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2025–2026 Regular Session

Senate Bill 730

An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in health care, further providing for applicability, for definitions, for criminal penalties, for emergency medical services, 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 and for Pennsylvania orders for life-sustaining treatment.

Passed both houses on October 20, 2026, and waits to be sent to the Governor.

Sponsors

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

In the Senate

3 co-sponsors

Wayne D. Fontana, Lisa Baker, Judy Ward

Its course

May 12, 2025 to October 20, 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 action22 actions on 9 days

In the SenateMay 12 to Jun 23407 days

Health & Human ServicesMay 12 to Jun 9393 days

AppropriationsJun 10 to Jun 2212 days

In the House of RepresentativesJun 23 to Oct 20119 days

HealthJun 24 to Oct 7105 days

AppropriationsOct 19 to Oct 201 day

Waiting to be sentFrom Oct 20

Votes

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

  • Senate, third reading49–0

    Passed · Jun 23, 2026

  • House of Representatives, third reading128–75

    Passed · Oct 20, 2026

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • Senate committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Jun 9, 2026

  • House of Representatives floor amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Oct 19, 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 Senate May 12 – Jun 23, 2026

  1. May 12Sent to HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
  2. Jun 9, 2026HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES recommended it as amended
  3. Jun 10, 2026Read a second time
  4. Sent to APPROPRIATIONS
  5. Jun 22, 2026APPROPRIATIONS recommended it
  6. Jun 23, 2026Passed the Senate, 49 to 0

In the House of Representatives Jun 24, 2026 – Oct 20, 2026

  1. Jun 24, 2026Arrived in the House of Representatives
  2. Sent to HEALTH
  3. Oct 7, 2026HEALTH recommended it
  4. Oct 19, 2026Amended and read a second time
  5. Sent to APPROPRIATIONS
  6. Oct 20, 2026APPROPRIATIONS recommended it
  7. Passed the House of Representatives, 128 to 75

To the Governor Oct 20, 2026

  1. Oct 20, 2026Returned to the Senate
  2. Sent to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS
All 22 actions, as published
  1. May 12Referred to HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, May 12, 2025Senate
  2. Jun 9, 2026Reported as amended, June 9, 2026Senate
  3. Jun 9, 2026First consideration, June 9, 2026Senate
  4. Jun 10, 2026Second consideration, June 10, 2026Senate
  5. Jun 10, 2026Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS, June 10, 2026Senate
  6. Jun 22, 2026Re-reported as committed, June 22, 2026Senate
  7. Jun 23, 2026Third consideration and final passage, June 23, 2026 (49-0)Senate
  8. Jun 23, 2026(Remarks see Senate Journal Page 478-484), June 23, 2026Senate
  9. Jun 24, 2026In the HouseHouse of Representatives
  10. Jun 24, 2026Referred to HEALTH, June 24, 2026House of Representatives
  11. Oct 7, 2026Reported as committed, Oct. 7, 2026House of Representatives
  12. Oct 7, 2026First consideration, Oct. 7, 2026House of Representatives
  13. Oct 7, 2026Laid on the table, Oct. 7, 2026House of Representatives
  14. Oct 7, 2026Removed from table, Oct. 7, 2026House of Representatives
  15. Oct 19, 2026Second consideration, with amendments, Oct. 19, 2026House of Representatives
  16. Oct 19, 2026Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS, Oct. 19, 2026House of Representatives
  17. Oct 19, 2026(Remarks see House Journal Page ....), Oct. 19, 2026House of Representatives
  18. Oct 20, 2026Re-reported as committed, Oct. 20, 2026House of Representatives
  19. Oct 20, 2026Third consideration and final passage, Oct. 20, 2026 (128-75)House of Representatives
  20. Oct 20, 2026(Remarks see House Journal Page ....), Oct. 20, 2026House of Representatives
  21. Oct 20, 2026In the SenateSenate
  22. Oct 20, 2026Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, Oct. 20, 2026Senate