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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the act of October 5, 1978 (P.L.1109, No.261), known as the Osteopathic Medical Practice Act, further providing for power to license, for visiting team physician and for licenses, exemptions, nonresident practitioners, graduate students, biennial registration and continuing medical education."
description: "An Act amending the act of October 5, 1978 (P.L.1109, No.261), known as the Osteopathic Medical Practice Act, further providing for power to license, for visiting team physician and for licenses, exemptions, nonresident practitioners, graduate students, biennial registration and continuing medical education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/pa"
legislature: "Pennsylvania General Assembly"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 309"
citation: "Pennsylvania HB 309 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frank Burns"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2025-01-23T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-07-07T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18496993-b01e-4308-a520-7473ee463a06"
source_url: "https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=34&rollcallid=18&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0"
source_hash: "433ae94711f3332860d11001a75c554aa4e14559ae9f8b5dedc00582001f0115"
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 309 (2025-2026) — An Act amending the act of October 5, 1978 (P.L.1109, No.261), known as the Osteopathic Medical Practice Act, further providing for power to license, for visiting team physician and for licenses, exemptions, nonresident practitioners, graduate students, biennial registration and continuing medical education.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Printer's No. PN0262** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0309/PN0262)
2. **Printer's No. PN0373** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0309/PN0373)
3. **Printer's No. PN1686** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0309/PN1686)
4. **Printer's No. PN2013** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0309/PN2013)
## Votes
- CONCURRENCE — **203–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure): Reported as Amended — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE — **202–1** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure): Adopt Amendment — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- A140 — **203–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Rules): Re-report Bill As Committed — **33–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — **37–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Professional Licensure): Report Bill As Amended — **26–0** (pass) · lower
- Committee vote (Professional Licensure): Adopt Amendment — **26–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — **22–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Frank Burns — primary (person)
- Arvind Venkat — cosponsor (person)
- Benjamin Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Carol Hill-Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Chad Reichard — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Neilson — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob Banta — cosponsor (person)
- Jim Haddock — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Ciresi — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Emrick — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Webster — cosponsor (person)
- Jose Giral — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Donahue — cosponsor (person)
- Malcolm Kenyatta — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Schlossberg — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lee James — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Freeman — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Merski — cosponsor (person)
- Tina Davis — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-23T05:00:00+00:00** Referred to Professional Licensure `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29T05:00:00+00:00** Reported as amended `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-01-29T05:00:00+00:00** First consideration `reading-1`
- **2025-01-29T05:00:00+00:00** Laid on the table
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Removed from table
- **2025-05-12T04:00:00+00:00** Second consideration, with amendments `reading-2`
- **2025-05-12T04:00:00+00:00** Re-committed to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-13T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported as committed `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-13T04:00:00+00:00** Third consideration and final passage `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-22T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-24T04:00:00+00:00** Reported as amended `amendment-passage, 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** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Re-reported on concurrence, as committed `committee-passage`
- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** House concurred in Senate amendments
- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in House
- **2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00** Signed in Senate
- **2025-07-01T04:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-07T04:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-07T04:00:00+00:00** Act No. 29 of 2025
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/18496993-b01e-4308-a520-7473ee463a06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).