---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating the Eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) as the official amphibian of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."
description: "An Act designating the Eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) as the official amphibian of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."
jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "SB 9"
citation: "Pennsylvania SB 9 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yaw"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-23T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-23T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf5382a1-5b42-45b3-a90b-b4e2a9268e2b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=S&type=B&BN=9"
source_hash: "a9388dab19a01041560da6c8cde82dc936d4725b726facd978267351aedb6615"
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 9 (2019-2020) — An Act designating the Eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) as the official amphibian of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Printer's No. 0043** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2019&sessInd=0&billBody=S&billTyp=B&billNbr=0009&pn=0043)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE — **48–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE — **191–6** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (STATE GOVERNMENT): Reported as Committed — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Yaw — primary (person)
- Alloway — cosponsor (person)
- Folmer — cosponsor (person)
- Killion — cosponsor (person)
- Regan — cosponsor (person)
- Scarnati — cosponsor (person)
- Vogel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-23T05:00:00+00:00** PN 0043 Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29T05:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-29T05:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
- **2019-01-30T05:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
- **2019-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
- **2019-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
- **2019-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
- **2019-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-23T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
- **2019-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
- **2019-04-23T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-23T04:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf5382a1-5b42-45b3-a90b-b4e2a9268e2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).