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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in sentencing, further providing for sexual offenses and tier system."
+description: "An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in sentencing, further providing for sexual offenses and tier system."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
+legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "SB 255"
+citation: "Pennsylvania SB 255 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lisa Baker"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd818da2-4e67-4183-b677-a471ec85da2b"
+source_url: "https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=60&rollcallid=787&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0"
+source_hash: "c5c80c69b4658f9091afb4af98fe81a7f98d7e2c21982e117f0b72852018620a"
+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 SB 255 (2025-2026) — An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in sentencing, further providing for sexual offenses and tier system.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Printer's No. PN0207** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/SB0255/PN0207)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Judiciary): Reported as Committed — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Committee vote (Judiciary): Report Bill As Committed — **26–0** (pass) · lower
+- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — **37–0** (pass) · lower
+- FINAL PASSAGE — **202–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lisa Baker — primary (person)
+- Camera Bartolotta — cosponsor (person)
+- Cris Dush — cosponsor (person)
+- Elder Vogel — cosponsor (person)
+- Judy Ward — cosponsor (person)
+- Kristin Phillips-Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Lynda Schlegel Culver — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick Stefano — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosemary Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott Martin — cosponsor (person)
+- Tracy Pennycuick — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne Fontana — cosponsor (person)
+- Wayne Langerholc — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-02T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-05T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-17T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
+- **2025-06-17T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-17T04:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
+- **2025-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
+- **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`
+- **2025-06-26T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
+- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
+- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Act No. 22 of 2025
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd818da2-4e67-4183-b677-a471ec85da2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).
+