republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/sb-916.md

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Bill	An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 44 (Law and Justice) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in post-trial matters, further providing for postconviction DNA testing; in DNA data and testing, further providing for policy, for definitions, for powers and duties of State Police, for State DNA Data Base, for State DNA Data Bank, for State Police recommendation of additional offenses, for procedural compatibility with FBI and for DNA sample required upon conviction, delinquency adjudication and certain ARD cases, providing for collection from persons accepted from other jurisdictions and further providing for procedures for withdrawal, collection and transmission of DNA samples, for procedures for conduct, disposition and use of DNA analysis, for DNA data base exchange and for expungement.	An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 44 (Law and Justice) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in post-trial matters, further providing for postconviction DNA testing; in DNA data and testing, further providing for policy, for definitions, for powers and duties of State Police, for State DNA Data Base, for State DNA Data Bank, for State Police recommendation of additional offenses, for procedural compatibility with FBI and for DNA sample required upon conviction, delinquency adjudication and certain ARD cases, providing for collection from persons accepted from other jurisdictions and further providing for procedures for withdrawal, collection and transmission of DNA samples, for procedures for conduct, disposition and use of DNA analysis, for DNA data base exchange and for expungement.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	SB 916	Pennsylvania SB 916 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Greenleaf	2	23	6	2018-03-15T04:00:00+00:00	2018-10-24T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/dfc4e4bf-399a-4e03-a383-718b039af2a1	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=S&type=B&BN=916	bafc1433ea431f12047168d9ba99d5b2ad00418f4cb73c667259be0f971af972	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania SB 916 (2017-2018) — An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 44 (Law and Justice) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in post-trial matters, further providing for postconviction DNA testing; in DNA data and testing, further providing for policy, for definitions, for powers and duties of State Police, for State DNA Data Base, for State DNA Data Bank, for State Police recommendation of additional offenses, for procedural compatibility with FBI and for DNA sample required upon conviction, delinquency adjudication and certain ARD cases, providing for collection from persons accepted from other jurisdictions and further providing for procedures for withdrawal, collection and transmission of DNA samples, for procedures for conduct, disposition and use of DNA analysis, for DNA data base exchange and for expungement.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 1535 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 2086 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 187–3 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 26–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Committed — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Greenleaf — primary (person)
• Bartolotta — cosponsor (person)
• Boscola — cosponsor (person)
• Brewster — cosponsor (person)
• Browne — cosponsor (person)
• Farnese — cosponsor (person)
• Fontana — cosponsor (person)
• Haywood — cosponsor (person)
• Leach — cosponsor (person)
• Reschenthaler — cosponsor (person)
• Scarnati — cosponsor (person)
• Vogel — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)
• White — cosponsor (person)
• Yudichak — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1535 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2018-03-19T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-03-19T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2018-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-04-16T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-04-17T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2018-10-09T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2086 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-10-09T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-10-09T04:00:00+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
• 2018-10-16T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-10-16T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-10-16T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Senate concurred in House amendments
• 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/dfc4e4bf-399a-4e03-a383-718b039af2a1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).