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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in rules of the road in general, further providing for prohibiting use of hearing impairment devices."
+description: "An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in rules of the road in general, further providing for prohibiting use of hearing impairment devices."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
+legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 646"
+citation: "Pennsylvania HB 646 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Zachary Mako"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-11-06T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/598589df-55ae-44e7-8cab-acde8867b997"
+source_url: "https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=38&rollcallid=346&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0"
+source_hash: "743fb9d4770ca5202d3d5fb37be073875440636f2b57e1bc9436fb1c1e76f04a"
+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 646 (2025-2026) — An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in rules of the road in general, further providing for prohibiting use of hearing impairment devices.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Printer's No. PN0655** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0646/PN0655)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **47–3** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Transportation): Reported as Committed — **13–1** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Transportation): Report Bill As Committed — **25–1** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **193–10** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — **37–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — **20–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Zachary Mako — primary (person)
+- Barbara Gleim — cosponsor (person)
+- Brian Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Chad Reichard — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Roni Green — cosponsor (person)
+- Rob Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
+- **2025-05-12T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
+- **2025-05-13T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-13T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-22T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-26T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-06-26T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-10-06T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-10-28T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-10-29T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
+- **2025-10-29T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
+- **2025-10-29T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-11-06T05:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-11-06T05:00:00+00:00** Act No. 43 of 2025
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/598589df-55ae-44e7-8cab-acde8867b997`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).
+