republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2021-2022/hb-184.md

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Bill	An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in criminal homicide, further providing for the offense of causing or aiding suicide; and, in depositions and witnesses, further providing for definitions.	An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in criminal homicide, further providing for the offense of causing or aiding suicide; and, in depositions and witnesses, further providing for definitions.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2021-2022	HB 184	Pennsylvania HB 184 (2021-2022)	bill		enacted	Keefer	3	24	7	2021-01-21T05:00:00+00:00	2021-09-30T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6f92768e-3d3f-49ee-a83d-74ffe6e802cb	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2021&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=184	f53fcb4d95ceebe63c8298ceba4ba85af9b1f094569d949d2ad6c944aff2cf8f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 184 (2021-2022) — An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in criminal homicide, further providing for the offense of causing or aiding suicide; and, in depositions and witnesses, further providing for definitions.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 0152 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 0964 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 1884 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 184 PN 1884, Final Passage — 34–16 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Amended — 16–8 (pass) · upper
• HB 184 PN 152, 2021 A372, KEEFER — 201–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 162–39 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Committed — 13–1 (pass) · upper
• HB 184 PN 152, 2021 A356, HOHENSTEIN — 90–111 (fail) · lower
• HB 184 PN 1884, CONCUR — 152–49 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Keefer — primary (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Davanzo — cosponsor (person)
• E. Nelson — cosponsor (person)
• Ecker — cosponsor (person)
• Gillen — cosponsor (person)
• Gleim — cosponsor (person)
• Hershey — cosponsor (person)
• Metcalfe — cosponsor (person)
• Moul — cosponsor (person)
• Rapp — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan — cosponsor (person)
• Schlegel Culver — cosponsor (person)
• Schlossberg — cosponsor (person)
• Toohil — cosponsor (person)
• Topper — cosponsor (person)
• Warner — cosponsor (person)
• Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-21T05:00:00+00:00 PN 0152 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2021-01-27T05:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2021-01-27T05:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2021-01-27T05:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2021-02-05T05:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2021-03-17T04:00:00+00:00 PN 0964 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2021-03-17T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2021-04-06T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2021-04-07T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2021-04-21T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2021-04-21T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2021-04-28T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2021-04-28T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2021-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 PN 1884 Re-reported as amended amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2021-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2021-09-21T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2021-09-21T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2021-09-21T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2021-09-22T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-09-30T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature
• 2021-09-30T04:00:00+00:00 Act No. 71 of 2021

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f92768e-3d3f-49ee-a83d-74ffe6e802cb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).