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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in intestate succession, further providing for shares of others than surviving spouse; and, in dispositions independent of letters, family exemption, probate of wills and grant of letters, further providing for payments to family and funeral directors."
+description: "An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in intestate succession, further providing for shares of others than surviving spouse; and, in dispositions independent of letters, family exemption, probate of wills and grant of letters, further providing for payments to family and funeral directors."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
+legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 1176"
+citation: "Pennsylvania HB 1176 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Joe Ciresi"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 11
+first_action: "2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-11-24T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/009b8a8f-bb68-45a1-a7e1-152508d0982f"
+source_url: "https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=16&rollcallid=992&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0"
+source_hash: "e5124eef09724bb59f7ea1a42ab5d96e87cd1fa3b2b45d91d2dfbf633c3bdc90"
+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 1176 (2025-2026) — An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in intestate succession, further providing for shares of others than surviving spouse; and, in dispositions independent of letters, family exemption, probate of wills and grant of letters, further providing for payments to family and funeral directors.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Printer's No. PN1313** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB1176/PN1313)
+2. **Printer's No. PN2382** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB1176/PN2382)
+3. **Printer's No. PN2599** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB1176/PN2599)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Committee vote (Finance): Re-refer Bill To Another Committee — **26–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Rules): Re-report Bill As Committed — **33–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — **36–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **203–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCURRENCE — **203–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Judiciary): Report Bill As Committed — **26–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Judiciary): Reported as Committed — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- A1781 — **202–1** (pass) · lower
+- MOTION TO SUSPEND RULES — **202–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Joe Ciresi — primary (person)
+- Abigail Salisbury — cosponsor (person)
+- Arvind Venkat — cosponsor (person)
+- Benjamin Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
+- Carol Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Dan Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- Darisha K. Parker — cosponsor (person)
+- Dave Madsen — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Neilson — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Roni Green — cosponsor (person)
+- Heather Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Mcandrew — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Webster — cosponsor (person)
+- Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz — cosponsor (person)
+- Jose Giral — cosponsor (person)
+- Kristine Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Donahue — cosponsor (person)
+- Lisa Borowski — cosponsor (person)
+- Liz Hanbidge — cosponsor (person)
+- Melissa Cerrato — cosponsor (person)
+- Melissa Shusterman — cosponsor (person)
+- Perry Warren — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Malagari — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarik Khan — cosponsor (person)
+- Valerie Gaydos — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Reported with request to re-refer to Judiciary `committee-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-14T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-07-14T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2025-07-14T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2025-09-10T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-09-10T04:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
+- **2025-09-10T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
+- **2025-09-30T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration, with amendments `reading-2`
+- **2025-09-30T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-10-01T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-10-01T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-10-03T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-10-28T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-10-28T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2025-10-29T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2025-11-17T05:00:00+00:00** Amended on third consideration `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-11-17T05:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-11-18T05:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-11-18T05:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** Re-reported on concurrence, as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** House concurred in Senate amendments
+- **2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
+- **2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
+- **2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-11-24T05:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-11-24T05:00:00+00:00** Act No. 50 of 2025
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/009b8a8f-bb68-45a1-a7e1-152508d0982f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).
+