Pennsylvania House Bill 301
Session 2023-2024
An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in preliminary provisions, further providing for special provisions applicable to limited school years; in duties and powers of board of school directors, further providing for additional schools and departments; in grounds and buildings, further providing for limitation on new applications for Department of Education approval of public school building projects; in school directors' associations and county boards of school directors, further providing for powers and duties; in intermediate units, further providing for visual services and for school safety and security enhancements; in certification of teachers, further providing for substitute teaching permit for prospective teachers and for locally issued temporary certification for substitute teachers, repealing provisions relating to permit for classroom monitors and providing for permit for classroom monitors; providing for the Educator Pipeline Support Grant Program; in pupils and attendance, further providing for compulsory education of physical defectives, for school lunch and breakfast reimbursement, for dependent children, for actual cost of tuition and maintenance of certain exceptional children in the four chartered schools for education of the deaf and the blind, for payment of cost of tuition and maintenance of certain exceptional children, for transfer of funds for transferal programs and for children under six with defective hearing and parent or guardian advised of schools, etc.; in safe schools, further providing for definitions and for Office for Safe Schools, repealing provisions relating to regulations and to reporting, further providing for policy relating to bullying and for maintenance of records and repealing provisions relating to Safe Schools Advocate in School Districts of the First Class, to standing, to enforcement and to construction of article and other laws; in school safety and security, further providing for definitions and for school safety and security committee, providing for duties of committee, further providing for School Safety and Security Grant Program, providing for Targeted School Safety Grants for Nonpublic Schools and School Entities Program, for standardized protocols, for county safe schools' collaborative and for school mental health grants for 2023-2024 school year, further providing for school safety and security coordinator training and providing for reporting and memorandum of understanding, for safe schools advocate in school districts of the first class and for enforcement; in school security, further providing for definitions, for school police officers, for annual report and for school security guards; in character education program, further providing for character education program; in community colleges, further providing for financial program and reimbursement of payments; in educational tax credits, further providing for definitions, for qualification and application by organizations and for limitations; in school districts of the first class, further providing for qualifications of principals and teachers; in funding for public libraries, providing for State aid for fiscal year 2023-2024; in reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for definitions and for payments on account of pupils enrolled in career and technical curriculums, for payments on account of courses for exceptional children, for payments to intermediate units, for assistance to school districts declared to be in financial recovery status or identified for financial watch status, for payments, for payments on account of pupil transportation, for Ready-to-Learn Block Grant and for payment of required contribution for public school employees' Social Security; in construction and renovation of buildings by school entities, further providing for applicability; providing for School Environmental Repairs Program; and making an editorial change.
Became Law
Signed by Governor on Dec 13, 2023
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Bill Number
301
State
Pennsylvania
Session
2023-2024
Patrick J. Harkins
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Motion Text
HB 301 PN 2311, CONCURRENCE
House Roll Call Votes
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BANTA
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BELLMON
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BOROWSKI
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BROWN, M.
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C FREYTIZ
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COOPER
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CURRY
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EVANS
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FLEMING
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FLICK
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GREEN
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JONES, M.
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JONES, T.
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KRUPA
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KUTZ
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MACKENZIE, M.
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MAYES
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POWELL
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RYNCAVAGE
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SCHLEGEL
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STENDER
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WILLIAMS, C.
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Summary
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Printer's No. 2326
Printer's No. 2311
Printer's No. 1035
Printer's No. 0954
Printer's No. 0256
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12/13/2023
House
Act No. 33 of 2023
12/13/2023
House
Approved by the Governor
12/13/2023
House
Presented to the Governor
12/13/2023
House
Signed in Senate
12/13/2023
House
Signed in House
12/13/2023
House
House concurred in Senate amendments to House amendments, as amended by the Senate
12/13/2023
House
Re-reported on concurrence, as committed
12/13/2023
House
Referred to RULES
12/13/2023
Senate
Senate concurred in House amendments to Senate amendments, as amended by the Senate
12/13/2023
Senate
PN 2311 Re-reported on concurrence, as amended with Prior Printer's No. 2311
12/11/2023
Senate
Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS
11/15/2023
House
House concurred in Senate amendments, as amended by the House
11/15/2023
House
Re-reported on concurrence, as amended
11/15/2023
House
PN 2326 Amended in House Committee on RULES
11/15/2023
House
Referred to RULES
11/15/2023
Senate
Third consideration and final passage
11/14/2023
Senate
PN 2311 Re-reported as amended
06/07/2023
Senate
Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS
06/07/2023
Senate
Second consideration
06/06/2023
Senate
First consideration
06/06/2023
Senate
Reported as committed
05/03/2023
Senate
Referred to EDUCATION
04/26/2023
House
Third consideration and final passage
04/26/2023
House
Re-reported as committed
04/25/2023
House
Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS
04/25/2023
House
PN 1035 Second consideration, with amendments
04/24/2023
House
Removed from table
04/21/2023
House
Laid on the table
04/21/2023
House
First consideration
04/21/2023
House
PN 0954 Reported as amended
03/10/2023
House
PN 0256 Referred to EDUCATION
Sources
PA Legislature
Record Created
Mar 11, 2023 5:26:12 AM
Record Updated
Dec 14, 2023 8:02:42 PM