republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2025-2026/sb-255.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in sentencing, further providing for sexual offenses and tier system.	An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in sentencing, further providing for sexual offenses and tier system.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2025-2026	SB 255	Pennsylvania SB 255 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Lisa Baker	1	19	5	2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00	2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/bd818da2-4e67-4183-b677-a471ec85da2b	https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=60&rollcallid=787&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0	c5c80c69b4658f9091afb4af98fe81a7f98d7e2c21982e117f0b72852018620a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania SB 255 (2025-2026) — An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in sentencing, further providing for sexual offenses and tier system.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. PN0207 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Lisa Baker — primary (person)
• Camera Bartolotta — cosponsor (person)
• Cris Dush — cosponsor (person)
• Elder Vogel — cosponsor (person)
• Judy Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Kristin Phillips-Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Lynda Schlegel Culver — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Stefano — cosponsor (person)
• Rosemary Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Scott Martin — cosponsor (person)
• Tracy Pennycuick — cosponsor (person)
• Wayne Fontana — cosponsor (person)
• Wayne Langerholc — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 Referred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2025-04-02T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2025-05-05T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-06-17T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-06-17T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2025-06-17T04:00:00+00:00 Laid on the table
• 2025-06-24T04:00:00+00:00 Removed from table
• 2025-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration reading-2
• 2025-06-25T04:00:00+00:00 Re-referred to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Re-reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-26T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in Senate
• 2025-06-30T04:00:00+00:00 Signed in House
• 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. 22 of 2025

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bd818da2-4e67-4183-b677-a471ec85da2b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).