republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2019-2020/hb-2561.md

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Bill	An Act amending the act of June 6, 1980 (P.L.197, No.57), known as the Optometric Practice and Licensure Act, further providing for definitions, for approval of drugs, for exemptions and exceptions and for violations and penalties.	An Act amending the act of June 6, 1980 (P.L.197, No.57), known as the Optometric Practice and Licensure Act, further providing for definitions, for approval of drugs, for exemptions and exceptions and for violations and penalties.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	HB 2561	Pennsylvania HB 2561 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	Schlegel Culver	3	20	4	2020-06-08T04:00:00+00:00	2020-10-29T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/2547df3b-ec62-4a30-bece-fedae214d58d	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=2561	0e57e11dd6256b4913fee0b9ee6f9437e71de2171db6f019eecfcace6dfe523c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 2561 (2019-2020) — An Act amending the act of June 6, 1980 (P.L.197, No.57), known as the Optometric Practice and Licensure Act, further providing for definitions, for approval of drugs, for exemptions and exceptions and for violations and penalties.

Version chain

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

1. House Amendment A07134 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 3883 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 4373 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE): Reported as Committed — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 23–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 202–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Schlegel Culver — primary (person)
• Barrar — cosponsor (person)
• Boback — cosponsor (person)
• Deluca — cosponsor (person)
• Fritz — cosponsor (person)
• Hickernell — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• James — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Kulik — cosponsor (person)
• M. K. Keller — cosponsor (person)
• Mizgorski — cosponsor (person)
• Mullery — cosponsor (person)
• Pickett — cosponsor (person)
• Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Schemel — cosponsor (person)
• Schmitt — cosponsor (person)
• Toohil — cosponsor (person)
• Ullman — cosponsor (person)
• Youngblood — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-06-08T04:00:00+00:00 PN 3883 Referred to PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE referral-committee
• 2020-09-15T04:00:00+00:00 PN 4373 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2020-09-15T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2020-09-15T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2020-09-16T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2020-09-17T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2020-09-17T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2020-09-29T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2020-09-29T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2020-10-02T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE referral-committee
• 2020-10-06T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-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 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/2547df3b-ec62-4a30-bece-fedae214d58d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).