republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2019-2020/hb-1984.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for petition for involuntary termination and providing for special provisions when child conceived as a result of rape or incest.	An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for petition for involuntary termination and providing for special provisions when child conceived as a result of rape or incest.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	HB 1984	Pennsylvania HB 1984 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	Benninghoff	1	20	4	2019-10-25T04:00:00+00:00	2020-10-29T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/07ed46d9-5e3d-41df-b0ce-83b04f5f6c02	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1984	e4d71795a9cdaa96092f73e5945d58ff561d36864b263ab42c8caaf6e2a8e698	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 1984 (2019-2020) — An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in proceedings prior to petition to adopt, further providing for petition for involuntary termination and providing for special provisions when child conceived as a result of rape or incest.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 2789 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 24–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 202–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Committed — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Benninghoff — primary (person)
• Bernstine — cosponsor (person)
• Bizzarro — cosponsor (person)
• Boback — cosponsor (person)
• Briggs — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Cox — cosponsor (person)
• Delozier — cosponsor (person)
• Deluca — cosponsor (person)
• Diamond — cosponsor (person)
• Dush — cosponsor (person)
• Ecker — cosponsor (person)
• Everett — cosponsor (person)
• Fritz — cosponsor (person)
• Gabler — cosponsor (person)
• Gillen — cosponsor (person)
• Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
• Gleim — cosponsor (person)
• Hershey — cosponsor (person)
• Jozwiak — cosponsor (person)
• Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
• Keefer — cosponsor (person)
• Kinsey — cosponsor (person)
• Knowles — cosponsor (person)
• Lawrence — cosponsor (person)
• Markosek — cosponsor (person)
• Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• Mcneill — cosponsor (person)
• Mihalek — cosponsor (person)
• Millard — cosponsor (person)
• Moul — cosponsor (person)
• Pickett — cosponsor (person)
• Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Rothman — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan — cosponsor (person)
• Schlegel Culver — cosponsor (person)
• Schlossberg — cosponsor (person)
• Schweyer — cosponsor (person)
• Staats — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Toepel — cosponsor (person)
• Toohil — cosponsor (person)
• Youngblood — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-10-25T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2789 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2020-01-21T05:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2020-01-21T05:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2020-01-21T05:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2020-02-03T05:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2020-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2020-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2020-04-07T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2020-04-20T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2020-05-07T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2020-06-24T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2020-06-24T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2020-07-13T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2020-07-13T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2020-09-08T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2020-10-05T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2020-10-19T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2020-10-19T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2020-10-20T04:00:00+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/07ed46d9-5e3d-41df-b0ce-83b04f5f6c02. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).