republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2023-2024/hb-115.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in dispositions independent of letters, family exemption, probate of wills and grant of letters, further providing for payments to family and funeral directors.	An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in dispositions independent of letters, family exemption, probate of wills and grant of letters, further providing for payments to family and funeral directors.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2023-2024	HB 115	Pennsylvania HB 115 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Joe Ciresi	2	21	7	2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00	2024-07-17T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c4032015-359a-4325-ae06-e40e763fba1a	https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=60&rollcallid=26&sessYr=2023&sessInd=0	6169ef89d3ae562822a3c16ad4667e6c186e82893dbf58c00a339be3faef4531	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 115 (2023-2024) — An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in dispositions independent of letters, family exemption, probate of wills and grant of letters, further providing for payments to family and funeral directors.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. PN0098 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. PN0958 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Judiciary): Report Bill As Amended — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 201–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Judiciary): Reported as Committed — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — 23–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Judiciary): Adopt Amendment — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Joe Ciresi — primary (person)
• Benjamin Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
• Carol Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Dan Williams — cosponsor (person)
• David Delloso — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Kinkead — cosponsor (person)
• Jeanne Mcneill — cosponsor (person)
• John Galloway — cosponsor (person)
• Marylouise Isaacson — cosponsor (person)
• Maureen Madden — cosponsor (person)
• Melissa Cerrato — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Schlossberg — cosponsor (person)
• Nancy Guenst — cosponsor (person)
• Napoleon J. Nelson — cosponsor (person)
• Nick Pisciottano — cosponsor (person)
• Perry Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Malagari — cosponsor (person)
• Tarik Khan — cosponsor (person)
• Tim Briggs — cosponsor (person)
• Tina Davis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2023-04-21T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as amended amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-04-21T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2023-04-21T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2023-04-25T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2023-04-26T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2023-04-26T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-05-01T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2023-05-01T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-07-01T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2024-07-01T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2024-07-02T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2024-07-02T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-07-11T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2024-07-11T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2024-07-11T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2024-07-11T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2024-07-12T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-07-17T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-07-17T04:00:00+00:00 Act No. 65 of 2024

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c4032015-359a-4325-ae06-e40e763fba1a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).