republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/hb-790.md

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Bill	An Act Amending Title 3 (Agriculture) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, regulating controlled plants and noxious weeds; establishing the Controlled Plant and Noxious Weed Committee; providing for powers and duties of the Controlled Plant and Noxious Weed Committee; imposing powers and duties on the Secretary of Agriculture and municipalities; prescribing penalties; establishing a category of controlled plants and providing for the permitting of controlled plants; abrogating regulations; and making related repeals.	An Act Amending Title 3 (Agriculture) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, regulating controlled plants and noxious weeds; establishing the Controlled Plant and Noxious Weed Committee; providing for powers and duties of the Controlled Plant and Noxious Weed Committee; imposing powers and duties on the Secretary of Agriculture and municipalities; prescribing penalties; establishing a category of controlled plants and providing for the permitting of controlled plants; abrogating regulations; and making related repeals.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	HB 790	Pennsylvania HB 790 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Pashinski	5	24	6	2017-03-10T05:00:00+00:00	2017-10-30T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c94eafd3-61df-44ef-bad1-011d4578af8b	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=790	ebcf79a1bb761281cb8a67687c7515d723a2b91488fae1801cd72f5b4b6f668d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 790 (2017-2018) — An Act Amending Title 3 (Agriculture) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, regulating controlled plants and noxious weeds; establishing the Controlled Plant and Noxious Weed Committee; providing for powers and duties of the Controlled Plant and Noxious Weed Committee; imposing powers and duties on the Secretary of Agriculture and municipalities; prescribing penalties; establishing a category of controlled plants and providing for the permitting of controlled plants; abrogating regulations; and making related repeals.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 0869 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 1570 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 1701 (committee substitute) — source
4. Printer's No. 2081 (committee substitute) — source
5. Printer's No. 2597 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS): Reported as Amended — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 25–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 194–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 790 PN 1570, 2017 A1177, CAUSER — 196–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 790 PN 2597, CONCUR — 184–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pashinski — primary (person)
• Barbin — cosponsor (person)
• Boyle — cosponsor (person)
• Briggs — cosponsor (person)
• Caltagirone — cosponsor (person)
• Causer — cosponsor (person)
• D. Costa — cosponsor (person)
• Daley — cosponsor (person)
• Dean — cosponsor (person)
• Donatucci — cosponsor (person)
• Everett — cosponsor (person)
• Flynn — cosponsor (person)
• Gainey — cosponsor (person)
• Haggerty — cosponsor (person)
• Kavulich — cosponsor (person)
• Kim — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Mccarter — cosponsor (person)
• Miccarelli — cosponsor (person)
• O'Brien — cosponsor (person)
• Rabb — cosponsor (person)
• Schweyer — cosponsor (person)
• Solomon — cosponsor (person)
• Sturla — cosponsor (person)
• V. Brown — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 PN 0869 Referred to AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS referral-committee
• 2017-04-26T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1570 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-04-26T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-04-26T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2017-05-08T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2017-05-09T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1701 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2017-05-09T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2017-05-22T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-05-22T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-05-31T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS referral-committee
• 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2081 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-07-08T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2017-07-08T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2017-10-16T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2597 Amended on third consideration
• 2017-10-18T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-10-18T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2017-10-24T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2017-10-24T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2017-10-24T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2017-10-25T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2017-10-25T04:00:00+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/c94eafd3-61df-44ef-bad1-011d4578af8b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).