republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2017-2018/sb-1037.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, consolidating the Civil Service Act; providing for civil service reform in the areas of merit-based hiring, civil service applications, certification, examinations and promotions; and making related repeals.	An Act amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, consolidating the Civil Service Act; providing for civil service reform in the areas of merit-based hiring, civil service applications, certification, examinations and promotions; and making related repeals.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2017-2018	SB 1037	Pennsylvania SB 1037 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Folmer	2	20	4	2018-02-09T05:00:00+00:00	2018-06-28T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/623f9ef6-64e0-4485-9b6d-9f6df114826f	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2017&sind=0&body=S&type=B&BN=1037	fd8a7a409f5b8cd487303ee5e99ba993f763db9ddb34961e52e97c60fcbc086e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania SB 1037 (2017-2018) — An Act amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, consolidating the Civil Service Act; providing for civil service reform in the areas of merit-based hiring, civil service applications, certification, examinations and promotions; and making related repeals.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 1473 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 1781 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 195–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (STATE GOVERNMENT): Reported as Amended — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 26–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Folmer — primary (person)
• Alloway — cosponsor (person)
• Argall — cosponsor (person)
• Aument — cosponsor (person)
• Baker — cosponsor (person)
• Bartolotta — cosponsor (person)
• Blake — cosponsor (person)
• Boscola — cosponsor (person)
• Dinniman — cosponsor (person)
• Eichelberger — cosponsor (person)
• Fontana — cosponsor (person)
• Killion — cosponsor (person)
• Langerholc — cosponsor (person)
• Laughlin — cosponsor (person)
• Leach — cosponsor (person)
• Martin — cosponsor (person)
• Mensch — cosponsor (person)
• Rafferty — cosponsor (person)
• Reschenthaler — cosponsor (person)
• Scarnati — cosponsor (person)
• Schwank — cosponsor (person)
• Stefano — cosponsor (person)
• Street — cosponsor (person)
• Tartaglione — cosponsor (person)
• Vulakovich — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)
• White — cosponsor (person)
• Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Yaw — cosponsor (person)
• Yudichak — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-09T05:00:00+00:00 PN 1473 Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT referral-committee
• 2018-05-22T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1781 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-05-22T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-05-23T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2018-05-23T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-06-04T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-06-05T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-06-08T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT referral-committee
• 2018-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2018-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2018-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2018-06-20T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2018-06-20T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2018-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2018-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2018-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/623f9ef6-64e0-4485-9b6d-9f6df114826f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).