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2025–2026 Regular Session

House Bill 490

An Act amending Titles 2 (Administrative Law and Procedure) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in depositions and witnesses, further providing for confidential communications to news reporters; and making editorial changes.

In the Senate's Judiciary Committee since February 27, 2026.

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

17 co-sponsors

Arvind Venkat, Tarik Khan, Jose Giral, Benjamin V. Sanchez, Chris Pielli, Liz Hanbidge, Carol Hill-Evans, Jim Haddock, Michael H. Schlossberg, Jennifer O'Mara, MaryLouise Isaacson, Danielle Friel Otten, G. Roni Green, Emily Kinkead, Joe Webster, Abigail Salisbury, TINA M. DAVIS

Its course

February 5, 2025 to February 27, 2026, 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 RepresentativesFeb 5 to Feb 4364 days

JudiciaryFeb 5 to Nov 17285 days

AppropriationsFeb 3 to Feb 41 day

In the SenateFrom Feb 4

JudiciaryFrom Feb 27

Votes

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

  • House of Representatives, third reading100–98

    Passed · Feb 4, 2026

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 Feb 5 – Feb 4, 2026

  1. Feb 5Sent to JUDICIARY
  2. Nov 17JUDICIARY recommended it
  3. Feb 3, 2026Read a second time
  4. Sent to APPROPRIATIONS
  5. Feb 4, 2026APPROPRIATIONS recommended it
  6. Passed the House of Representatives, 100 to 98

In the Senate Feb 27, 2026

  1. Feb 27, 2026Arrived in the Senate
  2. Sent to JUDICIARY
All 13 actions, as published
  1. Feb 5Referred to JUDICIARY, Feb. 5, 2025House of Representatives
  2. Nov 17Reported as committed, Nov. 17, 2025House of Representatives
  3. Nov 17First consideration, Nov. 17, 2025House of Representatives
  4. Nov 17Laid on the table, Nov. 17, 2025House of Representatives
  5. Feb 2, 2026Removed from table, Feb. 2, 2026House of Representatives
  6. Feb 3, 2026Second consideration, Feb. 3, 2026House of Representatives
  7. Feb 3, 2026Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS, Feb. 3, 2026House of Representatives
  8. Feb 3, 2026(Remarks see House Journal Page 72-73), Feb. 3, 2026House of Representatives
  9. Feb 4, 2026Re-reported as committed, Feb. 4, 2026House of Representatives
  10. Feb 4, 2026Third consideration and final passage, Feb. 4, 2026 (100-98)House of Representatives
  11. Feb 4, 2026(Remarks see House Journal Page 110), Feb. 4, 2026House of Representatives
  12. Feb 27, 2026In the SenateSenate
  13. Feb 27, 2026Referred to JUDICIARY, Feb. 27, 2026Senate