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R Pennsylvania Senate · District 50 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Michele Brooks

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Total votes
4,337
all sessions
Attendance
99%
35 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
96%
of cast votes
Lower than 78% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
2%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
723
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
6
assignments
4,337 roll-call votes

Voting record

Yea
3,979
voted in favor
Nay
289
voted against
Absent
35
missed votes
Total cast
4,337
across all sessions
Crossed party
164
votes against own party
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Description
Vote
Result
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Date
SR 110
A Resolution directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a performance audit of the Neighborhood Improvement Zone and Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone Development Authority programs administered by the Department of Revenue.
Yea
Passed
11–0
Dec 13, 2023
SB 219
An Act amending the act of December 13, 1988 (P.L.1190, No.146), known as the First and Second Class County Property Tax Relief Act, further providing for short title, for definitions, for deferral or exemption authority and for retroactive application.
Yea
Passed
11–0
Dec 13, 2023
SB 843
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, further providing for Special Education Funding Commission, for Basic Education Funding Commission and for Commission on Education and Economic Competitiveness and providing for public job posting database, for instructional vacancy data and for data transparency; providing for Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact; in drug and alcohol recovery high school program, further providing for scope of program and selection of students, providing for enrollment of students and further providing for academic programs; in terms and courses of study, further providing for Economic Education and Personal Financial Literacy Programs; in early learning programs, providing for quarterly reporting; in high schools, further providing for attendance in other districts; in educational tax credits, further providing for definitions; in credit card marketing, further providing for regulation of on-campus credit card marketing; in reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for assistance to school districts declared to be in financial recovery status or identified for financial watch status; and abrogating regulations.
Yea
Passed
17–0
Dec 13, 2023
SB 843
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, further providing for Special Education Funding Commission, for Basic Education Funding Commission and for Commission on Education and Economic Competitiveness and providing for public job posting database, for instructional vacancy data and for data transparency; providing for Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact; in drug and alcohol recovery high school program, further providing for scope of program and selection of students, providing for enrollment of students and further providing for academic programs; in terms and courses of study, further providing for Economic Education and Personal Financial Literacy Programs; in early learning programs, providing for quarterly reporting; in high schools, further providing for attendance in other districts; in educational tax credits, further providing for definitions; in credit card marketing, further providing for regulation of on-campus credit card marketing; in reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for assistance to school districts declared to be in financial recovery status or identified for financial watch status; and abrogating regulations.
Yea
Passed
17–0
Dec 13, 2023
HB 1300
An Act amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, in emergency COVID-19 response, providing for declined and unclaimed allocations; providing for 911 emergency communication services and for institutions of purely public charity; in Department of Revenue, providing for exclusion from classes of income; providing for indigent defense; in oil and gas wells, further providing for Oil and Gas Lease Fund; in transportation network companies, motor carrier companies and parking authority of a city of the first class, providing for designated municipal agent and authorized salvor for city of the first class; in human services, providing for medical assistance dental services and packages; providing for Attorney General, for Pennsylvania Long-Term Care Council, for Pennsylvania child and dependent care enhancement tax credit program and for additional keystone opportunity expansion zones; in special funds, further providing for funding; in additional special funds and restricted accounts, further providing for establishment of special fund and account, for use of fund and for distributions from Pennsylvania Race Horse Development Fund and repealing provisions relating to Enhanced Revenue Collection Account; in additional special funds and restricted accounts, further providing for definitions, for Sports Tourism and Marketing Account and for transfer of funds and providing for Service and Infrastructure Improvement Fund; in general budget implementation, further providing for executive offices, for Department of Agriculture, for Department of Community and Economic Development, for Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, for Department of Health, for Department of Human Services and for Pennsylvania State Police, providing for Commonwealth Financing Authority, further providing for Federal and Commonwealth use of forest land and for Multimodal Transportation Fund and repealing provisions relating to sales by distilleries; providing for 2023-2024 budget implementation, for 2023-2024 restrictions on appropriations for funds and accounts, for 2023-2024 fund transfers and for prior year appropriations; making repeals; and making an editorial change.
Yea
Passed
17–0
Dec 13, 2023
HB 1300
