Legislation to Watch in the Next Session of the Pennsylvania House

Pennsylvania lawmakers have been busy preparing memos pitching new legislation for the 2023–2024 session. Before laws are made and before a bill is written, legislative ideas start as a memo offering a rationale for the proposed legislation.
A bill based on the memo is presented at the committee level and rewritten if committee discussion calls for edits. This is a good time for the public to weigh in on new laws, but the public often does not know about proposed legislation until it is presented on the full chamber floor, if it gets that far.
Sometimes the same bills are brought forth every session and never make it through the process, or even out of committee. Both House and Senate members submit memos, but because there are enough to fill a thick book, this article looks only at some House proposals, because bills that may have been stopped by majority leadership in the past may move forward this session….}

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