republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2025-2026/hb-646.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in rules of the road in general, further providing for prohibiting use of hearing impairment devices.	An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in rules of the road in general, further providing for prohibiting use of hearing impairment devices.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2025-2026	HB 646	Pennsylvania HB 646 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Zachary Mako	1	21	6	2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00	2025-11-06T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/598589df-55ae-44e7-8cab-acde8867b997	https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=38&rollcallid=346&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0	743fb9d4770ca5202d3d5fb37be073875440636f2b57e1bc9436fb1c1e76f04a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 646 (2025-2026) — An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in rules of the road in general, further providing for prohibiting use of hearing impairment devices.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. PN0655 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE — 47–3 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Transportation): Reported as Committed — 13–1 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Transportation): Report Bill As Committed — 25–1 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 193–10 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Committed — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Zachary Mako — primary (person)
• Barbara Gleim — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Chad Reichard — cosponsor (person)
• G. Roni Green — cosponsor (person)
• Rob Kauffman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to Transportation referral-committee
• 2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2025-05-12T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2025-05-13T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2025-05-13T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-22T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Transportation referral-committee
• 2025-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-10-06T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-10-28T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2025-10-29T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2025-10-29T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2025-10-29T04:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-11-06T05:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-11-06T05:00:00+00:00 Act No. 43 of 2025

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/598589df-55ae-44e7-8cab-acde8867b997. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).