SB 688 — An Act amending Title 16 (Counties) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in county commissioners and chief clerks, providing for voting by county commissioner on certain appointments.

Congress · introduced 2025-04-28

Latest action: — Referred to LOCAL GOVERNMENT, April 28, 2025

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2025-04-28 · senate — Referred to LOCAL GOVERNMENT, April 28, 2025

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Printer's No. 0667 · 2,326 characters · source document

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PRINTER'S NO.   667

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                        SENATE BILL
                        No. 688
                                                Session of
                                                  2025

     INTRODUCED BY STEFANO AND BARTOLOTTA, APRIL 28, 2025

     REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, APRIL 28, 2025


                                     AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 16 (Counties) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 2      Statutes, in county commissioners and chief clerks, providing
 3      for voting by county commissioner on certain appointments.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.     Title 16 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 7   Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
 8   § 12514.    Voting by county commissioner on certain appointments.
 9      (a)     Prohibition.--A county commissioner may not vote on the
10   appointment of a member of a board, authority or similar body
11   established to improve the economic development of the county if
12   a member of the immediate family of the county commissioner is
13   an executive-level employee of the board, authority or similar
14   body or is employed by an entity that receives a grant, loan or
15   contract from the board, authority or similar body.
16      (b)     Abstention.--A county commissioner under subsection (a)
17   shall refrain from voting in accordance with 65 Pa.C.S. §
18   1103(j) (relating to restricted activities).
19      (c)     Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
 1   words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
 2   subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
 3      "Executive-level employee."   An employee of a board,
 4   authority or similar body established by the county
 5   commissioners with discretionary powers that may affect the
 6   outcome of a decision in relation to a private corporation or
 7   business or an employee who by virtue of the employee's job
 8   function could influence the outcome of a decision.
 9      "Immediate family."   A parent, spouse, child, brother or
10   sister.
11      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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date	type	to	amount	role	source
—	referred_to_committee	Pennsylvania Senate Local Government Committee	—		pa-leg

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Committees

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Pennsylvania Senate Local Government Committee

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	Patrick J. Stefano (R, state_upper PA-32)	sponsor	0	—	5
2	Camera Bartolotta (R, state_upper PA-46)	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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2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania Senate Local Government Committee · pa-leg

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