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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Educational Assistance Program, further providing for definitions, for eligibility and for recoupment of grant payments; and, in Military Family Education Program, further providing for definitions, for eligibility, for limitations and for recoupment of Military Family Education Program grant payments."
+description: "An Act amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Educational Assistance Program, further providing for definitions, for eligibility and for recoupment of grant payments; and, in Military Family Education Program, further providing for definitions, for eligibility, for limitations and for recoupment of Military Family Education Program grant payments."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
+legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "HB 865"
+citation: "Pennsylvania HB 865 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Arvind Venkat"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 10
+first_action: "2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-07-07T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96a1a73f-36e9-44a6-bc9c-67a633e3d993"
+source_url: "https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=42&rollcallid=173&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0"
+source_hash: "0671cc5a74698a0683e14d37eaec6fabdf8baea67e3dd0f6312f5412007d192f"
+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 865 (2025-2026) — An Act amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Educational Assistance Program, further providing for definitions, for eligibility and for recoupment of grant payments; and, in Military Family Education Program, further providing for definitions, for eligibility, for limitations and for recoupment of Military Family Education Program grant payments.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Printer's No. PN0890** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0865/PN0890)
+2. **Printer's No. PN1705** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0865/PN1705)
+3. **Printer's No. PN2010** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0865/PN2010)
+
+## Votes
+
+- CONCURRENCE — **203–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness): Reported as Amended — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness): Adopt Amendment — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **203–0** (pass) · lower
+- A215 — **203–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — **22–0** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Rules): Re-report Bill As Committed — **33–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness): Report Bill As Committed — **26–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — **37–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Arvind Venkat — primary (person)
+- Abigail Salisbury — cosponsor (person)
+- Benjamin Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
+- Carol Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Carol Kazeem — cosponsor (person)
+- Chris Pielli — cosponsor (person)
+- Craig Williams — cosponsor (person)
+- Donna Scheuren — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Roni Green — cosponsor (person)
+- Gina Curry — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacklyn Rusnock — cosponsor (person)
+- Joanne Stehr — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Webster — cosponsor (person)
+- Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz — cosponsor (person)
+- John Inglis Iii — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Hohenstein — cosponsor (person)
+- Keith Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Kristin Marcell — cosponsor (person)
+- Kristine Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Lisa Borowski — cosponsor (person)
+- Liz Hanbidge — cosponsor (person)
+- Malcolm Kenyatta — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandy Steele — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark Gillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Maureen Madden — cosponsor (person)
+- Melissa Cerrato — cosponsor (person)
+- Melissa Shusterman — cosponsor (person)
+- Nancy Guenst — cosponsor (person)
+- Nikki Rivera — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Freeman — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean Dougherty — cosponsor (person)
+- Steve Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarah Probst — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarik Khan — cosponsor (person)
+- Tina Davis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+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, with amendments `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 Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as amended `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2025-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-25T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-25T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-26T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-06-26T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported on concurrence, as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** House concurred in Senate amendments
+- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
+- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
+- **2025-07-01T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-07-07T04:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-07T04:00:00+00:00** Act No. 32 of 2025
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96a1a73f-36e9-44a6-bc9c-67a633e3d993`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).
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