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Bill	An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in preliminary provisions, providing for career information and recruitment; in terms and courses of study, further providing for Commission for Agricultural Education Excellence; in vocational education, further providing for advisory committees, providing for a workforce development program clearinghouse and for PAsmart online career resource center, further providing for career and technical education equipment grants and providing for utilization of credits; establishing the Schools-to-Work Program and providing for powers and duties of the Department of Labor and Industry; providing for classification of program code; in transfers of credits between institutions of higher education, further providing for definitions, for duties of public institutions of higher education and State-related institutions, for Transfer and Articulation Oversight Committee and for duties of department; replacing references to "vocational-technical" with "career and technical," replacing references to "vocational" with "career and technical" and replacing references to "vocation" with "career and technical"; deleting references to vocational school districts; and renaming the State Board for Vocational Education as the State Board of Career and Technical Education.	An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in preliminary provisions, providing for career information and recruitment; in terms and courses of study, further providing for Commission for Agricultural Education Excellence; in vocational education, further providing for advisory committees, providing for a workforce development program clearinghouse and for PAsmart online career resource center, further providing for career and technical education equipment grants and providing for utilization of credits; establishing the Schools-to-Work Program and providing for powers and duties of the Department of Labor and Industry; providing for classification of program code; in transfers of credits between institutions of higher education, further providing for definitions, for duties of public institutions of higher education and State-related institutions, for Transfer and Articulation Oversight Committee and for duties of department; replacing references to "vocational-technical" with "career and technical," replacing references to "vocational" with "career and technical" and replacing references to "vocation" with "career and technical"; deleting references to vocational school districts; and renaming the State Board for Vocational Education as the State Board of Career and Technical Education.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	HB 265	Pennsylvania HB 265 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	Staats	9	30	10	2019-01-29T05:00:00+00:00	2019-10-30T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3a118317-9676-45d8-b371-b458020c7ee2	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=265	4d072355afb0703ec613a5e922ffac0df0a52fb09e6d1e3bbf606c2861965440	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 265 (2019-2020) — An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in preliminary provisions, providing for career information and recruitment; in terms and courses of study, further providing for Commission for Agricultural Education Excellence; in vocational education, further providing for advisory committees, providing for a workforce development program clearinghouse and for PAsmart online career resource center, further providing for career and technical education equipment grants and providing for utilization of credits; establishing the Schools-to-Work Program and providing for powers and duties of the Department of Labor and Industry; providing for classification of program code; in transfers of credits between institutions of higher education, further providing for definitions, for duties of public institutions of higher education and State-related institutions, for Transfer and Articulation Oversight Committee and for duties of department; replacing references to "vocational-technical" with "career and technical," replacing references to "vocational" with "career and technical" and replacing references to "vocation" with "career and technical"; deleting references to vocational school districts; and renaming the State Board for Vocational Education as the State Board of Career and Technical Education.

Version chain

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

1. House Amendment A02629 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 0236 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 2177 (committee substitute) — source
4. Printer's No. 2241 (committee substitute) — source
5. Printer's No. 2286 (committee substitute) — source
6. Printer's No. 2579 (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Amendment A02162 (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Amendment A02514 (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Amendment A02929 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 23–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (EDUCATION): Reported as Amended — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 265 PN 2241, 2019 A2629, DERMODY — 197–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 265 PN 2241, 2019 A2629, SUSP RULES, DERMODY — 194–3 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS): Re-Reported as Amended — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCURRENCE IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS AS AMENDED — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 195–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 265 PN 2579, CONCUR — 197–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 265 PN 2286, CONCUR — 197–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Staats — primary (person)
• Barrar — cosponsor (person)
• Boback — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Carroll — cosponsor (person)
• D. Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Deasy — cosponsor (person)
• Farry — cosponsor (person)
• Fee — cosponsor (person)
• Gabler — cosponsor (person)
• Gleim — cosponsor (person)
• Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• James — cosponsor (person)
• Jozwiak — cosponsor (person)
• Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
• Kenyatta — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Mizgorski — cosponsor (person)
• Moul — cosponsor (person)
• Mullery — cosponsor (person)
• Murt — cosponsor (person)
• Neilson — cosponsor (person)
• Oberlander — cosponsor (person)
• Pashinski — cosponsor (person)
• Pickett — cosponsor (person)
• Polinchock — cosponsor (person)
• Quinn — cosponsor (person)
• Rader — cosponsor (person)
• Rapp — cosponsor (person)
• Roebuck — cosponsor (person)
• Saylor — cosponsor (person)
• Simmons — cosponsor (person)
• Solomon — cosponsor (person)
• Struzzi — cosponsor (person)
• T. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Williams — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-29T05:00:00+00:00 PN 0236 Referred to EDUCATION referral-committee
• 2019-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2019-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2019-03-18T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-03-18T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-03-19T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-03-19T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to EDUCATION referral-committee
• 2019-06-18T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2177 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-06-18T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-06-24T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2241 Amended on third consideration
• 2019-06-27T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-06-27T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2019-06-27T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2019-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2286 House concurred in Senate amendments, as amended by the House amendment-passage
• 2019-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-09-24T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2579 Re-reported on concurrence, as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-09-25T04:00:00+00:00 Senate concurred in House amendments to Senate amendments, as amended by the Senate amendment-passage
• 2019-09-25T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2019-09-25T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2019-09-25T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments to House amendments, as amended by the Senate amendment-passage
• 2019-09-25T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2019-10-21T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2019-10-22T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-10-30T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3a118317-9676-45d8-b371-b458020c7ee2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).