republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2021-2022/hb-1988.md

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Bill	An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in recordings by law enforcement officers, further providing for definitions; in employees, further providing for definitions; and providing for automatic certification by the Municipal Police Officers' Education and Training Commission.	An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in recordings by law enforcement officers, further providing for definitions; in employees, further providing for definitions; and providing for automatic certification by the Municipal Police Officers' Education and Training Commission.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2021-2022	HB 1988	Pennsylvania HB 1988 (2021-2022)	bill		enacted	Owlett	4	24	6	2021-10-22T04:00:00+00:00	2022-11-03T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c573fe04-361b-445a-9920-1017f3c5e8b6	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2021&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=1988	a431380698d9e6ba94eb71fc619c271efa82cef36e58751bd1d7fb95198fafaf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 1988 (2021-2022) — An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in recordings by law enforcement officers, further providing for definitions; in employees, further providing for definitions; and providing for automatic certification by the Municipal Police Officers' Education and Training Commission.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 2293 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. 3147 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. 3570 (committee substitute) — source
4. Printer's No. 3592 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 200–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (APPROPRIATIONS): Re-Reported as Committed — 24–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1988 PN 3592, CONCURRENCE — 199–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (LAW AND JUSTICE): Reported as Amended A05748 — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1988 PN 3592, Final Passage — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (LAW AND JUSTICE): Adopt Amendment A05748 — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Owlett — primary (person)
• Bernstine — cosponsor (person)
• Causer — cosponsor (person)
• Ciresi — cosponsor (person)
• Cook — cosponsor (person)
• D. Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Herrin — cosponsor (person)
• James — cosponsor (person)
• Lawrence — cosponsor (person)
• Mizgorski — cosponsor (person)
• Moul — cosponsor (person)
• Oberlander — cosponsor (person)
• Otten — cosponsor (person)
• R. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Rader — cosponsor (person)
• Sappey — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Snyder — cosponsor (person)
• Struzzi — cosponsor (person)
• Wheeland — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-10-22T04:00:00+00:00 PN 2293 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2022-05-24T04:00:00+00:00 PN 3147 Reported as amended amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-05-24T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2022-05-24T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2022-06-21T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2022-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2022-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2022-06-27T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2022-06-27T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2022-06-29T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to LAW AND JUSTICE referral-committee
• 2022-10-19T04:00:00+00:00 PN 3570 Reported as amended amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-10-19T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2022-10-24T04:00:00+00:00 PN 3592 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2022-10-24T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2022-10-25T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2022-10-25T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2022-10-26T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to RULES referral-committee
• 2022-10-26T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2022-10-26T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2022-10-26T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2022-10-26T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2022-10-27T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-11-03T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature
• 2022-11-03T04:00:00+00:00 Act No. 121 of 2022

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c573fe04-361b-445a-9920-1017f3c5e8b6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).