republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2019-2020/hb-1538.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for parole procedure.	An Act amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for parole procedure.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	HB 1538	Pennsylvania HB 1538 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	White	3	25	5	2019-06-03T04:00:00+00:00	2020-11-25T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/566d1101-915e-4159-b905-16ad06f86f09	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1538	570bee0bfb9376c388a61eac8c39d88342799af92da0438fc315a9dba733794a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 1538 (2019-2020) — An Act amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for parole procedure.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 1955 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 3666 (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Amendment A05296 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Amended — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 194–7 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 46–3 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 21–3 (pass) · upper
• HB 1538 PN 3666, CONCUR — 168–33 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• White — primary (person)
• Bernstine — cosponsor (person)
• Deluca — cosponsor (person)
• Farry — cosponsor (person)
• Gillen — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• Kaufer — cosponsor (person)
• Lawrence — cosponsor (person)
• Masser — cosponsor (person)
• Mehaffie — cosponsor (person)
• Moul — cosponsor (person)
• Pickett — cosponsor (person)
• Pyle — cosponsor (person)
• Quinn — cosponsor (person)
• Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Struzzi — cosponsor (person)
• T. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Tomlinson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-06-03T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1955 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to RULES referral-committee
• 2019-06-18T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-06-18T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-06-18T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2020-04-29T04:00:00+00:00 PN 3666 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2020-04-29T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2020-05-13T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2020-05-13T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2020-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2020-09-09T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2020-09-09T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2020-10-21T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2020-10-26T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2020-11-18T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2020-11-18T05:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2020-11-18T05:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2020-11-18T05:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2020-11-19T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-11-25T05:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/566d1101-915e-4159-b905-16ad06f86f09. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).