Pennsylvania HB 2012: An Act providing for plumber and plumbing contractors licensure; establishing the State Board of Plumbing Contractors and providing for its powers and duties; conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of State; establishing fees, fines and civil penalties; establishing the Plumbing Contractors Licensure Account; and making an appropriation.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 2566
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2012
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY SCOTT, BRENNAN, HILL-EVANS, GIRAL, NEILSON,
T. DAVIS, HADDOCK, CIRESI AND CEPEDA-FREYTIZ,
NOVEMBER 3, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE,
NOVEMBER 6, 2025
AN ACT
Providing for plumber and plumbing contractors licensure;
establishing the State Board of Plumbing Contractors and
providing for its powers and duties; conferring powers and
imposing duties on the Department of State; establishing
fees, fines and civil penalties; establishing the Plumbing
Contractors Licensure Account; and making an appropriation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Preliminary Provisions
Section 101. Short title.
Section 102. Declaration of purpose.
Section 103. Definitions.
Chapter 3. State Board of Plumbing Contractors
Section 301. State Board of Plumbing Contractors.
Section 302. Powers and duties of board.
Chapter 5. Licensure
Section 501. Licensure.
Section 502. Qualifications.
Section 503. Continuing education.
Section 504. Plumbing contractors in other states.
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Section 505. Duration of license.
Section 506. Reporting of multiple licensure.
Section 507. Prohibition.
Chapter 7. Administration and Enforcement
Section 701. Fees, fines and civil penalties.
Section 702. Violations.
Section 703. Refusal, suspension or revocation of license.
Section 704. Suspensions and revocations.
Section 705. Temporary and automatic suspensions.
Section 706. Reinstatement of license.
Section 707. Surrender of suspended or revoked license.
Section 708. Injunction.
Section 709. Subpoenas and oaths.
Chapter 9. Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 901. Municipalities.
Section 902. Appropriation.
Section 903. Regulations.
Section 904. Effective date.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
CHAPTER 1
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Section 101. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Plumber and
Plumbing Contractors Licensure Act.
Section 102. Declaration of purpose.
The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:
(1) Nothing in this act shall be construed to change the
manner in which an authority having jurisdiction currently
requires permitting for work to any portion of a plumbing
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system on the effective date of this paragraph.
(2) Nothing in this act shall be intended to compel an
authority having jurisdiction to adopt additional or expanded
permitting requirements to install or modify any portion of a
plumbing system beyond the current requirements on the
effective date of this paragraph.
(3) If an authority having jurisdiction requires a
plumbing permit to install or modify any portion of a
plumbing system, only an individual who is licensed under
this act to provide plumbing services shall facilitate the
work.
Section 103. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Apprentice plumber." An individual who is registered as an
apprentice under the act of July 14, 1961 (P.L.604, No.304),
known as The Apprenticeship and Training Act, and who is
licensed by the board as an individual whose principal
occupation is learning and assisting in the performance of
plumbing services.
"Board." The State Board of Plumbing Contractors established
under section 301(a).
"Conviction." The term includes a judgment, an admission of
guilt or a plea of nolo contendere.
"Department." The Department of State of the Commonwealth.
"Journeyman plumber." An individual who is licensed by the
board to assist a master plumber with the performance of
plumbing services.
"Master plumber" or "licensed plumbing contractor." An
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individual who has been licensed by the board and who is
authorized to perform plumbing services and to supervise
plumbing services provided by an apprentice plumber or a
journeyman plumber.
"Minor repairs." The repair of an existing plumbing fixture,
including the replacement of faucets or valves or parts of
faucets or valves, the clearance of stoppages, the stopping of
leaks without replacement of water, drainage or vent piping, the
relieving of frozen pipes or other minor replacement or repair
of existing plumbing fixtures.
"Plumbing services." The installation, maintenance,
extension, erection, repair or alteration of piping, plumbing
fixtures, plumbing appliances and plumbing apparatus in
connection with sanitary drainage, storm piping and facilities
and building sewers to the facility's or sewer's final
connection to an approved point of disposal, venting systems,
public and private water supply systems of a premises or
building within the property line and to the final connection
with an approved supply