---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for \"What Is Your Pennsylvania Story\" guidelines for school entities; and imposing duties on the Department of Education."
description: "An Act providing for \"What Is Your Pennsylvania Story\" guidelines for school entities; and imposing duties on the Department of Education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 354"
citation: "Pennsylvania HB 354 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jared Solomon"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 24
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-01-27T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-07-07T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31d0deec-e647-4d0e-b204-52763fa4ec4c"
source_url: "https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=12&rollcallid=103&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0"
source_hash: "4e90a81c398b3f8abdb381ae0fb9d496f93bb3bf772402b95c73b26110a347f6"
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 354 (2025-2026) — An Act providing for "What Is Your Pennsylvania Story" guidelines for school entities; and imposing duties on the Department of Education.

## Version chain

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

1. **Printer's No. PN0308** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0354/PN0308)
2. **Printer's No. PN2000** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0354/PN2000)

## Votes

- Committee vote (Rules): Re-report Bill As Committed — **33–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — **37–0** (pass) · lower
- CONCURRENCE — **199–4** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Education): Report Bill As Committed — **26–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Committee vote (Education): Reported as Amended — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE — **190–13** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Education): Adopt Amendment — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jared Solomon — primary (person)
- Barbara Gleim — cosponsor (person)
- Benjamin Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Carol Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Carol Kazeem — cosponsor (person)
- Danilo Burgos — cosponsor (person)
- G. Roni Green — cosponsor (person)
- Jim Haddock — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Webster — cosponsor (person)
- Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz — cosponsor (person)
- Keith Greiner — cosponsor (person)
- Keith Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Kerry Benninghoff — cosponsor (person)
- Kristin Marcell — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Donahue — cosponsor (person)
- Malcolm Kenyatta — cosponsor (person)
- Mandy Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Malagari — cosponsor (person)
- Tarik Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Tina Davis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-17T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17T04:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
- **2025-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
- **2025-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Education `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. 30 of 2025

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31d0deec-e647-4d0e-b204-52763fa4ec4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).