republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2023-2024/sb-447.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Department of Military Affairs, establishing the PA VETConnect Program.	An Act amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Department of Military Affairs, establishing the PA VETConnect Program.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2023-2024	SB 447	Pennsylvania SB 447 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Doug Mastriano	3	24	9	2023-02-24T05:00:00+00:00	2024-07-17T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/61c6f9a3-21c6-4a5a-bd17-d747f5dd0f9b	https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=42&rollcallid=1053&sessYr=2023&sessInd=0	25dc18d1bc51e5d8f964c0e34ba19118303ef58127c45a222524b903d0643bb6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania SB 447 (2023-2024) — An Act amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Department of Military Affairs, establishing the PA VETConnect Program.

Version chain

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

1. House Amendment A02823 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. PN0370 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. PN1799 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 201–1 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness): Report Bill As Committed — 25–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Rules & Executive Nominations): Re-Reported as Committed — 17–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — 24–0 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• A2823 — 202–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness): Reported as Committed — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Doug Mastriano — primary (person)
• Camera Bartolotta — cosponsor (person)
• Cris Dush — cosponsor (person)
• Judith Schwank — cosponsor (person)
• Judy Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Katie Muth — cosponsor (person)
• Lisa Baker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-24T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness referral-committee
• 2023-03-01T05:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2023-03-01T05:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2023-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2023-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2023-04-24T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2023-05-08T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-10T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness referral-committee
• 2023-10-31T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2023-10-31T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2023-10-31T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2024-06-28T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2024-07-01T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2024-07-01T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-07-02T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2024-07-09T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2024-07-09T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Rules & Executive Nominations referral-committee
• 2024-07-10T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2024-07-10T04:00:00+00:00 Senate concurred in House amendments
• 2024-07-10T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2024-07-10T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2024-07-10T04:00:00+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. 70 of 2024

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/61c6f9a3-21c6-4a5a-bd17-d747f5dd0f9b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).