republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/hb-1139.md

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Bill	An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in offenses against the family, further providing for newborn protection; in child protective services, further providing for taking child into protective custody; and, in newborn protection, further providing for definitions and for health care providers accepting newborns, providing for emergency services providers accepting newborns and for incubators for newborns and further providing for reporting acceptance of newborns, for immunity and for duties of department.	An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in offenses against the family, further providing for newborn protection; in child protective services, further providing for taking child into protective custody; and, in newborn protection, further providing for definitions and for health care providers accepting newborns, providing for emergency services providers accepting newborns and for incubators for newborns and further providing for reporting acceptance of newborns, for immunity and for duties of department.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	HB 1139	Pennsylvania HB 1139 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Topper	4	24	4	2017-04-10T04:00:00+00:00	2017-12-22T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/47adb1d5-047f-490b-b2dd-75fd06263719	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1139	c1d5af119db6b0afdc4168c35b4ad82c2c3db6f8de6c6eb9ed176ae27143b9ac	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 1139 (2017-2018) — An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in offenses against the family, further providing for newborn protection; in child protective services, further providing for taking child into protective custody; and, in newborn protection, further providing for definitions and for health care providers accepting newborns, providing for emergency services providers accepting newborns and for incubators for newborns and further providing for reporting acceptance of newborns, for immunity and for duties of department.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 1338 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 1986 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 2520 (committee substitute) — source
4. Printer's No. 2802 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 194–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1139 PN 2802, CONCUR — 188–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Amended — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Topper — primary (person)
• A. Harris — cosponsor (person)
• B. Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Barbin — cosponsor (person)
• Bloom — cosponsor (person)
• Cutler — cosponsor (person)
• Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Miccarelli — cosponsor (person)
• Millard — cosponsor (person)
• Oberlander — cosponsor (person)
• Rapp — cosponsor (person)
• Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Roe — cosponsor (person)
• Rozzi — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan — cosponsor (person)
• Sankey — cosponsor (person)
• Toohil — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Wheeland — cosponsor (person)
• Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-04-10T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1338 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2017-06-13T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1986 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-06-13T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-06-13T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to RULES referral-committee
• 2017-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2017-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2017-10-03T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2520 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-10-03T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-10-18T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2017-11-15T05:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2017-11-15T05:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2017-12-11T05:00:00+00:00 PN 2802 Amended on third consideration
• 2017-12-12T05:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-12-12T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2017-12-12T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2017-12-13T05:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2017-12-13T05:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2017-12-13T05:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2017-12-13T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-12-22T05:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/47adb1d5-047f-490b-b2dd-75fd06263719. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).