An Act amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code, in primary and election expenses, further providing for reporting by candidate and political committees and other persons, for late contributions and independent expenditures, for oath of compliance, perjury, disqualification from office and commercial use, for residual funds and for place of filing, providing for manner of filing and for inability to file reports or statements electronically by deadline and further providing for late filing fee and certificate of filing, for additional powers and duties of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and for reports by business entities and publication by Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2019
Committee Review
May 2019
Senate Passage
May 2019
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 1, 2019
Last action May 7, 2019
Floor votes · Senate May 6, 2019
How they voted
28–0
Passed
Total votes 28
May 6, 2019
D
Democratic13
100% Yea
R
Republican15
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
9
Key actions
3
Committee
5
Amendments
1
May 7, 2019
Committee
Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT
lower
May 6, 2019
Upper · Passed
Third consideration and final passage
upper
Apr 30, 2019
Introduced
PN 0681 Amended on third consideration
upper
Apr 29, 2019
Upper · Passed
PN 0658 Re-reported as amended
upper
Apr 10, 2019
Committee
Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS
upper
Apr 9, 2019
Upper · Passed
PN 0585 Reported as amended
upper
Feb 1, 2019
Committee
PN 0135 Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT
upper
1 primary · 15 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Patrick M. Browne
RRepublican
Co
Art Haywood
DDemocratic
Co
Bob Mensch
RRepublican
Co
Gene Yaw
RRepublican
Co
Jim Brewster
DDemocratic
Co
John R. Gordner
RRepublican
Co
Judy Schwank
DDemocratic
Co
Lawrence M. Farnese
DDemocratic
Co
Lisa Boscola
DDemocratic
Co
Mario M. Scavello
RRepublican
Co
Mike Folmer
RRepublican
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