Despite the fact that the 2025-26 Pennsylvania state legislative session is not scheduled to formally begin until next month, the first two days of the last month of 2024 have seen a flurry of activity.

How big a flurry? How about 299 new co-sponsorship memos in search of names to attach?

That’s 130 memos in the state House and 169 in the state Senate. These are a way of publicizing and gauging support among colleagues for a concept that may soon afterward be submitted in the form of a bill.

Rep. Robert Leadbeter (R-Columbia) submitted 29 memos on his own, while Rep. Russ Diamond (R-Lebanon) was second with 10.

In the upper chamber, Sen. Lisa Boscola (D-Lehigh/Northampton) topped the list with 34 memos, while Sen. Sharif Street (D-Philadelphia) was next at 23.

Some titles of memos that caught our eye include:

State House

• Click to Cancel and Consumer Protections for Recurring Subscriptions (Ciresi)
• Establishing a Recall Process for County & Municipal Offices (D’Orsie)
• Banning Running For Two Offices at the Same Time (Diamond)
• Change Swearing-In Day to December 1 (Diamond)
• Corporate New Income Tax Reduction (Kephart)
• Ending Automatic Pay Raises for Legislators, Judges, and Executive Officials (Kephart)
• Legalizing and Regulating Adult-Use Cannabis (Krajewski and Frankel)
• Harassment of a Sports Official (Kulik)
• Net Operating Loss for Small Businesses (Kutz)
• Voter ID Constitutional Amendment (Kutz and Ecker)
• Ending Taxpayer-Funded Subsidies for the Film Industry (Leadbeter)
• Protecting Job Opportunities for U.S. Citizens: Opposing the Hiring of Undocumented Workers at State Universities (Leadbeter)
• Additional Sports Wagering Markets (Neilson)
• Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Hiring Process (Neilson)
• Health Insurance Coverage to Age 26 (Pashinski)
• Disclosure of Artificially Intelligent Generated Content (Pielli)
• Suspend Mail In Voting for 3 Years (Roae)
• Charter School Funding (Tomlinson)
• Mandating Cursive Handwriting (Watro)
• Prohibit Non-Compete Agreements for Broadcast Workers (Waxman)

State Senate

• Addressing Pennsylvania’s Long-Term Care Workforce Crisis (Argall and Brooks)
• Constitutional Amendment Regarding the Statute of Limitations and Childhood Sexual Abuse (Baker)
• Film Industry Tax Credit (Bartolotta)
• Taxpayer Protection Act – Constitutional Amendment (Bartolotta)
• Redistricting Reform – Establishing an Independent Commission (Boscola)
• Election Day Registration (Boscola)
• Pennsylvania Daylight Protection Act, Adopting Atlantic Standard Time (Boscola)
• Establishing the Pennsylvania Department of Energy (Boscola)
• Campaign Finance Reform (Costa)
• Alyssa’s Law (Haywood and Pennycuick)
• Repealing Sunday Hunting Prohibition in Pennsylvania (Laughlin)
• Defunding Antisemitism on Pa. University Campuses (Mastriano and Aument)
• Protecting Our Elections from Artificial Intelligence Interference (Pennycuick, Gebhard and Kane)
• Making the Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth a Cabinet Level Position (Phillips-Hill and Pennycuick)
• Decriminalization of Cannabis in Pennsylvania (Street and Bartolotta)
• Improved Access to Wine and Beer at Grocery Stores (J. Ward)