republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2019-2020/hb-1838.md

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Bill	An Act amending Titles 35 (Health and Safety) and 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in emergency medical services system, further providing for support of emergency medical services; in general provisions, further providing for EMS costs; and, in driving after imbibing alcohol or utilizing drugs, further providing for Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition.	An Act amending Titles 35 (Health and Safety) and 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in emergency medical services system, further providing for support of emergency medical services; in general provisions, further providing for EMS costs; and, in driving after imbibing alcohol or utilizing drugs, further providing for Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	HB 1838	Pennsylvania HB 1838 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	Causer	5	23	6	2019-09-19T04:00:00+00:00	2020-10-29T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/51f1e0db-ede2-439c-bfb2-6518f4fc5a40	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1838	350c1d7dcaf9c9c7ca3ea2fc07afcc0ad59d483c4a27bf26c80af4d7c7c285ac	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 1838 (2019-2020) — An Act amending Titles 35 (Health and Safety) and 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in emergency medical services system, further providing for support of emergency medical services; in general provisions, further providing for EMS costs; and, in driving after imbibing alcohol or utilizing drugs, further providing for Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition.

Version chain

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

1. House Amendment A03162 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 2523 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 2781 (committee substitute) — source
4. Printer's No. 3590 (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Amendment A05135 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Reported as Committed — 23–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1838 PN 3590, CONCUR — 202–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS): Reported as Amended — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1838 PN 2523, 2019 A3162, CAUSER — 196–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 195–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Causer — primary (person)
• Barrar — cosponsor (person)
• Ciresi — cosponsor (person)
• Farry — cosponsor (person)
• Gaydos — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Owlett — cosponsor (person)
• Pickett — cosponsor (person)
• Polinchock — cosponsor (person)
• Pyle — cosponsor (person)
• Rapp — cosponsor (person)
• Sainato — cosponsor (person)
• Sappey — cosponsor (person)
• Schlegel Culver — cosponsor (person)
• Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• Warner — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-09-19T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2523 Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS referral-committee
• 2019-09-24T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-09-24T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-09-24T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2019-10-22T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2019-10-23T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2781 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2019-10-23T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-10-28T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-10-28T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-10-31T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS referral-committee
• 2020-04-20T04:00:00+00:00 PN 3590 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2020-04-20T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2020-04-21T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2020-04-21T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2020-09-21T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2020-10-19T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2020-10-20T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2020-10-20T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2020-10-20T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2020-10-20T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2020-10-21T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2020-10-21T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-10-29T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51f1e0db-ede2-439c-bfb2-6518f4fc5a40. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).