This bill amends Pennsylvania's military affairs laws to require employers with more than 50 full-time employees to display a standardized workplace posting about veterans' benefits and services. The Department of Labor and Industry will create this posting and make it available online for employers to print, and employers can display it either physically in a conspicuous workplace area or on their internal website. The workplace posting must include contact information for the state veterans' department, details about federal and state veteran benefits, the Veterans Affairs Crisis Line contact information, and county veterans' affairs directors' contact details. The bill also makes some minor editorial changes to the title of Part V of Title 51, changing "Employment Preferences" to simply "Employment and Pensions". Employers will have 180 days to comply with the workplace posting requirement, and the rest of the bill will take effect 90 days after passage. The posting will be exempt from certain regulatory review processes, and the department must publish a notice about the posting in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.

PA HB799

Veterans’ Benefits Posting Compliance Act

SB376 bans the use of TikTok on all state-owned electronic devices and networks in Pennsylvania, citing data privacy and national security concerns. State employees will have three months to stop downloading or using the app, with exceptions only for law enforcement, security, or research purposes. The law takes effect 60 days after passage. 

SB376

No TikTok on Taxpayer Tech Act

SB686 strengthens Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law by making it a felony to intentionally tamper with public records that are part of an active information request or appeal. It upgrades the offense from a misdemeanor to a third-degree felony if the intent is to defraud or cause harm. The law takes effect 60 days after passage to allow time for compliance and awareness.

SB686

Right‑to‑Know Records Protection Act

This bill updates the Right-to-Know Law by expanding and clarifying the list of entities classified as "State-affiliated," ensuring more Commonwealth authorities and commissions are explicitly subject to public transparency requirements. It adds new organizations to the definition while continuing to exclude state-related institutions like major public universities. The bill takes effect 60 days after enactment, aiming to improve clarity and access to public records.

SB226

Right‑to‑Know Law Expansion Act

Requires public schools and universities to designate sports teams as male, female, or co-ed, and would prohibit biological males from competing on girls’ or women’s teams. It allows female athletes to take legal action if they lose opportunities due to violating these rules. Supporters argue it protects fairness and safety in women’s sports by recognizing biological differences

Fairness in Women’s Sports Act

This bill updates a law from 1961 about making stuffed toys safe in Pennsylvania. It adds definitions, requires manufacturers to register, ensures safe materials are used, sets enforcement measures, mandates labeling with material info and anti-labor abuse certification.

HB1333

Mandating Labeling Promising Safe Manufacturing and Anti-Labor Abuse Certification

Senate Bill 269 proposes tax changes in Pennsylvania: a $500 tax credit for volunteer EMTs, a reduction in the personal income tax rate from 3.07% to 2.8%, elimination of the gross receipts tax on electric energy sales, and a $6 million annual transfer to the Alternative Fuels Incentive Fund.

SB269

Tax Credit for EMT's

This bill requires the Attorney General or a district attorney to notify United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the arraignment of a defendant who is an illegal migrant.

SB1127

Illegal Migrant Notification Act

Senate Bill 975 makes terroristic threats against schools or educational facilities a more serious crime, upgrading it from a misdemeanor to a felony.

SB975

Classifying Terrorist threats to a School as a Felony

This bill amends the current bail practices used when a person is considered a threat to public safety. This bill allows issuing authorities to deny bail if a person is deemed a threat to public safety. This bill also defines "person posing a threat to public safety" as someone who is charged with a violent crime or a serious drug offense involving substances like fentanyl.

SB1120

Strengthening Bail Requirements for Criminals that are a Threat to the Public

This bill gives parents more control over what sexually explicit materials their children are exposed to in schools. It requires schools to create a policy by August 30, 2024, that lets parents decide if their child can access school materials that contain sexual content. This bill also gives parents the option to review school materials if they ask. Parents must sign a form in order to let their child access sexual materials in schools.

Parental Oversight and Consent Act

Senate Bill 340 makes it mandatory for schools to put certain curriculum info online. Starting from the 2024-2025 school year, schools have to post links or titles for all the textbooks they use, along with a summary of each course and the state standards it follows. They must update this info within 30 days of any changes.

SB340

Transparent Education Act

Providing for display of the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States in each school building.

SB456

Displaying the U.S. Constitution in Schools

Providing for display of the Preamble of the Constitution of Pennsylvania in each school building.

SB353

Displaying the PA Constitution in Schools

This bill charges a person with criminal homicide if they provide a citizen with fentanyl in which results in the death of the user.

SB235

Fentanyl Fatality Responsibility Act.

This bill provides that Philadelphia can't tax non-residents who work there but do all their work outside the city. If they work partly in the city, only that part can be taxed. And it doesn't matter if they use technology to work from somewhere else; they'll be taxed based on where they physically are.

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