Pennsylvania 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.

Status: Act No. 33 of 2023 (as of 2023-12-13)

State: Pennsylvania · Session: 2023-2024 · Bill: HB 301

Sponsors: Patrick Harkins, Ben Waxman, Benjamin Sanchez, Carol Hill-Evans, Dan Williams, Ed Neilson, Eddie Pashinski, Emily Kinkead, Joe Ciresi, Joe Webster, Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz, John Galloway, Joseph Hohenstein, Maureen Madden, Michael Schlossberg, Napoleon J. Nelson, P. Sturla, Perry Warren, Robert Freeman, Stephen Kinsey, Steve Samuelson, Steven Malagari, Tarik Khan

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PRINTER'S NO. 244
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 301
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY STAMBAUGH, STEHR, KAUFFMAN, M. BROWN, SOLOMON,
SHAFFER AND BONNER, JANUARY 23, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 23, 2025
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, further providing for terms of members.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby resolves as follows:
Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
That section 3 of Article II be amended to read:
§ 3. Terms of members.
(a) Senators shall be elected for the term of four years and
Representatives for the term of two years.
(b) A Senator shall not be eligible for election to more
than three consecutive full terms of office in the Senate. A
Representative shall not be eligible for election to more than
six consecutive full terms of office in the House of
Representatives.
(c) A Senator who has served three consecutive full terms in
the Senate shall be eligible for election to the Senate at an
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election held not less than four years after the completion of
the Senator's third consecutive full term of office. A
Representative who has served six consecutive full terms in the
House of Representatives shall be eligible for election to the
House of Representatives at an election held not less than four
years after completion of the Representative's sixth consecutive
full term of office.
Section 2. The following procedure applies to the proposed
constitutional amendment in this joint resolution:
(1) Upon the first passage by the General Assembly of
the amendment, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
proceed immediately to comply with the advertising
requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania.
(2) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of
the amendment, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
proceed immediately to comply with the advertising
requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
submit the amendment to the qualified electors of this
Commonwealth at the first primary, general or municipal
election which meets the requirements of section 1 of Article
XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.
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