republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2019-2020/sb-9.md

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Bill	An Act designating the Eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) as the official amphibian of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.	An Act designating the Eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) as the official amphibian of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	SB 9	Pennsylvania SB 9 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	Yaw	1	18	3	2019-01-23T05:00:00+00:00	2019-04-23T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/bf5382a1-5b42-45b3-a90b-b4e2a9268e2b	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=S&type=B&BN=9	a9388dab19a01041560da6c8cde82dc936d4725b726facd978267351aedb6615	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania SB 9 (2019-2020) — An Act designating the Eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) as the official amphibian of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 0043 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 48–1 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 191–6 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (STATE GOVERNMENT): Reported as Committed — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Yaw — primary (person)
• Alloway — cosponsor (person)
• Folmer — cosponsor (person)
• Killion — cosponsor (person)
• Regan — cosponsor (person)
• Scarnati — cosponsor (person)
• Vogel — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-23T05:00:00+00:00 PN 0043 Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT referral-committee
• 2019-01-29T05:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-01-29T05:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-01-30T05:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-05T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT referral-committee
• 2019-02-19T05:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-02-19T05:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-02-19T05:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2019-04-10T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2019-04-15T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-04-15T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-04-16T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-04-16T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-23T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2019-04-17T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2019-04-23T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-23T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bf5382a1-5b42-45b3-a90b-b4e2a9268e2b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).