republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/hb-217.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in offenses against the family, further providing for the offense of endangering welfare of children.	An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in offenses against the family, further providing for the offense of endangering welfare of children.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	HB 217	Pennsylvania HB 217 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Kauffman	2	20	5	2017-01-25T05:00:00+00:00	2017-06-29T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/51ff4c95-9c90-45bd-8357-9b7c71362365	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=217	1ed0b817277213fe1b02f75cff76d94d0ed90f3c102a2aa3f90929e71ec01466	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 217 (2017-2018) — An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in offenses against the family, further providing for the offense of endangering welfare of children.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 0181 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 1502 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Committed — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 192–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 26–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 217 PN 181, 2017 A720, PETRARCA — 148–38 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kauffman — primary (person)
• Baker — cosponsor (person)
• Bizzarro — cosponsor (person)
• D. Costa — cosponsor (person)
• Driscoll — cosponsor (person)
• Gillen — cosponsor (person)
• Mcneill — cosponsor (person)
• Millard — cosponsor (person)
• Moul — cosponsor (person)
• Murt — cosponsor (person)
• Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Stephens — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-25T05:00:00+00:00 PN 0181 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2017-04-04T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-04-04T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-04-04T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2017-04-05T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2017-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1502 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2017-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2017-04-24T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-04-24T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-05-04T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2017-06-13T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-06-13T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-06-14T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2017-06-14T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2017-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2017-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2017-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-06-29T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51ff4c95-9c90-45bd-8357-9b7c71362365. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).