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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in child custody, further providing for consideration of criminal conviction."
+description: "An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in child custody, further providing for consideration of criminal conviction."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
+legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
+session: "2021-2022"
+identifier: "HB 843"
+citation: "Pennsylvania HB 843 (2021-2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rowe"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-03-09T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-06-30T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6c075ad-e68b-4b86-9bcc-6484a75a2c7a"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2021&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=843"
+source_hash: "cdefdf3a31c1b31708f90ecc0fbe909626571b1298ded0a23d166718bbb5c489"
+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 843 (2021-2022) — An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in child custody, further providing for consideration of criminal conviction.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Printer's No. 0827** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2021&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=0843&pn=0827)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Committed — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- HB 843 PN 827, Final Passage — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **201–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rowe — primary (person)
+- B. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Burgos — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- Ciresi — cosponsor (person)
+- Dowling — cosponsor (person)
+- Ecker — cosponsor (person)
+- Gillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamm — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Hohenstein — cosponsor (person)
+- James — cosponsor (person)
+- Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
+- Keefer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lewis Delrosso — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Mackenzie — cosponsor (person)
+- Moul — cosponsor (person)
+- Pickett — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan — cosponsor (person)
+- Saylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Schlegel Culver — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Staats — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephens — cosponsor (person)
+- Struzzi — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
+- Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** PN 0827 Referred to JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
+- **2021-05-05T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
+- **2021-05-24T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2021-05-24T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-25T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2021-05-25T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-05-28T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-22T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2021-06-22T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2021-06-23T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2021-06-25T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-06-25T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
+- **2021-06-25T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
+- **2021-06-28T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2021-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Act No. 38 of 2021
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e6c075ad-e68b-4b86-9bcc-6484a75a2c7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).
+