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HB 1909An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in assault, further providing for the offenses of simple assault, of recklessly endangering another person, of terroristic threats, of harassment and of stalking; in kidnapping, further providing for the offenses of unlawful restraint, of false imprisonment and of criminal coercion; in sexual offenses, further providing for the offense of indecent assault; and, in riot, disorderly conduct and related offenses, further providing for the offense of disorderly conduct.

Congress · introduced 2025-09-30

Latest action: Referred to JUDICIARY, Feb. 13, 2026

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · house Referred to JUDICIARY, Sept. 30, 2025
  2. · house Reported as amended, Nov. 17, 2025
  3. · house First consideration, Nov. 17, 2025
  4. · house Laid on the table, Nov. 17, 2025
  5. · house Removed from table, Jan. 6, 2026
  6. · house Second consideration, Jan. 28, 2026
  7. · house Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS, Jan. 28, 2026
  8. · house Re-reported as committed, Feb. 2, 2026
  9. · house Third consideration and final passage, Feb. 2, 2026 (104-94)
  10. · house (Remarks see House Journal Page ), Feb. 2, 2026
  11. · senate In the Senate
  12. · senate Referred to JUDICIARY, Feb. 13, 2026

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Bill text

Printer's No. 2387 · 1,421 characters · source document

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PRINTER'S NO.   2387

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 1909
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY DAVIDSON, SEPTEMBER 30, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2025


                                     AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
 2      Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in sentencing, providing
 3      for sentencing for offenses involving protection from abuse
 4      violations.
 5      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 6   hereby enacts as follows:
 7      Section 1.    Title 42 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 8   Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
 9   § 9720.9.   Sentencing for offenses involving protection from
10               abuse violations.
11      In addition to any minimum term of imprisonment authorized or
12   established by law, an individual who commits a criminal offense
13   during the performance of a violation of an offense under 23
14   Pa.C.S. § 6114 (relating to contempt for violation of order or
15   agreement) shall have the criminal offense graded one degree
16   higher up to and including a felony of the third degree.
17      Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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referred_to_committeePennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committeepa-leg
referred_to_committeePennsylvania House Appropriations Committeepa-leg
referred_to_committeePennsylvania House Judiciary Committeepa-leg

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Committees

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Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Nathan Davidson (D, state_lower PA-103)sponsor05
2Benjamin V. Sanchez (D, state_lower PA-153)cosponsor01
3Carol Hill-Evans (D, state_lower PA-95)cosponsor01
4Dan K. Williams (D, state_lower PA-74)cosponsor01
5Emily Kinkead (D, state_lower PA-20)cosponsor01
6Gina H. Curry (D, state_lower PA-164)cosponsor01
7Joe Ciresi (D, state_lower PA-146)cosponsor01
8Joseph C. Hohenstein (D, state_lower PA-177)cosponsor01
9Justin C. Fleming (D, state_lower PA-105)cosponsor01
10Kristine C. Howard (D, state_lower PA-167)cosponsor01
11La'Tasha D. Mayes (D, state_lower PA-24)cosponsor01
12Lisa A. Borowski (D, state_lower PA-168)cosponsor01
13Liz Hanbidge (D, state_lower PA-61)cosponsor01
14Manuel Guzman (D, state_lower PA-127)cosponsor01
15Melissa Cerrato (D, state_lower PA-151)cosponsor01
16Nancy Guenst (D, state_lower PA-152)cosponsor01
17Nikki Rivera (D, state_lower PA-96)cosponsor01
18Scott Conklin (D, state_lower PA-77)cosponsor01
19Steven R. Malagari (D, state_lower PA-53)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

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  1. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee · pa-leg
  2. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee · pa-leg
  3. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee · pa-leg

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