republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/hb-1216.md

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Bill	An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in riot, disorderly conduct and related offenses, further providing for definitions, for the offense of neglect of animal and for the offense of attack of guide dog; in trade and commerce, further providing for the offense of discrimination on account of guide, signal or service dog or other aid animal; and, in particular rights and immunities, providing for rescue from motor vehicle.	An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in riot, disorderly conduct and related offenses, further providing for definitions, for the offense of neglect of animal and for the offense of attack of guide dog; in trade and commerce, further providing for the offense of discrimination on account of guide, signal or service dog or other aid animal; and, in particular rights and immunities, providing for rescue from motor vehicle.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	HB 1216	Pennsylvania HB 1216 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Farry	6	25	8	2017-04-17T04:00:00+00:00	2018-10-24T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/48837216-cc16-4462-9e52-c4c63518439b	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1216	f3f2bcee8b24f3bc06151c7065494a2a7e7e0a2b95b6b5039b254933789b5bc1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 1216 (2017-2018) — An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in riot, disorderly conduct and related offenses, further providing for definitions, for the offense of neglect of animal and for the offense of attack of guide dog; in trade and commerce, further providing for the offense of discrimination on account of guide, signal or service dog or other aid animal; and, in particular rights and immunities, providing for rescue from motor vehicle.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 1444 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 2166 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 2203 (committee substitute) — source
4. Printer's No. 3608 (committee substitute) — source
5. Printer's No. 3819 (committee substitute) — source
6. Printer's No. 4274 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Amended — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1216 PN 3819, CONCUR — 181–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1216 PN 2166, 2017 A2552, KNOWLES — 50–149 (fail) · lower
• HB 1216 PN 2166, 2017 A2459, MOT RECON, HARRIS, J. — 95–104 (fail) · lower
• HB 1216 PN 2166, 2017 A2553, P. COSTA — 195–5 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 190–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1216 PN 2166, 2017 A2459, KNOWLES — 101–97 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Farry — primary (person)
• Barbin — cosponsor (person)
• Bullock — cosponsor (person)
• Charlton — cosponsor (person)
• Corbin — cosponsor (person)
• D. Costa — cosponsor (person)
• Daley — cosponsor (person)
• Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Dean — cosponsor (person)
• Deasy — cosponsor (person)
• Deluca — cosponsor (person)
• Digirolamo — cosponsor (person)
• Donatucci — cosponsor (person)
• Ellis — cosponsor (person)
• Freeman — cosponsor (person)
• Gillen — cosponsor (person)
• Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Krueger-Braneky — cosponsor (person)
• Madden — cosponsor (person)
• Masser — cosponsor (person)
• Mcneill — cosponsor (person)
• Millard — cosponsor (person)
• Neilson — cosponsor (person)
• Rader — cosponsor (person)
• Ravenstahl — cosponsor (person)
• Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Roe — cosponsor (person)
• Rozzi — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan — cosponsor (person)
• Sainato — cosponsor (person)
• Santora — cosponsor (person)
• Schlossberg — cosponsor (person)
• Solomon — cosponsor (person)
• V. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• W. Keller — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)
• Wheeland — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-04-17T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1444 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2017-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2166 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to RULES referral-committee
• 2017-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2203 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2017-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2017-07-07T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-07-07T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-07-14T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2018-06-05T04:00:00+00:00 PN 3608 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-06-05T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 PN 3819 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2018-09-24T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2018-09-24T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2018-10-16T04:00:00+00:00 PN 4274 Amended on third consideration
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 PN 3819 Motion to revert to Prior Printer's No. 3819
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2018-10-18T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-10-24T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/48837216-cc16-4462-9e52-c4c63518439b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).