Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Appropriations Committee on January 24, 2022. The 2021–2022 session has ended.
2021–2022 Regular Session
House Bill 491
An Act amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for the exclusion of veterans' benefit payments from income for Commonwealth programs.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the House of Representatives
Sponsor
20 co-sponsors
Joe Hamm, Carol Hill-Evans, Joseph C. Hohenstein, R. Lee James, Michael J. Driscoll, Nick Pisciottano, SUSAN C. HELM, SCOTT CONKLIN, RYAN E. MACKENZIE, Jennifer O'Mara, ROBERT FREEMAN, Joe Webster, Joe Ciresi, CHRISTOPHER SAINATO, Milou Mackenzie, MARK M. GILLEN, F. Todd Polinchock, Francis X. Ryan, TINA M. DAVIS, David M. Delloso
Its course
February 9, 2021 to January 24, 2022, 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 action16 actions on 8 days
In the House of RepresentativesFeb 9 to Mar 2443 days
Veterans Affairs & Emergency PreparednessFeb 9 to Mar 1635 days
AppropriationsMar 23 to Mar 241 day
In the SenateMar 24 to Jan 24 · stopped306 days
Veterans Affairs & Emergency PreparednessMar 25 to Nov 9229 days
AppropriationsJan 24 to Jan 24 · stopped0 days
Votes
Yeas to nays, as the General Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.
House of Representatives, third reading201–0
Passed · Mar 24
Amendments
Each amendment offered, and what became of it.
House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted
Adopted Mar 16
Text
Each version as the General Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.
In the House of Representatives Feb 9 – Mar 24
- Feb 9Sent to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
- Mar 16VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS recommended it as amended
- Mar 23Read a second time
- Sent to APPROPRIATIONS
- Mar 24APPROPRIATIONS recommended it
- Passed the House of Representatives, 201 to 0
In the Senate Mar 25 – Jan 24, 2022
- Mar 25Arrived in the Senate
- Sent to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
- Nov 9VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS recommended it
- Jan 24, 2022Read a second time
- Sent to APPROPRIATIONS
All 16 actions, as published
- Feb 9Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, Feb. 9, 2021 [House]House of Representatives
- Mar 16Reported as amended, March 16, 2021 [House]House of Representatives
- Mar 16First consideration, March 16, 2021 [House]House of Representatives
- Mar 16Laid on the table, March 16, 2021 [House]House of Representatives
- Mar 22Removed from table, March 22, 2021 [House]House of Representatives
- Mar 23Second consideration, March 23, 2021 [House]House of Representatives
- Mar 23Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS, March 23, 2021 [House]House of Representatives
- Mar 24Re-reported as committed, March 24, 2021 [House]House of Representatives
- Mar 24Third consideration and final passage, March 24, 2021 (201-0) [House]House of Representatives
- Mar 24(Remarks see House Journal Page 370 - 371), March 24, 2021 [House]House of Representatives
- Mar 25In the Senate [Senate]Senate
- Mar 25Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, March 25, 2021 [Senate]Senate
- Nov 9Reported as committed, Nov. 9, 2021 [Senate]Senate
- Nov 9First consideration, Nov. 9, 2021 [Senate]Senate
- Jan 24, 2022Second consideration, Jan. 24, 2022 [Senate]Senate
- Jan 24, 2022Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS, Jan. 24, 2022 [Senate]Senate