republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2025-2026/hb-749.md

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Bill	An Act amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public welfare laws of the Commonwealth," in public assistance, further providing for uniformity in administration of assistance and regulations as to assistance and for copayments for subsidized child care, providing for report on transition to chip-enabled access cards, further providing for reports to General Assembly, for persons eligible for medical assistance and for nonemergency medical transportation services and providing for abrogation of regulatory requirements for payment for outpatient behavioral health services within physical confines of behavioral health clinic facilities and for SNAP benefit reporting; and making a repeal.	An Act amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public welfare laws of the Commonwealth," in public assistance, further providing for uniformity in administration of assistance and regulations as to assistance and for copayments for subsidized child care, providing for report on transition to chip-enabled access cards, further providing for reports to General Assembly, for persons eligible for medical assistance and for nonemergency medical transportation services and providing for abrogation of regulatory requirements for payment for outpatient behavioral health services within physical confines of behavioral health clinic facilities and for SNAP benefit reporting; and making a repeal.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2025-2026	HB 749	Pennsylvania HB 749 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Dave Madsen	3	24	10	2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00	2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/84c32901-d582-403a-b6e6-a652c43be19e	https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=56&rollcallid=86&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0	5902a05cba491a2c5b70d873f2ca8604af61d7bb8c93a3c5d548b9b67ef5b430	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania HB 749 (2025-2026) — An Act amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public welfare laws of the Commonwealth," in public assistance, further providing for uniformity in administration of assistance and regulations as to assistance and for copayments for subsidized child care, providing for report on transition to chip-enabled access cards, further providing for reports to General Assembly, for persons eligible for medical assistance and for nonemergency medical transportation services and providing for abrogation of regulatory requirements for payment for outpatient behavioral health services within physical confines of behavioral health clinic facilities and for SNAP benefit reporting; and making a repeal.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. PN0765 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. PN1332 (committee substitute) — source
3. Printer's No. PN2575 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (Health & Human Services): Reported as Committed — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Rules): Re-report Bill As Committed — 33–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Adopt Amendment — 20–1 (pass) · upper
• CONCURRENCE — 199–4 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-Reported as Amended — 20–1 (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE — 203–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Human Services): Report Bill As Committed — 26–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 46–3 (pass) · upper
• A325 — 203–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dave Madsen — primary (person)
• Abigail Salisbury — cosponsor (person)
• Benjamin Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
• Brenda Pugh — cosponsor (person)
• G. Roni Green — cosponsor (person)
• Gina Curry — cosponsor (person)
• Joe Webster — cosponsor (person)
• Jose Giral — cosponsor (person)
• Justin Fleming — cosponsor (person)
• Keith Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Kristine Howard — cosponsor (person)
• La'Tasha Mayes — cosponsor (person)
• Lisa Borowski — cosponsor (person)
• Maureen Madden — cosponsor (person)
• Melissa Cerrato — cosponsor (person)
• Nathan Davidson — cosponsor (person)
• Nikki Rivera — cosponsor (person)
• Tarik Khan — cosponsor (person)
• Tina Davis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-03-17T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-03-17T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2025-03-17T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 Re-committed to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-28T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Health & Human Services 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
• 2025-11-11T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as amended amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00 Re-reported on concurrence, as committed committee-passage
• 2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate amendments
• 2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-11-12T05:00:00+00:00 Act No. 46 of 2025

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/84c32901-d582-403a-b6e6-a652c43be19e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).