor (person)
+- Caltagirone — cosponsor (person)
+- Davidson — cosponsor (person)
+- Digirolamo — cosponsor (person)
+- Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Gillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Hennessey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Kenyatta — cosponsor (person)
+- Kinsey — cosponsor (person)
+- Kortz — cosponsor (person)
+- Kulik — cosponsor (person)
+- Longietti — cosponsor (person)
+- Mehaffie — cosponsor (person)
+- Millard — cosponsor (person)
+- Neilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Oberlander — cosponsor (person)
+- Rabb — cosponsor (person)
+- Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Rothman — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan — cosponsor (person)
+- Sainato — cosponsor (person)
+- Saylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Schlossberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Schweyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Sonney — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Webster — cosponsor (person)
+- Wheeland — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** PN 0614 Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2019-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
+- **2019-04-30T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
+- **2019-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2019-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT `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`
+- **2019-06-10T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2019-06-10T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2019-06-12T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-06-17T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
+- **2019-06-17T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
+- **2019-06-18T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-19T04:00:00+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/3a14c32e-d53e-40d4-9ca6-9170b1287d2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).
+