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SB 327 — An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in the State System of Higher Education, further providing for definitions and for powers and duties of councils of trustees. Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in employees, further providing for automatic certification.

Congress · introduced 2025-02-28

Latest action: — Act No. 5 of 2026, Feb. 11, 2026

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · senate — Referred to LAW AND JUSTICE, Feb. 28, 2025
  2. · senate — Reported as committed, May 6, 2025
  3. · senate — First consideration, May 6, 2025
  4. · senate — Second consideration, May 7, 2025
  5. · senate — Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS, May 7, 2025
  6. · senate — Re-reported as committed, May 12, 2025
  7. · senate — Third consideration and final passage, May 12, 2025 (50-0)
  8. · house — In the House
  9. · house — Referred to JUDICIARY, May 13, 2025
  10. · house — Reported as committed, June 17, 2025
  11. · house — First consideration, June 17, 2025
  12. · house — Laid on the table, June 17, 2025
  13. · house — Removed from table, Dec. 16, 2025
  14. · house — Second consideration, with amendments, Dec. 17, 2025
  15. · house — Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS, Dec. 17, 2025
  16. · house — (Remarks see House Journal Page ), Dec. 17, 2025
  17. · house — Re-reported as committed, Jan. 28, 2026
  18. · house — Third consideration and final passage, Jan. 28, 2026 (199-0)
  19. · house — (Remarks see House Journal Page ....), Jan. 28, 2026
  20. · senate — In the Senate
  21. · senate — Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, Feb. 2, 2026
  22. · senate — Re-reported on concurrence, as committed, Feb. 2, 2026
  23. · senate — Senate concurred in House amendments, Feb. 2, 2026 (49-0)
  24. · senate — Signed in Senate, Feb. 2, 2026
  25. · house — Signed in House, Feb. 3, 2026
  26. — Presented to the Governor, Feb. 3, 2026
  27. — Approved by the Governor, Feb. 11, 2026
  28. — Act No. 5 of 2026, Feb. 11, 2026

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Bill text

Printer's No. 0297 · 2,208 characters · source document

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PRINTER'S NO.    297

                      THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         SENATE BILL
                         No. 327
                                                 Session of
                                                   2025

     INTRODUCED BY GEBHARD, BARTOLOTTA, FONTANA, PENNYCUICK, CULVER,
        KANE, STEFANO AND DUSH, FEBRUARY 28, 2025

     REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, FEBRUARY 28, 2025


                                      AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
 2      Consolidated Statutes, in employees, further providing for
 3      automatic certification.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.     Section 2168 of Title 53 of the Pennsylvania
 7   Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
 8   § 2168.    Automatic certification.
 9      * * *
10      (f)    Fort Indiantown Gap police officer certification.--An
11   installation police officer at Fort Indiantown Gap under 51
12   Pa.C.S. § 711 (relating to installation of police officers for
13   Fort Indiantown Gap and other designated Commonwealth military
14   installations and facilities) shall be eligible to maintain
15   certification if the installation police officer meets the
16   following:
17             (1)   Satisfactorily completed the basic educational and
18      training requirements established under this subchapter.
 1        (2)   Satisfactorily completed the minimum number of in-
 2    service training hours established by the commission and
 3    required to maintain certification.
 4        (3)   Either:
 5              (i)    has an active certification on or after the
 6        effective date of this subsection; or
 7              (ii)    was previously certified as a police officer by
 8        the commission, which certification lapsed within the
 9        last two years, and has been employed, with no lapse in
10        service, as an installation police officer at Fort
11        Indiantown Gap.
12    Section 2.      This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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Outbound (5)

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—referred_to_committeePennsylvania Senate Rules And Executive Nominations Committee—pa-leg
—referred_to_committeePennsylvania House Appropriations Committee—pa-leg
—referred_to_committeePennsylvania House Judiciary Committee—pa-leg
—referred_to_committeePennsylvania Senate Appropriations Committee—pa-leg
—referred_to_committeePennsylvania Senate Law And Justice Committee—pa-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
1Chris Gebhard (R, state_upper PA-48)sponsor0—5
2Camera Bartolotta (R, state_upper PA-46)cosponsor0—1
3Cris Dush (R, state_upper PA-25)cosponsor0—1
4Devlin J. Robinson (R, state_upper PA-37)cosponsor0—1
5John I. Kane (D, state_upper PA-9)cosponsor0—1
6Lynda Schlegel Culver (R, state_upper PA-27)cosponsor0—1
7Patrick J. Stefano (R, state_upper PA-32)cosponsor0—1
8Tracy Pennycuick (R, state_upper PA-24)cosponsor0—1
9Wayne D. Fontana (D, state_upper PA-42)cosponsor0—1

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 Rules And Executive Nominations 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
  4. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania Senate Appropriations Committee · pa-leg
  5. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania Senate Law And Justice Committee · pa-leg

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