republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/sb-844.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in child custody, further providing for standing for any form of physical custody or legal custody, for standing for partial physical custody and supervised physical custody and for consideration of criminal conviction.	An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in child custody, further providing for standing for any form of physical custody or legal custody, for standing for partial physical custody and supervised physical custody and for consideration of criminal conviction.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	SB 844	Pennsylvania SB 844 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	White	3	24	6	2017-09-06T04:00:00+00:00	2018-05-04T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0e755c7a-8167-4eca-a04b-ea98bba42a9a	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=S&type=B&BN=844	92ce7365271d5c9b6edc029ba5bbf034068f6db2c087a060ed37b0679baab4bb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania SB 844 (2017-2018) — An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in child custody, further providing for standing for any form of physical custody or legal custody, for standing for partial physical custody and supervised physical custody and for consideration of criminal conviction.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 1133 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 1375 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 1531 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 189–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Committed — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 844 PN 1133, A4768, WHITE AMENDMENT NO. A-4768 — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• White — primary (person)
• Eichelberger — cosponsor (person)
• Folmer — cosponsor (person)
• Rafferty — cosponsor (person)
• Reschenthaler — cosponsor (person)
• Stefano — cosponsor (person)
• Tartaglione — cosponsor (person)
• Yaw — cosponsor (person)
• Yudichak — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-09-06T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1133 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2017-10-03T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-10-03T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-10-18T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2017-11-15T05:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2017-11-15T05:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2017-12-11T05:00:00+00:00 PN 1375 Amended on third consideration
• 2017-12-12T05:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-12-13T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1531 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2018-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2018-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2018-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-04-11T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-04-11T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-04-16T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-04-17T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2018-04-18T04:00:00+00:00 Senate concurred in House amendments
• 2018-04-18T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2018-04-30T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2018-05-01T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-04T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0e755c7a-8167-4eca-a04b-ea98bba42a9a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).