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Bill voted on Third Consideration

SB 998 (BROWN) Enacts the Nurse Education Capacity Expansion Grant Program Act to establish the Nurse Education Capacity Expansion Grant Program within DCED. Allows eligible nursing education programs to apply for up to $500,000 for use in expanding capacity of their accredited nursing education programs in order to increase the number of qualified students. PASSED 43-4.

Bill amended on Third Consideration

HB 1286 (YOUNG) Amends the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline Notification Act to require public lodging establishments and third-party listing platforms ensure public lodging employees and certain public lodging contract workers receive human trafficking awareness training. Requires rental operators to attest to third-party listing platforms that they have completed the required training. Specifies required components of training and requires the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) to approve free online training courses or existing programs that meet the training requirements. Provides for documentation training and record retention. Establishes administrative and criminal penalties. OVER AS AMENDED.

A02965 (COLLETT) Requires public lodging owners, operators, or managers and third-party contractors to make training records available to the Department of Labor and Industry. Makes it an affirmative defense for a third-party listing platform to reasonably rely on representation by a rental operator that they completed required training. ADOPTED 47-0.

Bill amended on Second Consideration

HB 993 (INGLIS) Amends Title 51 (Military Affairs) to provide for a consolidated annual report from the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA). Requires DMVA to develop and design an official veteran-owned business logotype to be used by a veteran-owned business. Directs the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED), in consultation with DMVA, to employ a veteran-owned business coordinator to assist veterans who seek to or currently own or operate a business. Imposes a penalty on individuals who fraudulently holds themselves out to be veterans for the purpose of using the logotype. OVER AS AMENDED.

A02986 (MASTRIANO) Removes the requirement for DMVA to consult with DCED in regards to the veteran-owned business logotype. AGREED TO.

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Bills voted on Third Consideration

SB 323 (ARGALL) Amends Title 64 (Public Authorities and Quasi-Public Corporations) by establishing the independent Keystone National Finance Authority to finance projects in the United States by issuing conduit bonds. Establishes a board to govern the authority and hire or contract a qualified administrator to operate the authority. Requires the authority to pay the Commonwealth money generated annually after covering all its operating costs, including administrator payments and setting aside reasonable reserves as determined by the board. PASSED 40-8.

HB 797 (BENHAM) Amends the Second Class City Fireman Relief Law to allow surviving spouses of deceased City of Pittsburgh firefighters to continue to receive pension survivor benefits upon remarriage. PASSED 48-0.

Executive Nominations

Animal Health and Diagnostic Commission, Amanda M. Butterfield CONFIRMED 48-0.
Animal Health and Diagnostic Commission, Meghann K. Pierdon CONFIRMED 48-0.
Animal Health and Diagnostic Commission, James A. Shirk CONFIRMED 48-0.
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, John E. Mahn, Jr CONFIRMED 48-0.

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Bills voted on Third Consideration

SB 1293 (J. WARD) Enacts the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act to prohibit students of the male sex from participating in athletic teams or sports that are designated for females, women or girls. Requires all interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, club athletic teams or sports sponsored by or competing against a public school or public institution of higher education, to be designated either male, men or boys; female, women or girls; or coed or mixed. PASSED 30-17.

HB 1251 (CURRY) Amends the Physical Therapy Practice Act to permit a midwife to refer a patient to a physical therapist for treatment of a condition that is within the midwifery scope of practice. PASSED 45-2.

HB 2163 (MADDEN) Amends the Dental Law to extend the amount of time from less than 20 days to one year that a dentist licensed in another state or country can practice without a license in Pennsylvania for continuing education purposes while under the direct supervision of a licensed Pennsylvania dentist at a dental school. Allows an individual working under a restricted faculty license to teach in a clinical facility owned and operated by a dental school or affiliated academic health care center when the clinical facility or affiliated academic health care center is not operated for the profit of the dental school or any affiliated third party. Expands the criteria for receiving a restricted faculty license to include the completion of advanced education in general dentistry or general practice residency, or the completion of training in a
dental specialty or in advanced clinical education from an international program. Allows a restricted faculty licensee to practice at facilities owned or operated by a dental school, an affiliated academic health center, or a dental school-owned faculty practice. PASSED 43-4.

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