republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2019-2020/hb-856.md

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Bill	An act amending Title 67 (Public Welfare) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in medical assistance hearings and appeals, further providing for definitions; in public welfare generally, providing for adoption opportunities and for family finding and kinship care; establishing the Kinship Care Program and the Subsidized Permanent Legal Custodianship Program; making related repeals; and making editorial changes.	An act amending Title 67 (Public Welfare) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in medical assistance hearings and appeals, further providing for definitions; in public welfare generally, providing for adoption opportunities and for family finding and kinship care; establishing the Kinship Care Program and the Subsidized Permanent Legal Custodianship Program; making related repeals; and making editorial changes.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	HB 856	Pennsylvania HB 856 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	Boback	3	20	4	2019-03-18T04:00:00+00:00	2019-06-28T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e5f68e4e-7648-42c4-aea7-f5633b22b94b	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=856	203fe2734ab7d918da00ced538714bd85a3634789fa740792aec667f05ce35b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 856 (2019-2020) — An act amending Title 67 (Public Welfare) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in medical assistance hearings and appeals, further providing for definitions; in public welfare generally, providing for adoption opportunities and for family finding and kinship care; establishing the Kinship Care Program and the Subsidized Permanent Legal Custodianship Program; making related repeals; and making editorial changes.

Version chain

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

1. House Amendment A00689 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 0970 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 1333 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 196–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 24–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES): Reported as Committed — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Boback — primary (person)
• Comitta — cosponsor (person)
• D. Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Deluca — cosponsor (person)
• Gillen — cosponsor (person)
• Helm — cosponsor (person)
• Howard — cosponsor (person)
• Kortz — cosponsor (person)
• Longietti — cosponsor (person)
• Petrarca — cosponsor (person)
• Rader — cosponsor (person)
• Toohil — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-18T04:00:00+00:00 PN 0970 Referred to CHILDREN AND YOUTH referral-committee
• 2019-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1333 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2019-04-16T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2019-04-29T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-04-29T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-04-30T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-04-30T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-05-03T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES referral-committee
• 2019-06-04T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-06-04T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2019-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2019-06-27T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e5f68e4e-7648-42c4-aea7-f5633b22b94b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).