republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/sb-1078.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 65 (Public Officers) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in open meetings, further providing for executive sessions.	An Act amending Title 65 (Public Officers) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in open meetings, further providing for executive sessions.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	SB 1078	Pennsylvania SB 1078 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Tomlinson	1	18	3	2018-03-20T04:00:00+00:00	2018-10-24T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/fe723ee9-93a7-4537-899c-df8b6096e431	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=S&type=B&BN=1078	1c08040844c157dda37884d8c8d7cc45cb5a4ba6d00b08d647e9ab7a953cce2b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania SB 1078 (2017-2018) — An Act amending Title 65 (Public Officers) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in open meetings, further providing for executive sessions.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 1560 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (STATE GOVERNMENT): Reported as Committed — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 177–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Tomlinson — primary (person)
• Argall — cosponsor (person)
• Aument — cosponsor (person)
• Baker — cosponsor (person)
• Bartolotta — cosponsor (person)
• Browne — cosponsor (person)
• Dinniman — cosponsor (person)
• Eichelberger — cosponsor (person)
• Folmer — cosponsor (person)
• Killion — cosponsor (person)
• Martin — cosponsor (person)
• Mensch — cosponsor (person)
• Rafferty — cosponsor (person)
• Regan — cosponsor (person)
• Reschenthaler — cosponsor (person)
• Scarnati — cosponsor (person)
• Stefano — cosponsor (person)
• Vogel — cosponsor (person)
• Vulakovich — cosponsor (person)
• Wagner — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Yaw — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-03-20T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1560 Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT referral-committee
• 2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-04-16T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2018-04-17T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT referral-committee
• 2018-09-25T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-09-25T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-09-25T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2018-10-02T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2018-10-10T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2018-10-10T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-10-11T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-10-11T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-10-12T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2018-10-15T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2018-10-15T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-10-24T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fe723ee9-93a7-4537-899c-df8b6096e431. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).