republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/hb-1238.md

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Bill	An Act amending Titles 3 (Agriculture), 18 (Crimes and Offenses), 22 (Detectives and Private Police), 34 (Game) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in race horse industry reform, further providing for licenses for horse race meetings and for occupational licenses for individuals; in riot, disorderly conduct and related offenses, repealing provisions relating to offense of cruelty to animals, live animals as prizes prohibited, police animals and assault with a biological agent on animal, fowl or honey bees and providing for offenses relating to cruelty to animals; in humane society police officers, further providing for definitions, for appointment by nonprofit corporations, for qualifications for appointment, for suspension, revocation, limitation and restriction of appointment and restoration of appointment, for powers and authority and jurisdiction, for search warrants and for costs; in hunting and furtaking, further providing for destruction of dogs declared public nuisances; in budget and finance, further providing for municipal corporation portion of fines, etc; and making editorial changes.	An Act amending Titles 3 (Agriculture), 18 (Crimes and Offenses), 22 (Detectives and Private Police), 34 (Game) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in race horse industry reform, further providing for licenses for horse race meetings and for occupational licenses for individuals; in riot, disorderly conduct and related offenses, repealing provisions relating to offense of cruelty to animals, live animals as prizes prohibited, police animals and assault with a biological agent on animal, fowl or honey bees and providing for offenses relating to cruelty to animals; in humane society police officers, further providing for definitions, for appointment by nonprofit corporations, for qualifications for appointment, for suspension, revocation, limitation and restriction of appointment and restoration of appointment, for powers and authority and jurisdiction, for search warrants and for costs; in hunting and furtaking, further providing for destruction of dogs declared public nuisances; in budget and finance, further providing for municipal corporation portion of fines, etc; and making editorial changes.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	HB 1238	Pennsylvania HB 1238 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Stephens	2	20	7	2017-04-17T04:00:00+00:00	2017-06-28T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d0e74996-eb45-4579-8283-4dec6d9d7789	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1238	963a83d42a005681bdcba48280f9561cc88e0e3140bfd3f591862b20bd53e3d5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 1238 (2017-2018) — An Act amending Titles 3 (Agriculture), 18 (Crimes and Offenses), 22 (Detectives and Private Police), 34 (Game) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in race horse industry reform, further providing for licenses for horse race meetings and for occupational licenses for individuals; in riot, disorderly conduct and related offenses, repealing provisions relating to offense of cruelty to animals, live animals as prizes prohibited, police animals and assault with a biological agent on animal, fowl or honey bees and providing for offenses relating to cruelty to animals; in humane society police officers, further providing for definitions, for appointment by nonprofit corporations, for qualifications for appointment, for suspension, revocation, limitation and restriction of appointment and restoration of appointment, for powers and authority and jurisdiction, for search warrants and for costs; in hunting and furtaking, further providing for destruction of dogs declared public nuisances; in budget and finance, further providing for municipal corporation portion of fines, etc; and making editorial changes.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 1465 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 1565 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1238 PN 1465, 2017 A766, MARSICO — 191–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 167–20 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Committed — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 26–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1238 PN 1465, 2017 A931, MARSICO — 191–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1238 PN 1465, 2017 A932, KNOWLES — 65–126 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Stephens — primary (person)
• A. Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Barbin — cosponsor (person)
• Bizzarro — cosponsor (person)
• Boback — cosponsor (person)
• Charlton — cosponsor (person)
• Conklin — cosponsor (person)
• D. Costa — cosponsor (person)
• Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Dean — cosponsor (person)
• Deasy — cosponsor (person)
• Deluca — cosponsor (person)
• Donatucci — cosponsor (person)
• Driscoll — cosponsor (person)
• Farry — cosponsor (person)
• Freeman — cosponsor (person)
• Gillen — cosponsor (person)
• Greiner — cosponsor (person)
• J. Harris — cosponsor (person)
• James — cosponsor (person)
• Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Krueger-Braneky — cosponsor (person)
• Miccarelli — cosponsor (person)
• Millard — cosponsor (person)
• Milne — cosponsor (person)
• Murt — cosponsor (person)
• Neilson — cosponsor (person)
• O'Brien — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips-Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Ravenstahl — cosponsor (person)
• Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Roe — cosponsor (person)
• Sainato — cosponsor (person)
• Santora — cosponsor (person)
• Schlossberg — cosponsor (person)
• Schweyer — cosponsor (person)
• Staats — cosponsor (person)
• W. Keller — 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 1465 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2017-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2017-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2017-04-25T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1565 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2017-04-25T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2017-04-26T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-04-26T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-05-04T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2017-06-13T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-06-13T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2017-06-14T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2017-06-14T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2017-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2017-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2017-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2017-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d0e74996-eb45-4579-8283-4dec6d9d7789. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).