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2021–2022 Regular Session

Senate Bill 589

An Act amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in general provisions relating to home rule and optional plan government, further providing for definitions, providing for appointment of government study commission in distressed municipality and further providing for first meeting of commission, for function and duty of commission, for hearings and public forums, for report of findings and recommendations, for limitation on enactment of ordinance or filing of petition and for limitation on municipal powers.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Local Government Committee on October 20, 2022. The 2021–2022 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

4 co-sponsors

Scott E. Hutchinson, Judy Ward, Cris Dush, Judith L. Schwank

Its course

May 5, 2021 to October 20, 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 action10 actions on 6 days

In the SenateMay 5 to Oct 19532 days

Local GovernmentMay 5 to Jan 25265 days

AppropriationsJan 26 to Jul 7162 days

In the House of RepresentativesOct 19 to Oct 20 · stopped1 day

Local GovernmentOct 20 to Oct 20 · stopped0 days

Votes

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

  • Senate, third reading49–0

    Passed · Oct 19, 2022

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 May 5 – Oct 19, 2022

  1. May 5Sent to LOCAL GOVERNMENT
  2. Jan 25, 2022LOCAL GOVERNMENT recommended it
  3. Jan 26, 2022Read a second time
  4. Sent to APPROPRIATIONS
  5. Jul 7, 2022APPROPRIATIONS recommended it
  6. Oct 19, 2022Passed the Senate, 49 to 0

In the House of Representatives Oct 20, 2022

  1. Oct 20, 2022Arrived in the House of Representatives
  2. Sent to LOCAL GOVERNMENT
All 10 actions, as published
  1. May 5Referred to LOCAL GOVERNMENT, May 5, 2021 [Senate]Senate
  2. Jan 25, 2022Reported as committed, Jan. 25, 2022 [Senate]Senate
  3. Jan 25, 2022First consideration, Jan. 25, 2022 [Senate]Senate
  4. Jan 26, 2022Second consideration, Jan. 26, 2022 [Senate]Senate
  5. Jan 26, 2022Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS, Jan. 26, 2022 [Senate]Senate
  6. Jul 7, 2022Re-reported as committed, July 7, 2022 [Senate]Senate
  7. Oct 19, 2022Third consideration and final passage, Oct. 19, 2022 (49-0) [Senate]Senate
  8. Oct 19, 2022(Remarks see Senate Journal Page ....), Oct. 19, 2022 [Senate]Senate
  9. Oct 20, 2022In the House [House]House of Representatives
  10. Oct 20, 2022Referred to LOCAL GOVERNMENT, Oct. 20, 2022 [House]House of Representatives