republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/hb-1539.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in standby guardianship, further providing for definitions and for scope and providing for temporary guardianship; in child protective services, further providing for release of information in confidential reports; and making editorial changes.	An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in standby guardianship, further providing for definitions and for scope and providing for temporary guardianship; in child protective services, further providing for release of information in confidential reports; and making editorial changes.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	HB 1539	Pennsylvania HB 1539 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Pashinski	3	20	4	2017-06-13T04:00:00+00:00	2018-10-23T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/eeb637d3-aa72-447e-bf60-b6427fa269e4	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1539	2918ba0c0c3066abd78d2266d5219eee12356f9188a7c27b35bafcc87e1658b2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 1539 (2017-2018) — An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in standby guardianship, further providing for definitions and for scope and providing for temporary guardianship; in child protective services, further providing for release of information in confidential reports; and making editorial changes.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 1996 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 3311 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 3353 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Committed — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1539 PN 3311, 2017 A6458, TOOHIL — 195–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 192–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Pashinski — primary (person)
• Barbin — cosponsor (person)
• Bernstine — cosponsor (person)
• Bizzarro — cosponsor (person)
• Caltagirone — cosponsor (person)
• Comitta — cosponsor (person)
• Daley — cosponsor (person)
• Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Deluca — cosponsor (person)
• Dowling — cosponsor (person)
• Driscoll — cosponsor (person)
• English — cosponsor (person)
• Farry — cosponsor (person)
• Freeman — cosponsor (person)
• Harkins — cosponsor (person)
• Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Kinsey — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Madden — cosponsor (person)
• Mcclinton — cosponsor (person)
• Millard — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips-Hill — cosponsor (person)
• R. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Rothman — cosponsor (person)
• Rozzi — cosponsor (person)
• Sainato — cosponsor (person)
• Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
• Schlossberg — cosponsor (person)
• Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Toohil — cosponsor (person)
• Vazquez — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-06-13T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1996 Referred to CHILDREN AND YOUTH referral-committee
• 2018-04-10T04:00:00+00:00 PN 3311 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-04-10T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-04-10T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2018-04-11T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2018-04-16T04:00:00+00:00 PN 3353 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2018-04-16T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-04-17T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-04-17T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-04-30T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2018-06-12T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-06-12T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-06-13T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2018-10-01T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2018-10-01T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2018-10-16T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2018-10-17T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-10-23T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eeb637d3-aa72-447e-bf60-b6427fa269e4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).