HB 366 — An Act amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in alternative form of regulation of telecommunications services, providing for compensation to volunteer fire companies for outages of 911 systems.
Congress · introduced 2025-01-27
Latest action: — Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, Jan. 27, 2025
Sponsors
- Martin T. Causer (R, PA-67) — sponsor · 2025-01-27
- Jacob D. Banta (R, PA-4) — cosponsor · 2025-01-27
- Tina Pickett (R, PA-110) — cosponsor · 2025-01-27
- Rob W. Kauffman (R, PA-89) — cosponsor · 2025-01-27
- Brenda M. Pugh (R, PA-120) — cosponsor · 2025-01-27
Action timeline
- · house — Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, Jan. 27, 2025
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Bill text
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PRINTER'S NO. 322
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 366
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY CAUSER, BANTA, PICKETT AND KAUFFMAN,
JANUARY 27, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS, JANUARY 27, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, in alternative form of regulation of
3 telecommunications services, providing for compensation to
4 volunteer fire companies for outages of 911 systems.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Title 66 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 3020. Compensation to volunteer fire companies for outages of
10 911 systems.
11 (a) Compensation.--A local exchange telecommunications
12 company with a system failure that results in an outage of a 911
13 system shall compensate a volunteer fire company that is
14 required to physically maintain a volunteer firefighter at the
15 company's fire station as a result of the outage. The
16 compensation rate under this subsection shall be $1,000 for each
17 hour a volunteer fire company is required to physically maintain
18 a volunteer firefighter at the company's fire station as a
1 result of the outage.
2 (b) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
3 words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
4 subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
5 "911 system." As defined in 35 Pa.C.S. § 5302 (relating to
6 definitions).
7 "Volunteer fire company." As defined in 35 Pa.C.S. § 7802
8 (relating to definitions).
9 "Volunteer firefighter." As defined in 35 Pa.C.S. § 7412
10 (relating to definitions).
11 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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| date | type | to | amount | role | source |
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| — | referred_to_committee | Pennsylvania House Veterans Affairs And Emergency Preparedness Committee | — | pa-leg |
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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.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin T. Causer (R, state_lower PA-67) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Brenda M. Pugh (R, state_lower PA-120) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Jacob D. Banta (R, state_lower PA-4) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Rob W. Kauffman (R, state_lower PA-89) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Tina Pickett (R, state_lower PA-110) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
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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
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