---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for funding for certain State-aided universities for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026, for costs basis, for frequency of payments and for recordkeeping requirements; imposing a duty on the Auditor General; providing for financial statements, for the Agricultural College Land Scrip Fund and for restrictions; and making appropriations."
description: "An Act providing for funding for certain State-aided universities for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026, for costs basis, for frequency of payments and for recordkeeping requirements; imposing a duty on the Auditor General; providing for financial statements, for the Agricultural College Land Scrip Fund and for restrictions; and making appropriations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 1421"
citation: "Pennsylvania HB 1421 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jordan Harris"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c63b111-5577-4e6a-9129-c330bc7cc0f1"
source_url: "https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=62&rollcallid=1400&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0"
source_hash: "856ec8c770441e109fb956bc48df5f5d12026a02a6b403e3f064ceda24b280ca"
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 1421 (2025-2026) — An Act providing for funding for certain State-aided universities for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026, for costs basis, for frequency of payments and for recordkeeping requirements; imposing a duty on the Auditor General; providing for financial statements, for the Agricultural College Land Scrip Fund and for restrictions; and making appropriations.

## Version chain

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

1. **Printer's No. PN1645** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB1421/PN1645)
2. **Printer's No. PN2589** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB1421/PN2589)

## Votes

- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Amended — **33–4** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Appropriations): Report Bill As Committed — **22–15** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE — **39–7** (pass) · upper
- MOTION TO PROCEED SB 731 SB 160 — **192–11** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE — **151–52** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Appropriations): Reported as Committed — **20–1** (pass) · upper
- Committee vote (Appropriations): Adopt Amendment — **33–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jordan Harris — primary (person)
- Steven Malagari — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Appropriations `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
- **2025-06-02T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
- **2025-06-03T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
- **2025-06-03T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as amended `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
- **2025-11-17T05:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
- **2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
- **2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
- **2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** Act No. 11A of 2025

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c63b111-5577-4e6a-9129-c330bc7cc0f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).