republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/sb-978.md

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Bill	An Act providing for the disposal of hospice or home health care patient medication.	An Act providing for the disposal of hospice or home health care patient medication.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	SB 978	Pennsylvania SB 978 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Baker	2	21	5	2017-12-06T05:00:00+00:00	2018-06-28T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6c598aff-835e-4483-8fee-458c69d22d4e	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=S&type=B&BN=978	10bbfcbccd802148a0b528ec9ea97510c629ec31bc721202218771a6c6e57b6f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania SB 978 (2017-2018) — An Act providing for the disposal of hospice or home health care patient medication.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 1367 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 1860 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• CONCUR IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES): Reported as Committed — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 198–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Baker — primary (person)
• Argall — cosponsor (person)
• Aument — cosponsor (person)
• Fontana — cosponsor (person)
• Gordner — cosponsor (person)
• Killion — cosponsor (person)
• Rafferty — 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)
• Yudichak — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-12-06T05:00:00+00:00 PN 1367 Referred to HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES referral-committee
• 2017-12-12T05:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-12-12T05:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-01-22T05:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2018-01-23T05:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-01-25T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to HEALTH referral-committee
• 2018-06-12T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1860 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-06-12T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-06-12T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2018-06-13T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2018-06-18T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2018-06-18T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-06-20T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2018-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Senate concurred in House amendments
• 2018-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6c598aff-835e-4483-8fee-458c69d22d4e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).