republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2019-2020/hb-279.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in particular rights and immunities, further providing for rescue from motor vehicle.	An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in particular rights and immunities, further providing for rescue from motor vehicle.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	HB 279	Pennsylvania HB 279 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	Boback	3	18	4	2019-01-29T05:00:00+00:00	2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c439fce6-b26c-4acc-b822-cefcaa45deed	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=279	0192aef3f5024cf9d60946ab70d37ad174f04f57f0d597cae546baa1c7306287	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 279 (2019-2020) — An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in particular rights and immunities, further providing for rescue from motor vehicle.

Version chain

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

1. House Amendment A00274 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 0247 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 1330 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Committed — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 279 PN 247, 2019 A274, BOBACK — 198–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 197–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Boback — primary (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Ciresi — cosponsor (person)
• Diamond — cosponsor (person)
• Dowling — cosponsor (person)
• Farry — cosponsor (person)
• Gillen — cosponsor (person)
• Greiner — cosponsor (person)
• Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• Isaacson — cosponsor (person)
• Jozwiak — cosponsor (person)
• Kaufer — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Mcneill — cosponsor (person)
• Millard — cosponsor (person)
• Murt — cosponsor (person)
• Neilson — cosponsor (person)
• Otten — cosponsor (person)
• Owlett — cosponsor (person)
• Pickett — cosponsor (person)
• Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan — cosponsor (person)
• Struzzi — cosponsor (person)
• Toohil — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-29T05:00:00+00:00 PN 0247 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2019-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2019-04-08T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1330 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2019-04-08T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-22T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2019-05-01T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-05-01T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-05-06T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-05-08T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-05-08T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2019-05-08T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2019-05-08T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c439fce6-b26c-4acc-b822-cefcaa45deed. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).