republic-os/legislation/us/states/pa/2025-2026/sb-649.md

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Bill	An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in forgery and fraudulent practices, providing for the offense of digital forgery.	An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in forgery and fraudulent practices, providing for the offense of digital forgery.	us/states/pa	Pennsylvania General Assembly	2025-2026	SB 649	Pennsylvania SB 649 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Tracy Pennycuick	2	19	6	2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00	2025-07-07T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c3c1fff0-ca3f-4775-9565-64ed98d2fadf	https://www.palegis.us/house/committees/roll-call-votes/vote-list/vote-summary?committeecode=60&rollcallid=821&sessYr=2025&sessInd=0	42cb690f8d9822520b0794a775f0afcff5d062884693ecd29f4782e5f1abf0f9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-pa

Pennsylvania SB 649 (2025-2026) — An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in forgery and fraudulent practices, providing for the offense of digital forgery.

Version chain

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

1. Printer's No. PN0705 (committee substitute) — source
2. Printer's No. PN0920 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Committee vote (Judiciary): Report Bill As Committed — 25–1 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 199–3 (pass) · lower
• Committee vote (Appropriations): Re-report Bill As Committed — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• PENNYCUICK AMENDMENT NO. A-0963 — 47–3 (pass) · upper
• Committee vote (Judiciary): Reported as Committed — 13–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Tracy Pennycuick — primary (person)
• Christine Tartaglione — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel Laughlin — cosponsor (person)
• Devlin Robinson — cosponsor (person)
• Elder Vogel — cosponsor (person)
• John Kane — cosponsor (person)
• Judy Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Nick Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Nick Pisciottano — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick Stefano — cosponsor (person)
• Rosemary Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Wayne Fontana — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-06-03T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-06-03T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2025-06-09T04:00:00+00:00 Second consideration, with amendments reading-2
• 2025-06-10T04:00:00+00:00 Third consideration and final passage passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-11T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-06-23T04:00:00+00:00 Reported as committed committee-passage
• 2025-06-23T04:00:00+00:00 First consideration reading-1
• 2025-06-23T04:00:00+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
• 2025-07-07T04:00:00+00:00 Approved by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-07-07T04:00:00+00:00 Act No. 35 of 2025

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c3c1fff0-ca3f-4775-9565-64ed98d2fadf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Pennsylvania legislature records).