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SB 639An Act amending Title 15 (Corporations and Unincorporated Associations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in corporate powers, duties and safeguards, further providing for additional powers of certain public utility corporations.

Congress · introduced 2025-04-14

Latest action: Referred to CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, April 14, 2025

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  1. · senate Referred to CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, April 14, 2025

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Bill text

Printer's No. 0650 · 1,502 characters · source document

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PRINTER'S NO.    650

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                        SENATE BILL
                        No. 639
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY ARGALL AND GEBHARD, APRIL 14, 2025

     REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE,
        APRIL 14, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 15 (Corporations and Unincorporated Associations)
 2      of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in corporate
 3      powers, duties and safeguards, further providing for
 4      additional powers of certain public utility corporations.
 5      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 6   hereby enacts as follows:
 7      Section 1.    Section 1511 of Title 15 of the Pennsylvania
 8   Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
 9   § 1511.    Additional powers of certain public utility
10                corporations.
11      * * *
12      (b.1)    Single customer or prospective customer.--The powers
13   conferred by subsection (a) may be exercised to condemn property
14   necessary to provide service to a single customer or prospective
15   customer of a public utility or railroad if the service provided
16   is consistent with one or more of the principal purposes
17   specified in subsection (a).
18      * * *
19      Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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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
1David G. Argall (R, state_upper PA-29)sponsor05
2Chris Gebhard (R, state_upper PA-48)cosponsor01

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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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  1. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania Senate Consumer Protection And Professional Licensure Committee · pa-leg

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