republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/hb-1979.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in limitation of time, further providing for twenty year limitation.	An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in limitation of time, further providing for twenty year limitation.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	HB 1979	Pennsylvania HB 1979 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Schemel	1	20	4	2017-12-21T05:00:00+00:00	2018-06-25T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a4b57b21-3f7b-4f99-b8b5-6087b731ed77	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1979	792ba665705cf705375fdebcac8b77f0be569b44ee005c05ab6b7274612407f2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 1979 (2017-2018) — An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in limitation of time, further providing for twenty year limitation.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 2837 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 26–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 193–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Committed — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Schemel — primary (person)
• Briggs — cosponsor (person)
• English — cosponsor (person)
• Godshall — cosponsor (person)
• Hennessey — cosponsor (person)
• Kampf — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Mcginnis — cosponsor (person)
• Pashinski — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-12-21T05:00:00+00:00 PN 2837 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2018-01-23T05:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-01-23T05:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-01-23T05:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2018-01-24T05:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2018-02-05T05:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2018-02-05T05:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-02-12T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2018-04-24T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-04-24T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-05-23T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2018-05-23T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-06-13T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 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
• 2018-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a4b57b21-3f7b-4f99-b8b5-6087b731ed77. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).