An Act amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, in emergency COVID-19 response, providing for declined and unclaimed allocations; providing for 911 emergency communication services and for institutions of purely public charity; in Department of Revenue, providing for exclusion from classes of income; providing for indigent defense; in oil and gas wells, further providing for Oil and Gas Lease Fund; in transportation network companies, motor carrier companies and parking authority of a city of the first class, providing for designated municipal agent and authorized salvor for city of the first class; in human services, providing for medical assistance dental services and packages; providing for Attorney General, for Pennsylvania Long-Term Care Council, for Pennsylvania child and dependent care enhancement tax credit program and for additional keystone opportunity expansion zones; in special funds, further providing for funding; in additional special funds and restricted accounts, further providing for establishment of special fund and account, for use of fund and for distributions from Pennsylvania Race Horse Development Fund and repealing provisions relating to Enhanced Revenue Collection Account; in additional special funds and restricted accounts, further providing for definitions, for Sports Tourism and Marketing Account and for transfer of funds and providing for Service and Infrastructure Improvement Fund; in general budget implementation, further providing for executive offices, for Department of Agriculture, for Department of Community and Economic Development, for Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, for Department of Health, for Department of Human Services and for Pennsylvania State Police, providing for Commonwealth Financing Authority, further providing for Federal and Commonwealth use of forest land and for Multimodal Transportation Fund and repealing provisions relating to sales by distilleries; providing for 2023-2024 budget implementation, for 2023-2024 restrictions on appropriations for funds and accounts, for 2023-2024 fund transfers and for prior year appropriations; making repeals; and making an editorial change.
Yea
Passed
17–0
Dec 13, 2023
SB 838
An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in sentencing, further providing for order of probation, for conditions of probation and for modification or revocation of order of probation and providing for probation review conference. Against party
Nay
Passed
16–1
Dec 13, 2023
SB 815
An Act amending the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971, in personal income tax, further providing for imposition of tax and for taxability of estates, trusts and their beneficiaries; and, in corporate net income tax, further providing for manufacturing innovation and reinvestment deduction.
Yea
Passed
17–0
Dec 13, 2023
SB 596
An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in theft and related offenses, further providing for the offense of organized retail theft; and establishing the Office of Deputy Attorney General for Organized Retail Crime Theft.
Yea
Passed
15–2
Dec 13, 2023
HB 301
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, further providing for special provisions applicable to limited school years; in duties and powers of board of school directors, further providing for additional schools and departments; in grounds and buildings, further providing for limitation on new applications for Department of Education approval of public school building projects; in school directors' associations and county boards of school directors, further providing for powers and duties; in intermediate units, further providing for visual services and for school safety and security enhancements; in certification of teachers, further providing for substitute teaching permit for prospective teachers and for locally issued temporary certification for substitute teachers, repealing provisions relating to permit for classroom monitors and providing for permit for classroom monitors; providing for the Educator Pipeline Support Grant Program; in pupils and attendance, further providing for compulsory education of physical defectives, for school lunch and breakfast reimbursement, for dependent children, for actual cost of tuition and maintenance of certain exceptional children in the four chartered schools for education of the deaf and the blind, for payment of cost of tuition and maintenance of certain exceptional children, for transfer of funds for transferal programs and for children under six with defective hearing and parent or guardian advised of schools, etc.; in safe schools, further providing for definitions and for Office for Safe Schools, repealing provisions relating to regulations and to reporting, further providing for policy relating to bullying and for maintenance of records and repealing provisions relating to Safe Schools Advocate in School Districts of the First Class, to standing, to enforcement and to construction of article and other laws; in school safety and security, further providing for definitions and for school safety and security committee, providing for duties of committee, further providing for School Safety and Security Grant Program, providing for Targeted School Safety Grants for Nonpublic Schools and School Entities Program, for standardized protocols, for county safe schools' collaborative and for school mental health grants for 2023-2024 school year, further providing for school safety and security coordinator training and providing for reporting and memorandum of understanding, for safe schools advocate in school districts of the first class and for enforcement; in school security, further providing for definitions, for school police officers, for annual report and for school security guards; in character education program, further providing for character education program; in community colleges, further providing for financial program and reimbursement of payments; in educational tax credits, further providing for definitions, for qualification and application by organizations and for limitations; in school districts of the first class, further providing for qualifications of principals and teachers; in funding for public libraries, providing for State aid for fiscal year 2023-2024; in reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for definitions and for payments on account of pupils enrolled in career and technical curriculums, for payments on account of courses for exceptional children, for payments to intermediate units, for assistance to school districts declared to be in financial recovery status or identified for financial watch status, for payments, for payments on account of pupil transportation, for Ready-to-Learn Block Grant and for payment of required contribution for public school employees' Social Security; in construction and renovation of buildings by school entities, further providing for applicability; providing for School Environmental Repairs Program; and making an editorial change.
Yea
Passed
17–0
Dec 13, 2023
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