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Bill	An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in judicial boards and commissions, providing for commission, for composition of commission and for powers and duties of commission, for adoption of guidelines for sentencing, for adoption of guidelines for county intermediate punishment, for adoption of guidelines for State intermediate punishment and for adoption of risk assessment instrument; in judgments and other liens, further providing for personal earnings exempt from process; in sentencing, further providing for sentences for offenses against infant persons, for sentencing generally, for collection of restitution, reparation, fees, costs, fines and penalties, for payments of court costs, restitution and fines, for order of probation, for sentence of partial confinement, for sentence of total confinement, for sentence of county intermediate punishment, for information required upon commitment and subsequent disposition, for modification or revocation of order of probation, for court-imposed sanctions for offenders violating probation, for modification or revocation of county intermediate punishment sentence and for revocation of State intermediate punishment sentence; in county intermediate punishment, further providing for county intermediate punishment programs and for continued eligibility; in motivational boot camp, further providing for definitions, for selection of inmate participants and for motivational boot camp program; in State intermediate punishment, further providing for scope of chapter, for definitions, for referral to State intermediate punishment program, for drug offender treatment program and for reports; in recidivism risk reduction incentive, further providing for definitions, for sentencing, for evaluation and for reports; in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for confidentially of victim information; in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for definitions, for general powers of board, for probation services, for parole power, providing for short sentence parole and for reentry supervision, further providing for violation of terms of parole, for parole procedure and for victim statements, testimony and participation in hearing and providing for parolee homicide review; in county probation officers' firearm education and training, further providing for County Probation Officers' Firearm Education and Training Commission and for commission membership; making conforming amendments; and making a related repeal.	An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in judicial boards and commissions, providing for commission, for composition of commission and for powers and duties of commission, for adoption of guidelines for sentencing, for adoption of guidelines for county intermediate punishment, for adoption of guidelines for State intermediate punishment and for adoption of risk assessment instrument; in judgments and other liens, further providing for personal earnings exempt from process; in sentencing, further providing for sentences for offenses against infant persons, for sentencing generally, for collection of restitution, reparation, fees, costs, fines and penalties, for payments of court costs, restitution and fines, for order of probation, for sentence of partial confinement, for sentence of total confinement, for sentence of county intermediate punishment, for information required upon commitment and subsequent disposition, for modification or revocation of order of probation, for court-imposed sanctions for offenders violating probation, for modification or revocation of county intermediate punishment sentence and for revocation of State intermediate punishment sentence; in county intermediate punishment, further providing for county intermediate punishment programs and for continued eligibility; in motivational boot camp, further providing for definitions, for selection of inmate participants and for motivational boot camp program; in State intermediate punishment, further providing for scope of chapter, for definitions, for referral to State intermediate punishment program, for drug offender treatment program and for reports; in recidivism risk reduction incentive, further providing for definitions, for sentencing, for evaluation and for reports; in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for confidentially of victim information; in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for definitions, for general powers of board, for probation services, for parole power, providing for short sentence parole and for reentry supervision, further providing for violation of terms of parole, for parole procedure and for victim statements, testimony and participation in hearing and providing for parolee homicide review; in county probation officers' firearm education and training, further providing for County Probation Officers' Firearm Education and Training Commission and for commission membership; making conforming amendments; and making a related repeal.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	SB 501	Pennsylvania SB 501 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	Killion	9	24	10	2019-03-25T04:00:00+00:00	2019-12-18T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/44775475-76c4-4ae8-9226-c46acf88ca28	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=S&type=B&BN=501	7b5b7d908b52eb8571a6ec3c0f7cb02ba70d3cfed9d67499a3f517577f5e49ca	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania SB 501 (2019-2020) — An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in judicial boards and commissions, providing for commission, for composition of commission and for powers and duties of commission, for adoption of guidelines for sentencing, for adoption of guidelines for county intermediate punishment, for adoption of guidelines for State intermediate punishment and for adoption of risk assessment instrument; in judgments and other liens, further providing for personal earnings exempt from process; in sentencing, further providing for sentences for offenses against infant persons, for sentencing generally, for collection of restitution, reparation, fees, costs, fines and penalties, for payments of court costs, restitution and fines, for order of probation, for sentence of partial confinement, for sentence of total confinement, for sentence of county intermediate punishment, for information required upon commitment and subsequent disposition, for modification or revocation of order of probation, for court-imposed sanctions for offenders violating probation, for modification or revocation of county intermediate punishment sentence and for revocation of State intermediate punishment sentence; in county intermediate punishment, further providing for county intermediate punishment programs and for continued eligibility; in motivational boot camp, further providing for definitions, for selection of inmate participants and for motivational boot camp program; in State intermediate punishment, further providing for scope of chapter, for definitions, for referral to State intermediate punishment program, for drug offender treatment program and for reports; in recidivism risk reduction incentive, further providing for definitions, for sentencing, for evaluation and for reports; in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for confidentially of victim information; in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for definitions, for general powers of board, for probation services, for parole power, providing for short sentence parole and for reentry supervision, further providing for violation of terms of parole, for parole procedure and for victim statements, testimony and participation in hearing and providing for parolee homicide review; in county probation officers' firearm education and training, further providing for County Probation Officers' Firearm Education and Training Commission and for commission membership; making conforming amendments; and making a related repeal.

Version chain

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

1. House Amendment A04173 (committee substitute) — source
2. House Amendment A04206 (committee substitute) — source
3. House Amendment A04221 (committee substitute) — source
4. House Amendment A04224 (committee substitute) — source
5. Printer's No. 0483 (committee substitute) — source
6. Printer's No. 0692 (committee substitute) — source
7. Printer's No. 1423 (committee substitute) — source
8. Printer's No. 1434 (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Amendment A00973 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 24–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 501 PN 1423, 2019 A4221, BRIGGS — 194–1 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 13–4 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 501 PN 1434, COSTA MOTION TO TABLE — 21–28 (fail) · upper
• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Amended — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 501 PN 1423, 2019 A4224, BRIGGS — 194–1 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS — 38–11 (pass) · upper
• SB 501 PN 1423, 2019 A4206, KAUFFMAN — 181–14 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 167–29 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Killion — primary (person)
• A. Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Baker — cosponsor (person)
• Bartolotta — cosponsor (person)
• Browne — cosponsor (person)
• Collett — cosponsor (person)
• Costa — cosponsor (person)
• Haywood — cosponsor (person)
• J. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Leach — cosponsor (person)
• Muth — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips-Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Schwank — cosponsor (person)
• Stefano — cosponsor (person)
• Street — cosponsor (person)
• Tartaglione — cosponsor (person)
• Yudichak — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 PN 0483 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2019-05-01T04:00:00+00:00 PN 0692 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-05-01T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-05-08T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2019-05-08T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-06-03T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-06-05T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-06-06T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2019-12-09T05:00:00+00:00 PN 1423 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-12-09T05:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2019-12-09T05:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2019-12-10T05:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2019-12-16T05:00:00+00:00 PN 1434 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2019-12-16T05:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-12-17T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-12-17T05:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2019-12-18T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS referral-committee
• 2019-12-18T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2019-12-18T05:00:00+00:00 Motion to table bill
• 2019-12-18T05:00:00+00:00 Senate concurred in House amendments
• 2019-12-18T05:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2019-12-18T05:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2019-12-18T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-12-18T05:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44775475-76c4-4ae8-9226-c46acf88ca28. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).