---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in motor carrier safety, further providing for Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee."
description: "An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in motor carrier safety, further providing for Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SB 997"
citation: "Pennsylvania SB 997 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marty Flynn"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-09-12T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-01T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb7c29a8-1cac-4816-9505-11559f8f924a"
source_url: "https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=38&rollcallid=1642&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0"
source_hash: "25cbeca6b4e680cf1d8b872e0602915310c25d4fea891f3332058525088e1b75"
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 997 (2025-2026) — An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in motor carrier safety, further providing for Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee.

## Version chain

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

1. **Printer's No. PN1163** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/SB0997/PN1163)
2. **Printer's No. PN1271** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/SB0997/PN1271)

## Votes

- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — **37–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Transportation): Report Bill As Committed — **26–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE — **199–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Committee vote (Transportation): Reported as Amended — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Committee vote (Transportation): Adopt Amendment — **13–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Marty Flynn — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-12T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-22T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as amended `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-10-22T04:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
- **2025-10-27T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
- **2025-10-27T04:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-17T05:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2025-11-18T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to revert to Prior Printer's No. 1163
- **2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-19T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-03T05:00:00+00:00** Reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-03T05:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
- **2026-02-03T05:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
- **2026-02-03T05:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Second consideration `reading-2`
- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-23T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-23T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
- **2026-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
- **2026-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Act No. 10 of 2026

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb7c29a8-1cac-4816-9505-11559f8f924a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).