R Pennsylvania Senate · District 30 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Judy Ward

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Session

Total votes

5,547

all sessions

Attendance

99%

34 missed

Lower than 84% of chamber peers

With party

98%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Lower than 80% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

5,091

voted in favor

Nay

410

voted against

Absent

34

missed votes

Total cast

5,547

across all sessions

Crossed party

85

votes against own party

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 790

An Act relating to conventional wells and the development of oil, gas and coal; imposing powers and duties on the Department of Environmental Protection; providing for preliminary provisions, for general requirements, for enforcement and remedies, for related funds and for miscellaneous provisions; and making an appropriation.

Yea

Passed

26–23

Oct 21, 2019

HR 470

A Concurrent Resolution recognizing October 13, 2019, as the 244th birthday of the United States Navy.

Yea

Passed

49–0

Sep 25, 2019

HB 1170

An Act prohibiting the employment of unauthorized employees; requiring construction industry employers to verify the Social Security numbers of employees; and imposing penalties.

Yea

Passed

46–3

Sep 25, 2019

SB 439

An Act amending the act of June 28, 1935 (P.L.477, No.193), referred to as the Enforcement Officer Disability Benefits Law, further providing for disability benefits and for definitions.

Yea

Passed

49–0

Sep 25, 2019

HB 1557

An Act amending the act of September 24, 1968 (P.L.1040, No.318), known as the Coal Refuse Disposal Control Act, further providing for designating areas unsuitable for coal refuse disposal.

Yea

Passed

46–3

Sep 25, 2019

SB 694

Amending the act of July 20, 1979 (P.L.183, No.60), known as the Oil and Gas Lease Act, providing for cross unit drilling for unconventional wells.

Yea

Passed

49–0

Sep 25, 2019

SB 473

An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in minors, further providing for the offense of sale of tobacco and for the offense of use of tobacco in schools; and, in preemptions relating to municipalities, further providing for tobacco.

Yea

Passed

43–6

Sep 25, 2019

HB 1170

An Act prohibiting the employment of unauthorized employees; requiring construction industry employers to verify the Social Security numbers of employees; and imposing penalties.

Nay

Failed

7–42

Sep 25, 2019

HB 265

An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in preliminary provisions, providing for career information and recruitment; in terms and courses of study, further providing for Commission for Agricultural Education Excellence; in vocational education, further providing for advisory committees, providing for a workforce development program clearinghouse and for PAsmart online career resource center, further providing for career and technical education equipment grants and providing for utilization of credits; establishing the Schools-to-Work Program and providing for powers and duties of the Department of Labor and Industry; providing for classification of program code; in transfers of credits between institutions of higher education, further providing for definitions, for duties of public institutions of higher education and State-related institutions, for Transfer and Articulation Oversight Committee and for duties of department; replacing references to "vocational-technical" with "career and technical," replacing references to "vocational" with "career and technical" and replacing references to "vocation" with "career and technical"; deleting references to vocational school districts; and renaming the State Board for Vocational Education as the State Board of Career and Technical Education.

Yea

Passed

49–0

Sep 25, 2019

SB 532

An Act amending Title 38 (Holidays and Observances) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for holidays and observances.

Yea

Passed

11–0

Sep 24, 2019