republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2023-2024/sb-1237.md

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Bill	An Act amending the act of December 10, 1974 (P.L.852, No.287), referred to as the Underground Utility Line Protection Law, further providing for definitions, for duties of facility owners, for duties of designers, for duties of excavators, for duties of project owners, for damage prevention committee, for compliance orders and for administrative penalties; providing for action for recovery of penalty or forfeiture; and further providing for expiration of act.	An Act amending the act of December 10, 1974 (P.L.852, No.287), referred to as the Underground Utility Line Protection Law, further providing for definitions, for duties of facility owners, for duties of designers, for duties of excavators, for duties of project owners, for damage prevention committee, for compliance orders and for administrative penalties; providing for action for recovery of penalty or forfeiture; and further providing for expiration of act.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2023-2024	SB 1237	Pennsylvania SB 1237 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Lisa Baker	7	25	11	2024-06-06T04:00:00+00:00	2024-10-29T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7e3bdcd4-a24d-47cc-9bdb-94e039e926b4	https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=62&rollcallid=2583&sessYr=2023&sessInd=0	e2da5cde333353f8808b94acc4ff480ae19d726650ba4cb6efef01e01b4764a7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania SB 1237 (2023-2024) — An Act amending the act of December 10, 1974 (P.L.852, No.287), referred to as the Underground Utility Line Protection Law, further providing for definitions, for duties of facility owners, for duties of designers, for duties of excavators, for duties of project owners, for damage prevention committee, for compliance orders and for administrative penalties; providing for action for recovery of penalty or forfeiture; and further providing for expiration of act.

Version chain

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

1. House Amendment A05868 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. PN1689 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. PN1889 (committee substitute) — source
4. Printer's No. PN1917 (committee substitute) — source
5. Printer's No. PN1950 (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Amendment A05610 (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Amendment A05684 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities): Report Bill As Committed — 25–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — 23–0 (pass) · upper
• BAKER AMENDMENT NO. A-5684 — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Rules & Executive Nominations): Re-Reported as Committed — 17–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure): Adopt Amendment — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 196–6 (pass) · lower
• A5868 — 201–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure): Reported as Amended — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lisa Baker — primary (person)
• Camera Bartolotta — cosponsor (person)
• Jay Costa — cosponsor (person)
• Judith Schwank — cosponsor (person)
• Judy Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Lynda Schlegel Culver — cosponsor (person)
• Nick Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Santarsiero — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-06T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure referral-committee
• 2024-09-17T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as amended amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-09-17T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2024-09-18T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2024-09-30T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-09-30T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2024-09-30T04:00:00+00:00 Amended on third consideration amendment-passage
• 2024-10-01T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2024-10-02T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities referral-committee
• 2024-10-07T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2024-10-07T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2024-10-07T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2024-10-07T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2024-10-08T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2024-10-08T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-10-22T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2024-10-22T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2024-10-22T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Rules & Executive Nominations referral-committee
• 2024-10-22T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2024-10-22T04:00:00+00:00 Senate concurred in House amendments
• 2024-10-23T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2024-10-23T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2024-10-23T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-10-29T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-10-29T04:00:00+00:00 Act No. 127 of 2024

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7e3bdcd4-a24d-47cc-9bdb-94e039e926b4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).