republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2025-2026/hb-261.md

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Bill	An Act amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, in casualty insurance, further providing for conditions subject to which policies are to be issued and for group accident and sickness insurance; and, in community health reinvestment, further providing for definitions.	An Act amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, in casualty insurance, further providing for conditions subject to which policies are to be issued and for group accident and sickness insurance; and, in community health reinvestment, further providing for definitions.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2025-2026	HB 261	Pennsylvania HB 261 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Tina Pickett	1	21	6	2025-01-17T05:00:00+00:00	2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e6c32644-6dfe-44c2-9edc-03a9ef4b7cd6	https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=22&rollcallid=17&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0	0ae4724cbd965e69014b253539b5b6a3551fbfb282e836d6dc82eca10e68f1a4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 261 (2025-2026) — An Act amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, in casualty insurance, further providing for conditions subject to which policies are to be issued and for group accident and sickness insurance; and, in community health reinvestment, further providing for definitions.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. PN0169 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (Insurance): Report Bill As Committed — 26–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — 22–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 202–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Banking & Insurance): Reported as Committed — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — 37–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Tina Pickett — primary (person)
• Arvind Venkat — cosponsor (person)
• Benjamin Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
• Carol Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Christina Sappey — cosponsor (person)
• Danilo Burgos — cosponsor (person)
• Ed Neilson — cosponsor (person)
• Greg Vitali — cosponsor (person)
• Jeremy Shaffer — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Webster — cosponsor (person)
• Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz — cosponsor (person)
• Justin Fleming — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Donahue — cosponsor (person)
• Mary Jo Daley — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Schlossberg — cosponsor (person)
• Pat Gallagher — cosponsor (person)
• Perry Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Steve Samuelson — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Malagari — cosponsor (person)
• Tarik Khan — cosponsor (person)
• Tim Brennan — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-17T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to Insurance referral-committee
• 2025-01-29T05:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-01-29T05:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2025-01-29T05:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2025-02-03T05:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to Banking & Insurance referral-committee
• 2025-06-24T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-06-24T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2025-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2025-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 Act No. 9 of 2025

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e6c32644-6dfe-44c2-9edc-03a9ef4b7cd6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).