republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/hb-653.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 68 (Real and Personal Property) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in real property, providing for real estate foreclosure of vacant and abandoned property and for sheriff's commission and creditor attorney fees.	An Act amending Title 68 (Real and Personal Property) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in real property, providing for real estate foreclosure of vacant and abandoned property and for sheriff's commission and creditor attorney fees.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	HB 653	Pennsylvania HB 653 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Masser	2	28	8	2017-02-28T05:00:00+00:00	2018-06-19T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/4a35b291-9eaa-4b07-8452-ae3e588a513d	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=653	61b9992a7a7340fbd188f9297fb7e18b2a8739c28d771a8fcd421561a16049db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 653 (2017-2018) — An Act amending Title 68 (Real and Personal Property) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in real property, providing for real estate foreclosure of vacant and abandoned property and for sheriff's commission and creditor attorney fees.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 0692 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 3613 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 653 PN 692, A5635, HUGHES AMENDMENT NO. A-5635 — 16–33 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 195–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 653 PN 692, A5634, LEACH AMENDMENT NO. A-5634 — 16–33 (fail) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 47–2 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (URBAN AFFAIRS AND HOUSING): Reported as Committed — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 653 PN 3613, CONCUR — 191–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 25–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 653 PN 692, 2017 A1054, SUSP RULES, DELUCA — 79–112 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Masser — primary (person)
• A. Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Barbin — cosponsor (person)
• Barrar — cosponsor (person)
• Cox — cosponsor (person)
• Day — cosponsor (person)
• Dunbar — cosponsor (person)
• Helm — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• James — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Longietti — cosponsor (person)
• M. K. Keller — cosponsor (person)
• Millard — cosponsor (person)
• Neilson — cosponsor (person)
• Pashinski — cosponsor (person)
• Schlossberg — cosponsor (person)
• Simmons — cosponsor (person)
• Solomon — cosponsor (person)
• Staats — cosponsor (person)
• Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)
• Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 PN 0692 Referred to URBAN AFFAIRS referral-committee
• 2017-04-25T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-04-25T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-04-25T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2017-04-26T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2017-05-08T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2017-05-08T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2017-05-09T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-05-09T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to URBAN AFFAIRS AND HOUSING referral-committee
• 2017-06-27T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-06-27T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2017-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-01-29T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-04-16T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2018-04-16T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2018-06-05T04:00:00+00:00 PN 3613 Amended on third consideration
• 2018-06-05T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2018-06-05T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2018-06-06T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2018-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2018-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2018-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2018-06-12T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2018-06-12T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4a35b291-9eaa-4b07-8452-ae3e588a513d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).