republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/sb-31.md

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Bill	An Act amending the act of June 26, 2001 (P.L.755, No.77), known as the Tobacco Settlement Act, in Commonwealth universal research enhancement, establishing the Spinal Cord Injury Research Program and Spinal Cord Research Advisory Committee, further providing for department responsibilities and for use of funds and providing for spinal cord injury research programs funding.	An Act amending the act of June 26, 2001 (P.L.755, No.77), known as the Tobacco Settlement Act, in Commonwealth universal research enhancement, establishing the Spinal Cord Injury Research Program and Spinal Cord Research Advisory Committee, further providing for department responsibilities and for use of funds and providing for spinal cord injury research programs funding.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	SB 31	Pennsylvania SB 31 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Scavello	1	22	4	2017-01-12T05:00:00+00:00	2018-10-24T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/152e880e-4ac0-4454-adaa-af7403d2ac76	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=S&type=B&BN=31	c7811cbfe886cf51998b2bb620d1c42f4ece796a11eaf21e28ceabfec1742b5f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania SB 31 (2017-2018) — An Act amending the act of June 26, 2001 (P.L.755, No.77), known as the Tobacco Settlement Act, in Commonwealth universal research enhancement, establishing the Spinal Cord Injury Research Program and Spinal Cord Research Advisory Committee, further providing for department responsibilities and for use of funds and providing for spinal cord injury research programs funding.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 0012 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 26–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 173–13 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES): Reported as Committed — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Scavello — primary (person)
• Blake — cosponsor (person)
• Brewster — cosponsor (person)
• Costa — cosponsor (person)
• Dinniman — cosponsor (person)
• Farnese — cosponsor (person)
• Greenleaf — cosponsor (person)
• Leach — cosponsor (person)
• Rafferty — cosponsor (person)
• Schwank — cosponsor (person)
• Tartaglione — cosponsor (person)
• Vulakovich — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-12T05:00:00+00:00 PN 0012 Referred to HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 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
• 2017-07-08T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table (Pursuant to Senate Rule 9)
• 2018-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-09-24T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-09-25T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-10-02T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to HUMAN SERVICES referral-committee
• 2018-10-11T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-10-11T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-10-11T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2018-10-11T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2018-10-15T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2018-10-15T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2018-10-18T04:00:00+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/152e880e-4ac0-4454-adaa-af7403d2ac76. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).