republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2019-2020/sb-952.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in veterans' preference, repealing provisions relating to soldier defined, providing for purpose and for definitions, repealing provisions relating to credits in civil service examinations, further providing for additional points in grading civil service examinations, for preference in appointment or promotion, for lack of training, age or physical impairment, for preferential rating provision in public works specifications, for computation of seniority for reduction in force, for preference of spouses and for law exclusive and providing for reporting requirement and for guidelines; and, in voluntary veterans' preference in private employment, further providing for definitions and for eligibility for preference.	An Act amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in veterans' preference, repealing provisions relating to soldier defined, providing for purpose and for definitions, repealing provisions relating to credits in civil service examinations, further providing for additional points in grading civil service examinations, for preference in appointment or promotion, for lack of training, age or physical impairment, for preferential rating provision in public works specifications, for computation of seniority for reduction in force, for preference of spouses and for law exclusive and providing for reporting requirement and for guidelines; and, in voluntary veterans' preference in private employment, further providing for definitions and for eligibility for preference.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2019-2020	SB 952	Pennsylvania SB 952 (2019-2020)	bill		enacted	Regan	7	24	7	2019-11-12T05:00:00+00:00	2020-10-29T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/725660f1-282a-41a0-b59c-c087b81f0c3e	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=S&type=B&BN=952	e209e48a95f3463174e5025c1d5ffbb4d9d7b4a7e6f0ba680117e688c98997bf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania SB 952 (2019-2020) — An Act amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in veterans' preference, repealing provisions relating to soldier defined, providing for purpose and for definitions, repealing provisions relating to credits in civil service examinations, further providing for additional points in grading civil service examinations, for preference in appointment or promotion, for lack of training, age or physical impairment, for preferential rating provision in public works specifications, for computation of seniority for reduction in force, for preference of spouses and for law exclusive and providing for reporting requirement and for guidelines; and, in voluntary veterans' preference in private employment, further providing for definitions and for eligibility for preference.

Version chain

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

1. House Amendment A07110 (committee substitute) — source
2. House Amendment A07413 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 1370 (committee substitute) — source
4. Printer's No. 1757 (committee substitute) — source
5. Printer's No. 1949 (committee substitute) — source
6. Printer's No. 2043 (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Amendment A06047 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 24–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 17–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 952 PN 1949, 2019 A7413, BARRAR — 202–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 202–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS): Reported as Committed — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Regan — primary (person)
• Aument — cosponsor (person)
• Baker — cosponsor (person)
• Brewster — cosponsor (person)
• Browne — cosponsor (person)
• J. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• K. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Mastriano — cosponsor (person)
• Mensch — cosponsor (person)
• Pittman — cosponsor (person)
• Sabatina — cosponsor (person)
• Yudichak — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-11-12T05:00:00+00:00 PN 1370 Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS referral-committee
• 2019-11-20T05:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2019-11-20T05:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2020-01-27T05:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2020-01-27T05:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2020-04-28T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2020-06-08T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1757 Amended on third consideration
• 2020-06-09T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2020-06-15T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS referral-committee
• 2020-09-16T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1949 Reported as amended committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2020-09-16T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2020-09-16T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2020-09-17T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2020-09-30T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2043 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2020-09-30T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2020-10-19T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2020-10-19T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2020-10-20T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS referral-committee
• 2020-10-20T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2020-10-20T04:00:00+00:00 Senate concurred in House amendments
• 2020-10-20T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2020-10-20T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 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/725660f1-282a-41a0-b59c-c087b81f0c3e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).