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Bill An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in preliminary provisions, further providing for Keystone Exams; in organization meetings and officers of boards of school directors, providing for executive sessions; in duties and powers of boards of school directors, providing for third-party services; in grounds and buildings, further providing for limitation on new applications for Department of Education approval of public school building projects and providing for lead testing; in books, furniture and supplies, further providing for time and manner of adopting and furnishing textbooks and supplementary books; in professional employees, further providing for persons to be suspended; in certification of teachers, further providing for provisional vocational education certificate; in pupils and attendance, further providing for definitions, providing for attendance policy at nonpublic schools and further providing for excuses from attending school, for penalties for violating compulsory school attendance requirements and for nonprofit school food program; in Drug and Alcohol Recovery High School Pilot Program, further providing for term of program and for reporting; in terms and courses of study, further providing for fire and emergency evacuation drills; in community colleges, further providing for financial program and reimbursement of payments; in educational tax credits, further providing for definitions, for qualification and application by organizations, for application by business firms, for tax credits and for limitations; providing for higher education accountability and transparency; in funding for public libraries, providing for State aid for fiscal year 2018-2019; and, in reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for payments to intermediate units, for assistance to school districts declared to be in financial recovery status or identified for financial watch status and for Ready-to-Learn Block Grant. An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in preliminary provisions, further providing for Keystone Exams; in organization meetings and officers of boards of school directors, providing for executive sessions; in duties and powers of boards of school directors, providing for third-party services; in grounds and buildings, further providing for limitation on new applications for Department of Education approval of public school building projects and providing for lead testing; in books, furniture and supplies, further providing for time and manner of adopting and furnishing textbooks and supplementary books; in professional employees, further providing for persons to be suspended; in certification of teachers, further providing for provisional vocational education certificate; in pupils and attendance, further providing for definitions, providing for attendance policy at nonpublic schools and further providing for excuses from attending school, for penalties for violating compulsory school attendance requirements and for nonprofit school food program; in Drug and Alcohol Recovery High School Pilot Program, further providing for term of program and for reporting; in terms and courses of study, further providing for fire and emergency evacuation drills; in community colleges, further providing for financial program and reimbursement of payments; in educational tax credits, further providing for definitions, for qualification and application by organizations, for application by business firms, for tax credits and for limitations; providing for higher education accountability and transparency; in funding for public libraries, providing for State aid for fiscal year 2018-2019; and, in reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for payments to intermediate units, for assistance to school districts declared to be in financial recovery status or identified for financial watch status and for Ready-to-Learn Block Grant. us/states/pa Pennsylvania General Assembly 2017-2018 HB 1448 Pennsylvania HB 1448 (2017-2018)
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Pennsylvania HB 1448 (2017-2018) — An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in preliminary provisions, further providing for Keystone Exams; in organization meetings and officers of boards of school directors, providing for executive sessions; in duties and powers of boards of school directors, providing for third-party services; in grounds and buildings, further providing for limitation on new applications for Department of Education approval of public school building projects and providing for lead testing; in books, furniture and supplies, further providing for time and manner of adopting and furnishing textbooks and supplementary books; in professional employees, further providing for persons to be suspended; in certification of teachers, further providing for provisional vocational education certificate; in pupils and attendance, further providing for definitions, providing for attendance policy at nonpublic schools and further providing for excuses from attending school, for penalties for violating compulsory school attendance requirements and for nonprofit school food program; in Drug and Alcohol Recovery High School Pilot Program, further providing for term of program and for reporting; in terms and courses of study, further providing for fire and emergency evacuation drills; in community colleges, further providing for financial program and reimbursement of payments; in educational tax credits, further providing for definitions, for qualification and application by organizations, for application by business firms, for tax credits and for limitations; providing for higher education accountability and transparency; in funding for public libraries, providing for State aid for fiscal year 2018-2019; and, in reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for payments to intermediate units, for assistance to school districts declared to be in financial recovery status or identified for financial watch status and for Ready-to-Learn Block Grant.

Version chain

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

  1. Printer's No. 1848 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Printer's No. 2060 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Printer's No. 2109 (committee substitute) — source
  4. Printer's No. 2921 (committee substitute) — source
  5. Printer's No. 3811 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 250 (pass) · upper
  • FINAL PASSAGE — 500 (pass) · upper
  • HB 1448 PN 2060, 2017 A2157, SIMS — 1920 (pass) · lower
  • Committee vote (EDUCATION): Reported as Committed — 110 (pass) · upper
  • CONCUR IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO SENATE AMENDMENTS — 444 (pass) · upper
  • Committee vote (RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 180 (pass) · upper
  • HB 1448 PN 3811, CONCUR — 1931 (pass) · lower
  • FINAL PASSAGE — 1970 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Cutler — primary (person)
  • B. Miller — cosponsor (person)
  • Fee — cosponsor (person)
  • Greiner — cosponsor (person)
  • Hickernell — cosponsor (person)
  • Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
  • James — cosponsor (person)
  • Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
  • Kortz — cosponsor (person)
  • Miccarelli — cosponsor (person)
  • Millard — cosponsor (person)
  • Oberlander — cosponsor (person)
  • Peifer — cosponsor (person)
  • Phillips-Hill — cosponsor (person)
  • Pickett — cosponsor (person)
  • Roebuck — cosponsor (person)
  • Saylor — cosponsor (person)
  • Solomon — cosponsor (person)
  • Topper — cosponsor (person)
  • V. Brown — cosponsor (person)
  • Ward — cosponsor (person)
  • Wheeland — cosponsor (person)
  • Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-05-25T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1848 Referred to EDUCATION referral-committee
  • 2017-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2060 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
  • 2017-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
  • 2017-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to RULES referral-committee
  • 2017-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
  • 2017-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2109 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
  • 2017-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
  • 2017-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
  • 2017-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
  • 2017-07-06T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to EDUCATION referral-committee
  • 2017-10-24T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
  • 2017-10-24T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
  • 2017-10-25T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
  • 2017-10-25T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
  • 2017-12-11T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
  • 2018-01-23T05:00:00+00:00 PN 2921 Amended on third consideration
  • 2018-01-24T05:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
  • 2018-02-05T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
  • 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 PN 3811 Amended in House Committee on RULES
  • 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
  • 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments, as amended by the House amendment-passage
  • 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS referral-committee
  • 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
  • 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Senate concurred in House amendments to Senate amendments
  • 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
  • 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
  • 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9525df5f-8886-4fc8-abae-cd6d42897889. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).