Prime Sponsored Bills
2011-2012

I have introduced the following bills for the 2011 – 2012 Legislative Session.  Many are bills that I have introduced in the past, and some are new for this session.  Click on the bill number or title to read the legislation or for a memo summarizing its intent.  Bills without a number have not been assigned one yet. Feel free to contact one of my offices for additional information.

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Senate Bills

SB 22 - Child Welfare Workers Loan Forgiveness Act

SB 23 - Medical malpractice insurance legislation

SB 25 - Beer keg tagging

SB 26 - Limiting rent increases in manufactured housing communities

SB 27 - Puppy Lemon Law amendments

SB 28 - Senior Citizens School Real Property Tax Freeze Act

SB 29 - Prison contraband

SB 30 - Criminal Justice and Mental Health Reinvestment Act

SB 31 - Reimbursing municipal police for serving warrants

SB 32, SB 33, SB 34 - Volunteer firefighters and emergency service personnel

SB 35 - Clean Indoor Air Act amendments

SB 36 - Protecting children in route to school from sex offenders

SB 37 - Office for Safe Schools: substance abuse

SB 38 - Law Enforcement Drug and Violence Task Force Act

SB 39 - Prenatal and postpartum counseling information and screening

SB 40 - Exemption for youth soccer

SB 41 - Immunity for hospital donations

SB 42 - Megan's Law amendments

SB 43 - Medical Assistance Bed Transfer Act

SB 44 - Bounty hunters

SB 45 - Prison industry enhancement

SB 46 - Repeal of Obsolete Juvenile Law

SB 47 - HIV testing because of inmate assault

SB 48 - Court Reporting Contract Law

SB 49 - Capital Case Representation Resource Center Act

SB 50 - Common law courts

SB 51 - Licensure of home inspectors

SB 52 - Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (Zero Emissions)

SB 53 - Seat belts on school buses

SB 54 - Funding for Mass Public Transit Systems

SB 55 - Amending constitution on retention elections

SB 56 - Amending constitution with "magesterial district judge"

SB 57 - Certification examinations for district judges

SB 58 - Sexual Violence Victim Protection Act

SB 59 - Judicial Conduct Board amendments

SB 60 - Child-Care Tax Credit Act

SB 61 - Municipal Land Bank and Affordable Housing Act

SB 62 - Self-employment tax

SB 63 - School-based Child-care Assistance Act

SB 64 - Pupil Transportation

SB 67 - Strip searches

SB 68 - Administrative law amendment

SB 69 - Involuntary termination of parental rights

SB 70 - Hotel law consolidation

SB 71 - Simulcasting greyhound races

SB 72 - Multiple-war license plate

SB 73 - Disabled veteran plate

SB 74, SB 75, SB 76 - Veterans' bonuses

SB 77 - National Guard Youth Challenge Program

SB 78 - Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights

SB 79 - Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act

SB 80 - Interstate Drug Interdiction and Enforcement Compact

SB 81 - Bad faith actions on insurance policies

SB 82 - Exclude Medicare Premiums from Income under the Senior Citizens Property Tax and Rent Rebate Program

SB 83 - Pennsylvania Office of Faith-Based and Non-profit Community Organizations

SB 84 - PHEAA Grants and Online Education

SB 85 - Tax Return Filing Exemption for Seniors

SB 86 - Enhancement of Auto Theft Prevention

SB 87 - Exemptions from jury duty

SB 88 - Uniform Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act

SB 89 - State Licensing Boards: Expungement of records

SB 90 - Exemption from Rabies Vaccination

SB 91 - Gas mineral rights lease agreement disclosure and indemnification

SB 92 - Disclosure of Seller's Return/Exchange Policies

SB 93 - Unused Prescription Drugs

SB 94 - Internet posting of election results

SB 95 - Lemon Law: boats

SB 96 - Powers of Attorney and other Probate Code amendments

SB 97 - Unreimbursed child and dependent care expenses

SB 98 - Credit and debit card blocking

SB 99 - Sentencing of juveniles who commit second degree murder

SB 100 - Criminal Justice Reform Act

SB 111 - Missing children

SB 112 - Bike and jogging trails

SB 113 - Inventory of water recreational opportunities

SB 114 - Window tinting as an unfair trade practice

SB 115 - Assisted Outpatient Treatment

SB 132 - Motor vehicle inspections

SB 133 - First responder hepatitis B inoculations

SB 134 - Emergency vehicles

SB 135 - Payment of Educational Support Services Grants

SB 136 - Medicaid Bed Exception: Continuing Care Retirement Communities

SB 137 - Restroom Access Act

SB 138 - Personal income tax: offsetting gains and losses

SB 139 - "Educational reason" valid excuse for school absence

SB 140 - Donated Services and Equipment Tax Credit Act

SB 141 - Sales tax exemptions

SB 142 - Elderly volunteers

SB 143Leaving the scene of an auto accident

SB 144 - Alzheimer's disease program

SB 145 - Recognition of Bike Medics

SB 146 - Kindergarten starting age

SB 147 - Flood disclosure: sale

SB 148 - Flood disclosure: lease

SB 149 - SafeRide Home

SB 150 - Regulation of Service Contracts

SB 210 - Lyme and Related Tick-Borne Disease Education, Prevention and Treatment Act

SB 340 - Anthracite designated as official state rock

SB 341 - Testing octane levels in gasoline

SB 342 - Occupational Therapy Practice Act amendments

SB 417 - Adoption of a Latin Motto for the Commonwealth

SB 418 - Towing and Towing Storage Facility Standards

SB 500 - Joint and several liability

SB 750 - Donate Life PA Act

SB 850 - Juvenile Justice Amendments

SB 883 - Administrative Procedure Code

SB 884 - Title 15 codification and revisions

SB 959 -  Insurance coverage of tobacco cessation treatments

SB 960 -  Limited liability partnerships/corporations

SB 997 -  Advisory Board of Acquired Brain Injury

SB 1080 - Legislative service agency consolidation

SB 1092 - Third party reliance on powers of attorney

SB 1153 - Post Conviction Relief Act amendment

SB 1205 - Mandatory minimum sentence exception

SB 1228 – Auto Lemon Law repair service extension

SB 1256 – Mental health services for military personnel and their families

SB 1337 – Pennsylvania Commission on Conviction Integrity Act

SB 1338 – Conviction integrity proposals

Senate Resolutions

SR 6 - Death penalty study

SR 8 - Violent crime prevention study resolution

SR 30 – Legislative Budget & Finance Committee Review of PENNVEST

SR 53 - Brain Injury Awareness Month

SR 78 – Ethics Counsel

SR 92 – The Battle of Crooked Billet Day

SR 96 – Lyme disease Awareness Month

SR 97 – Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis Awareness Month

SR 130 – William and Hannah Penn Memorial

SR 144 - Women in Pain Awareness Month

SR 215 – Biomedical Research Day

SR 223 – Lung Cancer Awareness Month

SR 232 – Pallister-Killian Syndrome Awareness Month