---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) , 44 (Law and Justice) and 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in selection and retention of judicial officers, further providing for continuing education credit; in other officers, providing for mental health evaluations; and, in employees, further providing for powers and duties of commission."
description: "An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) , 44 (Law and Justice) and 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in selection and retention of judicial officers, further providing for continuing education credit; in other officers, providing for mental health evaluations; and, in employees, further providing for powers and duties of commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HB 1910"
citation: "Pennsylvania HB 1910 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Williams"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-10-11T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-07-14T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9ab81a8-6d52-4a54-8dac-867b86817423"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1910"
source_hash: "d82740f0de0dd8f9d7f53d2a3e3cd1e90c1bd3ea5c31c3175715ae646b9d36cd"
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 1910 (2019-2020) — An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) , 44 (Law and Justice) and 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in selection and retention of judicial officers, further providing for continuing education credit; in other officers, providing for mental health evaluations; and, in employees, further providing for powers and duties of commission.

## Version chain

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

1. **House Amendment A06140** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/HA/Public/HaCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sYear=2019&sInd=0&body=H&type=B&bn=1910&pn=2658&aYear=2019&an=06140)
2. **House Amendment A06222** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/HA/Public/HaCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sYear=2019&sInd=0&body=H&type=B&bn=1910&pn=2658&aYear=2019&an=06222)
3. **House Amendment A06327** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/HA/Public/HaCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sYear=2019&sInd=0&body=H&type=B&bn=1910&pn=3932&aYear=2019&an=06327)
4. **Printer's No. 2658** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2019&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=1910&pn=2658)
5. **Printer's No. 3932** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2019&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=1910&pn=3932)
6. **Printer's No. 4012** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2019&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=1910&pn=4012)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE — **201–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1910 PN 3932, 2019 A6327, BRIGGS — **201–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Committee vote (LAW AND JUSTICE): Reported as Committed — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Williams — primary (person)
- Barrar — cosponsor (person)
- Briggs — cosponsor (person)
- Bullock — cosponsor (person)
- Caltagirone — cosponsor (person)
- Ciresi — cosponsor (person)
- Comitta — cosponsor (person)
- Daley — cosponsor (person)
- Dawkins — cosponsor (person)
- Delloso — cosponsor (person)
- Fiedler — cosponsor (person)
- Fitzgerald — cosponsor (person)
- Frankel — cosponsor (person)
- Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Gainey — cosponsor (person)
- Galloway — cosponsor (person)
- Green — cosponsor (person)
- Hanbidge — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Hohenstein — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Isaacson — cosponsor (person)
- Kinsey — cosponsor (person)
- Kirkland — cosponsor (person)
- Kortz — cosponsor (person)
- Kosierowski — cosponsor (person)
- Madden — cosponsor (person)
- Malagari — cosponsor (person)
- Mcneill — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Pashinski — cosponsor (person)
- Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
- Rozzi — cosponsor (person)
- Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Schlossberg — cosponsor (person)
- Schweyer — cosponsor (person)
- Shusterman — cosponsor (person)
- T. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Ullman — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Youngblood — cosponsor (person)
- Zabel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-10-11T04:00:00+00:00** PN 2658 Referred to JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-15T04:00:00+00:00** PN 3932 Reported as amended `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-15T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
- **2020-06-15T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to RULES `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-23T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-23T04:00:00+00:00** PN 4012 Second consideration, with amendments `reading-2`
- **2020-06-23T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to LAW AND JUSTICE `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
- **2020-06-29T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
- **2020-06-29T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2020-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
- **2020-07-07T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
- **2020-07-07T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-07-14T04:00:00+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/a9ab81a8-6d52-4a54-8dac-867b86817423`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).