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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in budget and finance, further providing for expenses; in facilities and supplies, further providing for deposits into account; and, in access to justice, providing for performance audit of account."
+description: "An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in budget and finance, further providing for expenses; in facilities and supplies, further providing for deposits into account; and, in access to justice, providing for performance audit of account."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
+legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 331"
+citation: "Pennsylvania HB 331 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Tim Briggs"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 12
+first_action: "2025-01-27T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fced232c-afd9-453b-953e-c257665f1f2d"
+source_url: "https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=60&rollcallid=597&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0"
+source_hash: "e70b2d788ad829fddb18314e9f35f70ee8c92cf9bc9481335bdad31047afd7e3"
+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 331 (2025-2026) — An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in budget and finance, further providing for expenses; in facilities and supplies, further providing for deposits into account; and, in access to justice, providing for performance audit of account.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Printer's No. PN0286** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0331/PN0286)
+2. **Printer's No. PN2718** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0331/PN2718)
+3. **Printer's No. PN2848** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0331/PN2848)
+4. **Printer's No. PN2859** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0331/PN2859)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Committee vote (Judiciary): Reported as Amended — **12–2** (pass) · upper
+- A2252 — **203–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Judiciary): Adopt Amendment — **9–5** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Judiciary): Report Bill As Committed — **14–12** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **147–52** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — **35–2** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- CONCURRENCE — **187–11** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Rules): Re-report Bill As Committed — **33–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **46–2** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Rules & Executive Nominations): Adopt Amendment — **17–0** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Rules & Executive Nominations): Re-Reported as Amended — **17–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Tim Briggs — primary (person)
+- Ben Waxman — cosponsor (person)
+- Benjamin Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
+- Carol Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Chris Pielli — cosponsor (person)
+- Danielle Friel Otten — cosponsor (person)
+- Ed Neilson — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Roni Green — cosponsor (person)
+- Jared Solomon — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Ciresi — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Webster — cosponsor (person)
+- Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz — cosponsor (person)
+- Jose Giral — cosponsor (person)
+- Justin Fleming — cosponsor (person)
+- Keith Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Kristine Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Donahue — cosponsor (person)
+- Liz Hanbidge — cosponsor (person)
+- Melissa Cerrato — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Schlossberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Perry Warren — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean Dougherty — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarik Khan — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-27T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-02T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-06-02T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-02T04:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
+- **2025-12-16T05:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
+- **2025-12-17T05:00:00+00:00** Second consideration, with amendments `reading-2`
+- **2025-12-17T05:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-28T05:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2026-01-28T05:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-01-30T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-02T05:00:00+00:00** Reported as amended `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-02T05:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-03T05:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-03T05:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Rules & Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-03T05:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as amended `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Re-reported on concurrence, as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** House concurred in Senate amendments
+- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
+- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
+- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Act No. 1 of 2026
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fced232c-afd9-453b-953e-c257665f1f2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).
+