republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2023-2024/hb-1278.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in wiretapping and electronic surveillance, further providing for definitions and for exceptions to prohibition of interception and disclosure of communications, providing for public access and for Department of Corrections retention policy and further providing for expiration of chapter.	An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in wiretapping and electronic surveillance, further providing for definitions and for exceptions to prohibition of interception and disclosure of communications, providing for public access and for Department of Corrections retention policy and further providing for expiration of chapter.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2023-2024	HB 1278	Pennsylvania HB 1278 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Chris Pielli	7	26	12	2023-05-30T04:00:00+00:00	2023-12-14T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/964e0b9e-a7c0-49f2-a316-1bf894e45ece	https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=60&rollcallid=656&sessYr=2023&sessInd=0	4b1fada7ebdfdd722bf39160ceebdf2c15590b6b69a4fa0346449dba5658718e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 1278 (2023-2024) — An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in wiretapping and electronic surveillance, further providing for definitions and for exceptions to prohibition of interception and disclosure of communications, providing for public access and for Department of Corrections retention policy and further providing for expiration of chapter.

Version chain

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

1. House Amendment A01835 (committee substitute) — source
2. House Amendment A02085 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. PN1382 (committee substitute) — source
4. Printer's No. PN1764 (committee substitute) — source
5. Printer's No. PN2037 (committee substitute) — source
6. Printer's No. PN2303 (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Amendment A02671 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (Judiciary): Report Bill As Amended — 12–9 (pass) · lower
• CONCURRENCE — 181–22 (pass) · lower
• A1835 — 201–1 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Judiciary): Adopt Amendment — 12–9 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 110–93 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 40–8 (pass) · upper
• A2085 — 102–100 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Rules): Re-report Bill As Committed — 18–15 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Judiciary): Reported as Amended — 9–5 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — 20–4 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Judiciary): Adopt Amendment — 9–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris Pielli — primary (person)
• Benjamin Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
• David Delloso — cosponsor (person)
• G. Roni Green — cosponsor (person)
• Greg Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Maureen Madden — cosponsor (person)
• Tim Briggs — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-30T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2023-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as amended amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2023-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to Rules referral-committee
• 2023-09-22T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2023-09-22T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2023-09-22T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2023-09-26T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2023-09-26T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-09-27T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2023-10-16T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2023-10-19T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2023-11-14T05:00:00+00:00 Reported as amended amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-11-14T05:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2023-11-15T05:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2023-11-15T05:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-12-11T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2023-12-11T05:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2023-12-12T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2023-12-12T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2023-12-12T05:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2023-12-12T05:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2023-12-13T05:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2023-12-14T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-12-14T05:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature
• 2023-12-14T05:00:00+00:00 Act No. 53 of 2023

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/964e0b9e-a7c0-49f2-a316-1bf894e45ece. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).