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Bill	An Act amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in 911 emergency communication services, further providing for telecommunications management and providing for Nonprofit Security Grant Fund.	An Act amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in 911 emergency communication services, further providing for telecommunications management and providing for Nonprofit Security Grant Fund.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	HB 859	Pennsylvania HB 859 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	Barrar	5	24	5	2019-03-18T04:00:00+00:00	2019-11-07T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1419a808-0965-4eaa-8750-0bca98cc4d7f	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=859	b6abbb863c43a310a4446bc41ecaed7af1069b9c9a198d2499eaf41438d28dcc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 859 (2019-2020) — An Act amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in 911 emergency communication services, further providing for telecommunications management and providing for Nonprofit Security Grant Fund.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 0973 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 2086 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 2766 (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Amendment A01507 (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Amendment A03330 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS): Reported as Amended — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 23–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 859 PN 2766, CONCUR — 192–4 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 198–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barrar — primary (person)
• Boyle — cosponsor (person)
• Delloso — cosponsor (person)
• Deluca — cosponsor (person)
• Farry — cosponsor (person)
• Gillen — cosponsor (person)
• Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
• James — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Millard — cosponsor (person)
• Neilson — cosponsor (person)
• Pickett — cosponsor (person)
• Quinn — cosponsor (person)
• Rapp — cosponsor (person)
• Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan — cosponsor (person)
• Sainato — cosponsor (person)
• Saylor — cosponsor (person)
• T. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Wheeland — cosponsor (person)
• Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-18T04:00:00+00:00 PN 0973 Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS referral-committee
• 2019-03-20T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-03-20T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-03-20T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2019-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2019-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-04-08T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-04-08T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-22T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS referral-committee
• 2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2086 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-06-12T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-06-12T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-10-21T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-10-22T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2766 Amended on third consideration
• 2019-10-23T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-10-28T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2019-10-28T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2019-10-28T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2019-10-28T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2019-10-29T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2019-10-29T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-11-07T05:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1419a808-0965-4eaa-8750-0bca98cc4d7f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).