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Bill	An Act providing for the annual designation and holiday observance June 19 as "Juneteenth National Freedom Day" in this Commonwealth.	An Act providing for the annual designation and holiday observance June 19 as "Juneteenth National Freedom Day" in this Commonwealth.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	HB 619	Pennsylvania HB 619 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	Helm	1	20	4	2019-02-28T05:00:00+00:00	2019-06-19T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3a14c32e-d53e-40d4-9ca6-9170b1287d2a	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=619	794f330f12c2fecb0fbf9bba26a96aaa5297422efa30034e43ea589f280721c3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 619 (2019-2020) — An Act providing for the annual designation and holiday observance June 19 as "Juneteenth National Freedom Day" in this Commonwealth.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 0614 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 24–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 191–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (STATE GOVERNMENT): Reported as Committed — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Helm — primary (person)
• Bernstine — cosponsor (person)
• Bizzarro — cosponsor (person)
• Boback — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Burns — cosponsor (person)
• Caltagirone — cosponsor (person)
• Davidson — cosponsor (person)
• Digirolamo — cosponsor (person)
• Freeman — cosponsor (person)
• Gillen — cosponsor (person)
• Hennessey — cosponsor (person)
• Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Kenyatta — cosponsor (person)
• Kinsey — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Kulik — cosponsor (person)
• Longietti — cosponsor (person)
• Mehaffie — cosponsor (person)
• Millard — cosponsor (person)
• Neilson — cosponsor (person)
• Oberlander — cosponsor (person)
• Rabb — cosponsor (person)
• Readshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Rothman — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan — cosponsor (person)
• Sainato — cosponsor (person)
• Saylor — cosponsor (person)
• Schlossberg — cosponsor (person)
• Schweyer — cosponsor (person)
• Sonney — cosponsor (person)
• T. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Webster — cosponsor (person)
• Wheeland — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 PN 0614 Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT referral-committee
• 2019-04-16T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-04-16T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-04-16T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2019-04-30T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2019-05-01T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-05-01T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-05-06T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-05-06T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-05-17T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT referral-committee
• 2019-06-05T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-06-05T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-06-10T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-06-10T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-06-12T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-06-17T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2019-06-17T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2019-06-18T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-06-19T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3a14c32e-d53e-40d4-9ca6-9170b1287d2a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).