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2025–2026 Regular Session

House Bill 1233

An Act amending Title 27 (Environmental Resources) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for portable battery stewardship and establishing requirements for Battery Stewardship Plans; imposing duties on the Department of Environmental Protection; and imposing penalties.

In the Senate's Environmental Resources & Energy Committee since November 24, 2025.

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

16 co-sponsors

Danielle Friel Otten, Mandy Steele, Maureen E. Madden, Carol Hill-Evans, GREG VITALI, ROBERT FREEMAN, Benjamin V. Sanchez, STEVE SAMUELSON, Jim Haddock, Nikki Rivera, Joe Ciresi, Abigail Salisbury, Tarik Khan, Tim Brennan, Keith S. Harris, Dan Goughnour

Its course

April 15 to November 24, 2025, 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 action13 actions on 6 days

In the House of RepresentativesApr 15 to Nov 18217 days

Environmental & Natural Resource ProtectionApr 15 to May 520 days

AppropriationsNov 17 to Nov 181 day

In the SenateFrom Nov 18

Environmental Resources & EnergyFrom Nov 24

Votes

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

  • House of Representatives, third reading111–91

    Passed · Nov 18

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • House of Representatives floor amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Nov 17

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 House of Representatives Apr 15 – Nov 18

  1. Apr 15Sent to ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE PROTECTION
  2. May 5ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE PROTECTION recommended it
  3. Nov 17Amended and read a second time
  4. Sent to APPROPRIATIONS
  5. Nov 18APPROPRIATIONS recommended it
  6. Passed the House of Representatives, 111 to 91

In the Senate Nov 24

  1. Nov 24Arrived in the Senate
  2. Sent to ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY
All 13 actions, as published
  1. Apr 15Referred to ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE PROTECTION, April 15, 2025House of Representatives
  2. May 5Reported as committed, May 5, 2025House of Representatives
  3. May 5First consideration, May 5, 2025House of Representatives
  4. May 5Laid on the table, May 5, 2025House of Representatives
  5. Oct 29Removed from table, Oct. 29, 2025House of Representatives
  6. Nov 17Second consideration, with amendments, Nov. 17, 2025House of Representatives
  7. Nov 17Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS, Nov. 17, 2025House of Representatives
  8. Nov 17(Remarks see House Journal Page 1562-1565), Nov. 17, 2025House of Representatives
  9. Nov 18Re-reported as committed, Nov. 18, 2025House of Representatives
  10. Nov 18Third consideration and final passage, Nov. 18, 2025 (111-91)House of Representatives
  11. Nov 18(Remarks see House Journal Page 1579-1580), Nov. 18, 2025House of Representatives
  12. Nov 24In the SenateSenate
  13. Nov 24Referred to ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, Nov. 24, 2025Senate