republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2019-2020/hb-1961.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in State Employees' Defined Contribution Plan, further providing for individual investment accounts, for participant contributions, for employer defined contributions, for vesting, for powers and duties of board, for investments based on participant's investment allocation choices and for expenses; in administration, funds, accounts and general provisions, further providing for administrative duties of the board and for taxation, attachment and assignment of funds; and making a related repeal.	An Act amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in State Employees' Defined Contribution Plan, further providing for individual investment accounts, for participant contributions, for employer defined contributions, for vesting, for powers and duties of board, for investments based on participant's investment allocation choices and for expenses; in administration, funds, accounts and general provisions, further providing for administrative duties of the board and for taxation, attachment and assignment of funds; and making a related repeal.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	HB 1961	Pennsylvania HB 1961 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	Schmitt	3	23	5	2019-10-18T04:00:00+00:00	2020-10-29T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/914a19e7-55a9-483f-a36c-5c13d40ddb95	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1961	274555de11226553109f4d7d6d265a221100b3e043f58773efe84e7816f75877	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 1961 (2019-2020) — An Act amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in State Employees' Defined Contribution Plan, further providing for individual investment accounts, for participant contributions, for employer defined contributions, for vesting, for powers and duties of board, for investments based on participant's investment allocation choices and for expenses; in administration, funds, accounts and general provisions, further providing for administrative duties of the board and for taxation, attachment and assignment of funds; and making a related repeal.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 2703 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 4478 (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Amendment A07564 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 202–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (FINANCE): Reported as Amended — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1961 PN 4478, CONCUR — 201–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 23–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Schmitt — primary (person)
• B. Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Bernstine — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Dush — cosponsor (person)
• Everett — cosponsor (person)
• Gillen — cosponsor (person)
• Gleim — cosponsor (person)
• Greiner — cosponsor (person)
• Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Keefer — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Millard — cosponsor (person)
• Moul — cosponsor (person)
• Owlett — cosponsor (person)
• Rader — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan — cosponsor (person)
• Tobash — cosponsor (person)
• Toohil — cosponsor (person)
• Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-10-18T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2703 Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT referral-committee
• 2019-10-22T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-10-22T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-10-22T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2019-10-28T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2019-11-18T05:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-11-18T05:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2020-06-24T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2020-09-15T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2020-09-29T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to FINANCE referral-committee
• 2020-10-06T04:00:00+00:00 PN 4478 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2020-10-06T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2020-10-19T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2020-10-19T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2020-10-20T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2020-10-20T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2020-10-20T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2020-10-21T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2020-10-21T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2020-10-21T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2020-10-21T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2020-10-22T04:00:00+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/914a19e7-55a9-483f-a36c-5c13d40ddb95. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).