republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2021-2022/hb-843.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in child custody, further providing for consideration of criminal conviction.	An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in child custody, further providing for consideration of criminal conviction.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2021-2022	HB 843	Pennsylvania HB 843 (2021-2022)	bill		enacted	Rowe	1	19	3	2021-03-09T05:00:00+00:00	2021-06-30T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e6c075ad-e68b-4b86-9bcc-6484a75a2c7a	http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2021&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=843	cdefdf3a31c1b31708f90ecc0fbe909626571b1298ded0a23d166718bbb5c489	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 843 (2021-2022) — An Act amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in child custody, further providing for consideration of criminal conviction.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. 0827 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (JUDICIARY): Reported as Committed — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 843 PN 827, Final Passage — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 201–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rowe — primary (person)
• B. Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Burgos — cosponsor (person)
• C. Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Ciresi — cosponsor (person)
• Dowling — cosponsor (person)
• Ecker — cosponsor (person)
• Gillen — cosponsor (person)
• Hamm — cosponsor (person)
• Hershey — cosponsor (person)
• Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Hohenstein — cosponsor (person)
• James — cosponsor (person)
• Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
• Keefer — cosponsor (person)
• Lewis Delrosso — cosponsor (person)
• M. Mackenzie — cosponsor (person)
• Moul — cosponsor (person)
• Pickett — cosponsor (person)
• R. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan — cosponsor (person)
• Saylor — cosponsor (person)
• Schlegel Culver — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Staats — cosponsor (person)
• Stephens — cosponsor (person)
• Struzzi — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas — cosponsor (person)
• Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-09T05:00:00+00:00 PN 0827 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2021-05-05T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2021-05-24T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2021-05-24T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS referral-committee
• 2021-05-25T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2021-05-25T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2021-05-28T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to JUDICIARY referral-committee
• 2021-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2021-06-22T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2021-06-23T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2021-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2021-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2021-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature
• 2021-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 Act No. 38 of 2021

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e6c075ad-e68b-4b86-9bcc-6484a75a2c7a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).