Senator Scott Martin (R-13), along with Senators Kristen Phillips-Hill (R-28), Pat Stefano (R-32) and Judy Ward (R-30) recently introduced a constitutional amendment designed to limit overreach from the executive branch after emergency declarations expire.   [Read More]

Selected by the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee to conduct the election investigation, Envoy Sage, LLC will host a media call Tuesday at 1:00 p.m.  The call line will be open at 12:45 p.m. to register   [Read More]

Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman (R-Bellefonte) and Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward (R-Westmoreland) issued the following statement today after a Commonwealth Court ruling paved the way for Governor Wolf’s school mask mandate to potentially end December 4:   [Read More]

Senator Camera Bartolotta’s (R-46) bill to allow farmers to use a Class A, B or C driver’s license when operating farm vehicles with a combined weight of more than 26,000 pounds on roadways was signed into law today.   [Read More]

Sen. Wayne Langerholc, Jr. (R-37), Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee, offered the following statement on the House of Representative’s passage of Senate Bill 382:   [Read More]

Testimony received during this week’s hearing of the Senate State Government Committee highlighted many of the difficulties and controversies surrounding the process of congressional redistricting, according to Senator David G. Argall (R-Berks/Schuylkill), who chaired the hearing.   [Read More]

The State Senate (November 10) gave final approval of legislation aimed at interjecting greater efficiency and transparency into Pennsylvania’s Campaign Finance reporting system, according to Senate Appropriations Chairman Pat Browne (R-Lehigh), who authored the bill.   [Read More]

Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman (R-Bellefonte) and Representative Jesse Topper (R-Bedford) criticized the Wolf Administration today for its latest legal maneuver to lock parents out of the decision-making process on school mask mandates.   [Read More]

Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman (R-Bellefonte) and Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward (R-Westmoreland) applauded a Commonwealth Court ruling today that voids the Acting Secretary of Health’s school mask mandate, which returns health and safety decisions to parents and school boards:   [Read More]

Legislation sponsored by State Senator John Yudichak (I-Luzerne/Carbon) that would create a $5 million guaranteed loan program for veteran-owned businesses passed the Senate by a unanimous vote today.   [Read More]

he Senate Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee today approved legislation, sponsored by Sen. Gene Yaw (R-23), who chairs the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, seeking to alter the membership of the Center’s board of directors, according to Committee Chairman Sen. Elder Vogel (R-47).   [Read More]