republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2025-2026/hb-17.md

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Bill	An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in terms and courses of study, further providing for subjects of instruction and flag code.	An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in terms and courses of study, further providing for subjects of instruction and flag code.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2025-2026	HB 17	Pennsylvania HB 17 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Dane Watro	1	21	6	2025-01-08T05:00:00+00:00	2026-02-11T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/16c5ae69-fefe-4e4a-bd51-8a2c33a9fe74	https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=12&rollcallid=469&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0	f732cf8ee943b5d489c838e2f621191ea4a0f21f3bea762ba9a110ec64e97073	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 17 (2025-2026) — An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in terms and courses of study, further providing for subjects of instruction and flag code.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. PN0002 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 195–8 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Education): Report Bill As Committed — 26–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Education): Reported as Committed — 9–2 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — 20–1 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 42–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dane Watro — primary (person)
• Abigail Salisbury — cosponsor (person)
• Bryan Cutler — cosponsor (person)
• Craig Staats — cosponsor (person)
• David Rowe — cosponsor (person)
• David Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)
• Donna Scheuren — cosponsor (person)
• Doyle Heffley — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Neilson — cosponsor (person)
• Jill Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Emrick — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Hamm — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy Rapp — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Gillen — cosponsor (person)
• Milou Mackenzie — cosponsor (person)
• R. Lee James — cosponsor (person)
• Rob Kauffman — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Freeman — cosponsor (person)
• Tim Twardzik — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to Education referral-committee
• 2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2025-06-18T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2025-06-23T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2025-06-23T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-06-24T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-06-24T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Education referral-committee
• 2025-07-16T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-07-16T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2025-07-17T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2025-07-17T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-11-18T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2026-02-03T05:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-02-11T05:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature
• 2026-02-11T05:00:00+00:00 Act No. 2 of 2026

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16c5ae69-fefe-4e4a-bd51-8a2c33a9fe74. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).