Tag: 2025-26 Sponsorship Memos

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)

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)
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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)

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)
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