republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2019-2020/sb-478.md

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Bill	An Act amending the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971, providing for beginning farmer tax credit.	An Act amending the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971, providing for beginning farmer tax credit.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	SB 478	Pennsylvania SB 478 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	Vogel	7	23	6	2019-03-26T04:00:00+00:00	2019-07-02T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0bb53ed4-ff50-413c-b2d1-fd95694669b6	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=S&type=B&BN=478	9d99316b8cc0c21a3398e5e56d468674f32584865fd67058a8b0b451ff46a4ea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania SB 478 (2019-2020) — An Act amending the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971, providing for beginning farmer tax credit.

Version chain

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

1. House Amendment A01709 (committee substitute) — source
2. House Amendment A02407 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 0497 (committee substitute) — source
4. Printer's No. 0690 (committee substitute) — source
5. Printer's No. 0942 (committee substitute) — source
6. Printer's No. 1067 (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Amendment A00963 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 24–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 201–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (FINANCE): Reported as Amended — 10–1 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 17–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Vogel — primary (person)
• Aument — cosponsor (person)
• Baker — cosponsor (person)
• Blake — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Folmer — cosponsor (person)
• Gordner — cosponsor (person)
• J. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• K. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Killion — cosponsor (person)
• Langerholc — cosponsor (person)
• Regan — cosponsor (person)
• Schwank — cosponsor (person)
• Stefano — cosponsor (person)
• Street — cosponsor (person)
• Yaw — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 PN 0497 Referred to FINANCE referral-committee
• 2019-05-01T04:00:00+00:00 PN 0690 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-05-01T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-05-06T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-05-06T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-05-06T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-05-07T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-05-08T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to FINANCE referral-committee
• 2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 PN 0942 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2019-06-12T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2019-06-17T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-06-17T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1067 Re-reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2019-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Senate concurred in House amendments
• 2019-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2019-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2019-06-27T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-07-02T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0bb53ed4-ff50-413c-b2d1-fd95694669b6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).