republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/hb-203.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in dispositions independent of letters, family exemption, probate of wills and grant of letters, further providing for payments to family and funeral directors; and, in powers of appointment, further providing for exercise of powers of appointment.	An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in dispositions independent of letters, family exemption, probate of wills and grant of letters, further providing for payments to family and funeral directors; and, in powers of appointment, further providing for exercise of powers of appointment.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	HB 203	Pennsylvania HB 203 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Longietti	2	23	5	2017-01-25T05:00:00+00:00	2017-10-30T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b08430f8-eacf-4cdf-9796-c4e72eedcc09	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=203	51cdefd31149a2d4ef870075856ad393b0bef08b9acd8b0b9836bde26b5820b0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 203 (2017-2018) — An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in dispositions independent of letters, family exemption, probate of wills and grant of letters, further providing for payments to family and funeral directors; and, in powers of appointment, further providing for exercise of powers of appointment.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 0171 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 2519 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 198–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Amended — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 203 PN 2519, CONCUR — 190–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 26–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Longietti — primary (person)
• Barbin — cosponsor (person)
• Bizzarro — cosponsor (person)
• Bullock — cosponsor (person)
• Caltagirone — cosponsor (person)
• Carroll — cosponsor (person)
• D. Costa — cosponsor (person)
• Davidson — cosponsor (person)
• Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Driscoll — cosponsor (person)
• Gabler — cosponsor (person)
• Gergely — cosponsor (person)
• Godshall — cosponsor (person)
• James — cosponsor (person)
• Jozwiak — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Mcneill — cosponsor (person)
• Murt — cosponsor (person)
• Neilson — cosponsor (person)
• Petrarca — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips-Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Pickett — cosponsor (person)
• Rozzi — cosponsor (person)
• Sainato — cosponsor (person)
• Solomon — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• V. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-25T05:00:00+00:00 PN 0171 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2017-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2017-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2017-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2017-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2017-04-03T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-04-03T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-04-06T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2017-10-03T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2519 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-10-03T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-10-16T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2017-10-16T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2017-10-23T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-10-24T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-10-25T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2017-10-25T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2017-10-25T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2017-10-25T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2017-10-25T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2017-10-26T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-10-30T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b08430f8-eacf-4cdf-9796-c4e72eedcc09. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).