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2017–2018 Regular Session

Senate Bill 623

An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in general provisions relating to health care, further providing for applicability, for definitions and for criminal penalties; in living wills, further providing for emergency medical services; in out-of-hospital nonresuscitation, further providing for definitions, for orders, bracelets and necklaces, for revocation, for absence of order, bracelet or necklace and for emergency medical services, repealing provisions relating to advisory committee and providing for discontinuance; providing for Pennsylvania orders for life-sustaining treatment; and making editorial changes.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Health Committee on October 3, 2018. The 2017–2018 session has ended.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

9 co-sponsors

John C. Rafferty Jr., Daylin Leach, Wayne D. Fontana, Judith L. Schwank, Thomas J. McGarrigle, Lisa Baker, Patrick M. Browne, Ryan P. Aument, John P. Blake

Its course

October 5, 2017 to October 3, 2018, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action11 actions on 7 days

In the SenateOct 5 to Oct 1361 days

Health & Human ServicesOct 5 to Dec 1268 days

AppropriationsJan 29 to Sep 24238 days

In the House of RepresentativesOct 1 to Oct 3 · stopped2 days

HealthOct 3 to Oct 3 · stopped0 days

Votes

Yeas to nays, as the General Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.

  • Senate, third reading47–1

    Passed · Oct 1, 2018

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • Senate floor amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Sep 25, 2018

Text

Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

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What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

In the Senate Oct 5 – Oct 1, 2018

  1. Oct 5Sent to HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
  2. Dec 12HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES recommended it
  3. Jan 29, 2018Read a second time
  4. Sent to APPROPRIATIONS
  5. Sep 24, 2018APPROPRIATIONS recommended it
  6. Sep 25, 2018Amended on the floor
  7. Oct 1, 2018Passed the Senate, 47 to 1

In the House of Representatives Oct 3, 2018

  1. Oct 3, 2018Arrived in the House of Representatives
  2. Sent to HEALTH
All 11 actions, as published
  1. Oct 5Referred to HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Oct. 5, 2017 [Senate]Senate
  2. Dec 12Reported as committed, Dec. 12, 2017 [Senate]Senate
  3. Dec 12First consideration, Dec. 12, 2017 [Senate]Senate
  4. Jan 29, 2018Second consideration, Jan. 29, 2018 [Senate]Senate
  5. Jan 29, 2018Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS, Jan. 29, 2018 [Senate]Senate
  6. Sep 24, 2018Re-reported as committed, Sept. 24, 2018 [Senate]Senate
  7. Sep 25, 2018Amended on third consideration, Sept. 25, 2018 [Senate]Senate
  8. Oct 1, 2018Third consideration and final passage, Oct. 1, 2018 (47-1) [Senate]Senate
  9. Oct 1, 2018(Remarks see Senate Journal Page 877), Oct. 1, 2018 [Senate]Senate
  10. Oct 3, 2018In the House [House]House of Representatives
  11. Oct 3, 2018Referred to HEALTH, Oct. 3, 2018 [House]House of Representatives