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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and Title"
+description: "An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and Title"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
+legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
+session: "2023-2024"
+identifier: "HB 1509"
+citation: "Pennsylvania HB 1509 (2023-2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Napoleon J. Nelson"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 11
+first_action: "2023-06-26T04:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2024-10-29T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16404f77-f94e-482d-b866-592014f8490c"
+source_url: "https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=60&rollcallid=1819&sessYr=2023&sessInd=0"
+source_hash: "1a611c3a532d61777bbe3c1907aeff6ce49c4e30fb4bab7f493cfa707e601764"
+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 1509 (2023-2024) — An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and Title
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Printer's No. PN1725** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/HB1509/PN1725)
+2. **Printer's No. PN3692** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/HB1509/PN3692)
+3. **Printer's No. PN3742** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/HB1509/PN3742)
+4. **Senate Amendment A05685** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A05685)
+5. **Senate Amendment A05934** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/amendments/text/2023/0/A05934)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCURRENCE — **113–89** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — **24–0** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Judiciary): Adopt Amendment — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Rules): Re-report Bill As Committed — **33–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **103–99** (pass) · lower
+- BAKER AMENDMENT NO. A-5934 — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Judiciary): Reported as Amended — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — **37–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Judiciary): Report Bill As Committed — **25–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE - RECONSIDERED — **48–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Napoleon J. Nelson — primary (person)
+- Amen Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Benjamin Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
+- Carol Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Carol Kazeem — cosponsor (person)
+- Dan Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- David Delloso — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Roni Green — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Webster — cosponsor (person)
+- Keith Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Maureen Madden — cosponsor (person)
+- Melissa Shusterman — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan Cephas — cosponsor (person)
+- Patty Kim — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephen Kinsey — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarah Probst — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarik Khan — cosponsor (person)
+- Tim Briggs — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-26T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-03T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-03T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2024-06-03T04:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
+- **2024-06-11T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
+- **2024-06-12T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2024-06-12T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2024-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-06-25T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-10-01T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as amended `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2024-10-01T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2024-10-07T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2024-10-08T04:00:00+00:00** Amended on third consideration `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-10-08T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-10-09T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2024-10-09T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-10-09T04:00:00+00:00** Vote on final passage reconsidered
+- **2024-10-09T04:00:00+00:00** Final passage `passage`
+- **2024-10-09T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2024-10-21T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported on concurrence, as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2024-10-21T04:00:00+00:00** House concurred in Senate amendments
+- **2024-10-22T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
+- **2024-10-22T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
+- **2024-10-23T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-10-29T04:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2024-10-29T04:00:00+00:00** Act No. 114 of 2024
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16404f77-f94e-482d-b866-592014f8490c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).
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