republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/hb-1918.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in forgery and fraudulent practices, providing for the offense of possession and use of unlawful devices.	An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in forgery and fraudulent practices, providing for the offense of possession and use of unlawful devices.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	HB 1918	Pennsylvania HB 1918 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Phillips-Hill	1	18	3	2017-11-15T05:00:00+00:00	2018-06-28T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6a2df3aa-22e6-4b42-a38d-34db24639a1f	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1918	18927664791c042b94e9bfdc9a516a1308ff273ea6c9ef60d991fa54dab68e58	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 1918 (2017-2018) — An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in forgery and fraudulent practices, providing for the offense of possession and use of unlawful devices.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 2709 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Committed — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 187–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 48–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Phillips-Hill — primary (person)
• B. Miller — cosponsor (person)
• B. O'Neill — cosponsor (person)
• Barbin — cosponsor (person)
• Barrar — cosponsor (person)
• Boback — cosponsor (person)
• Charlton — cosponsor (person)
• Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Deluca — cosponsor (person)
• Dush — cosponsor (person)
• Fee — cosponsor (person)
• Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
• Goodman — cosponsor (person)
• Grove — cosponsor (person)
• Harkins — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• Keefer — cosponsor (person)
• Klunk — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• M. Quinn — cosponsor (person)
• Marsico — cosponsor (person)
• Millard — cosponsor (person)
• Moul — cosponsor (person)
• Ortitay — cosponsor (person)
• Pashinski — cosponsor (person)
• Pickett — cosponsor (person)
• Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Rozzi — cosponsor (person)
• Santora — cosponsor (person)
• Saylor — cosponsor (person)
• Stephens — cosponsor (person)
• Tallman — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)
• Wheeland — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-11-15T05:00:00+00:00 PN 2709 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2017-11-21T05:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-11-21T05:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-11-21T05:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2017-12-04T05:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2017-12-05T05:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2017-12-05T05:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2017-12-06T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-12-06T05:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-12-08T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2018-06-05T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-06-05T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-06-06T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2018-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-06-20T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2018-06-20T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2018-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6a2df3aa-22e6-4b42-a38d-34db24639a1f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).