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type: "Bill"
title: "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."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 115"
citation: "Pennsylvania HB 115 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joe Ciresi"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-07-17T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4032015-359a-4325-ae06-e40e763fba1a"
source_url: "https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=60&rollcallid=26&sessYr=2023&sessInd=0"
source_hash: "6169ef89d3ae562822a3c16ad4667e6c186e82893dbf58c00a339be3faef4531"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/HB0115/PN0098)
2. **Printer's No. PN0958** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2023/0/HB0115/PN0958)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4032015-359a-4325-ae06-e40e763fba1a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).