News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap The final days of the 2019 session schedule came and went this week as members returned to Harrisburg…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap In what seemed like a whirlwind, the House of Representatives and Senate were in session last week for…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap It was a mostly quiet week in state government, with just a few things to highlight: The Commonwealth…
News from Second & State – Municipal Election Results
Yesterday’s Municipal Election was highlighted by local races throughout the state. However, voters across all the Commonwealth’s 67 counties were…
News from Second & State
Another busy session week has come to an end, and the legislature won’t reconvene for voting session until Monday, November…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap Convening for three of the relatively few session days both chambers are in session this fall, the House…
News from Second and State: October 25, 2019
Weekly Wrap Convening for three of the relatively few session days both chambers are in session this fall, the House…
News from Second and State
The Week Ahead After a nearly month-long recess, the House of Representatives and Senate are back in session on Monday.…
Worth Another Look: Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
On October 3, 2019, Governor Tom Wolf issued Executive Order – 2019-07- Commonwealth Leadership in Addressing Climate Change through Electric…
News from Second & State: September 27, 2019
Weekly Wrap Happy fall! The first week of autumn brought a busy legislature with it this week, as both the…
News From Second & State: September 20, 2019
Weekly Wrap The House of Representatives were back in session this week after a summer recess that lasted more than…
News From Second & State: September 13, 2019
An on-time budget in June brought a quiet summer in Harrisburg, but the dog days are behind us and it’s…
Post-Budget Update
While the budget is always the headliner during the last week of June, plenty of other bills are often in…
Worth Another Look: Tax Reform Code
Wrapping up by the June 30 deadline with time to spare, the General Assembly sent the Governor all of the…
Worth Another Look: Administrative Code
Wrapping up by the June 30 deadline with time to spare, the General Assembly sent the Governor all of the…
Worth Another Look: Public School Code
Wrapping up by the June 30 deadline with time to spare, the General Assembly sent the Governor all of the…
Worth Another Look: Human Services Code
Each year, along with a General Appropriations (GA) bill, the General Assembly will enact several “Code bills.” These bills typically…
Worth Another Look: Fiscal Code
Wrapping up by the June 30 deadline with time to spare, the General Assembly sent the Governor all of the…
Worth Another Look: General Appropriations Bill
The 2019-20 General Appropriations bill (H.B. 790) will make its way to the Governor’s desk after final passage in the…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap It was a busy budget week, but we’re not quite at the end yet. Working against a June…
News from Second & State
We’re at about the halfway point in budget month and while we haven’t seen a lot of work yet on…
News from Second & State
Bills were flying through committees and across chambers this week, as the House of Representatives and Senate held the first…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap The Municipal Election came and went with the results bearing no real surprises. The party-backed candidates won their…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap This was the final week of session before the June budget ramp up and only the House of…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap For the last time until June, the House of Representatives and Senate were both in session this week.…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap This was the first of two weeks where both the House of Representatives and the Senate are in…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap All was quiet on the Capitol front this week, with neither chamber in Harrisburg for any legislative activity.…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap This week, only the House of Representatives was in Harrisburg to conduct legislative business. On Monday, the House…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap The House of Representatives and Senate were in session, as this week was filled with voting meetings, public…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap With no session days this week, all eyes were on western Pennsylvania, as a special election took place…
News from Second & State
March 29, 2019 Weekly Wrap Contrary to the popular saying, March went out like a lion this week, with three…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap Both the House of Representatives and Senate were in session this week, as the first bill of the…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap With budget hearings behind us, it was back to business as usual this week in Harrisburg, with the…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap This was the last week of scheduled budget hearings for FY 2019-20. Over the last few weeks, the…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap The House and Senate Appropriations Committees were the only show in town, as they held budget hearings throughout…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap Things got started a day late for both chambers this week due to the Presidents’ Day holiday. The…
Weekly Wrap
Budget hearings are underway in the House, as the House Appropriations Committee was in Harrisburg for a week’s full of…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap It was a busy week in the state Capitol, with both the Senate and the House of Representatives…
Worth Another Look: Governor’s 2019-20 Proposed Budget
Governor Wolf delivered his 2019-2020 budget proposal to the General Assembly this morning. Wolf’s $34.146 billion spending plan is a…
Worth Another Look: Governor Wolf’s Budget Address
Governor Tom Wolf delivered his fifth budget address today, marrying the themes of his prior addresses – Schools that Teach,…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap Both the House of Representatives and the Senate held their first voting days of the new session this…
News from Second & State
Weekly Wrap Happy New Year! On Tuesday, January 1, members of the General Assembly took their oath of office and…