republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2019-2020/hb-256.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in assault, further providing for the offense of assault by prisoner; in sexual offenses, further providing for the offense of institutional sexual assault; and, in registration of sexual offenders, further providing for sexual offenses and tier system.	An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in assault, further providing for the offense of assault by prisoner; in sexual offenses, further providing for the offense of institutional sexual assault; and, in registration of sexual offenders, further providing for sexual offenses and tier system.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	HB 256	Pennsylvania HB 256 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	Metzgar	7	23	6	2019-01-29T05:00:00+00:00	2020-07-23T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/08fe4c4b-7716-417b-a528-ae27ba7801e6	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=256	7c1873462880193753409ab2987cbe0263022c24e072d4150400ed463efecdbd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 256 (2019-2020) — An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in assault, further providing for the offense of assault by prisoner; in sexual offenses, further providing for the offense of institutional sexual assault; and, in registration of sexual offenders, further providing for sexual offenses and tier system.

Version chain

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

1. House Amendment A03155 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 0227 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 2919 (committee substitute) — source
4. Printer's No. 4021 (committee substitute) — source
5. Printer's No. 4054 (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Amendment A06389 (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Amendment A06480 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 256 PN 4054, CONCUR — 173–28 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 22–2 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 146–51 (pass) · lower
• HB 256 PN 4021, A6480, REGAN AMENDMENT NO. A-6480 — 36–14 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Amended — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Metzgar — primary (person)
• Barrar — cosponsor (person)
• Benninghoff — cosponsor (person)
• Deluca — cosponsor (person)
• Gillen — cosponsor (person)
• Goodman — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• James — cosponsor (person)
• Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Masser — cosponsor (person)
• Mcneill — cosponsor (person)
• Oberlander — cosponsor (person)
• Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Reese — cosponsor (person)
• Sankey — cosponsor (person)
• Saylor — cosponsor (person)
• Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• Struzzi — cosponsor (person)
• Topper — cosponsor (person)
• Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-29T05:00:00+00:00 PN 0227 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2019-11-19T05:00:00+00:00 PN 2919 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-11-19T05:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-11-19T05:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2019-11-21T05:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2019-12-17T05:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-12-17T05:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-12-18T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-12-18T05:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-12-26T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2020-06-24T04:00:00+00:00 PN 4021 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2020-06-24T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2020-06-29T04:00:00+00:00 PN 4054 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2020-06-29T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2020-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2020-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2020-07-07T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2020-07-07T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2020-07-07T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2020-07-07T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2020-07-13T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2020-07-13T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-23T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/08fe4c4b-7716-417b-a528-ae27ba7801e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).