Issues

As the Pennsylvania General Assembly debates legislation and policy during the current 2007-2008 Legislative Session, it is very helpful to receive feedback from my constituents. By knowing your perspective on certain bills and issues, I believe that it helps me to better represent the 37th Senatorial District.

Below, I have provided a listing of the legislation of which I am the prime sponsor. The table lists the bill number in the left hand column and a plain English summary on the right. By clicking below on any of the bills I have sponsored, you will be taken to the Commonwealth's Legislative Data Processing website. While there you can find the full text of these bills, bill history, and other information by entering the bill number in the search box. In addition, you can find any other legislation that has been introduced during this session or previous sessions by

Please feel free to take some time and browse the list and let me know what you think. As I mentioned earlier, feedback from my constituents is very helpful as I evaluate and consider what legislation is best for the 37th District. I encourage you to pass along your thoughts and comments concerning these bills or any state-related issues by clicking HERE.

BILLS SPONSORED BY SENATOR JOHN PIPPY
- 2007-2008 LEGISLATIVE SESSION -

Senate Bill 176 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 176 authorizes municipalities to use public money to repair and maintain private sewer lines in order to keep the community healthy and sanitary. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 17 7 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 177 proposes a personal income tax credit equal to the lesser of 50% of any premiums paid or $100 per year for a long-term care insurance policy. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 17 8 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 178 allows businesses to use losses incurred as a result of a federally-declared disaster that have not been reimbursed through insurance to offset any gains in income for tax purposes. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 17 9 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 179 provides an increase in the income limit for Allegheny County’s Senior Citizen Property Tax Relief program from $30,000 to $31,500, counting half of any Social Security income. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 180 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 180 allows the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to arrange Honor Guard burial details at the National Cemetery of the Alleghenies in Washington County. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 181 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 181 increases the offense of trading, bartering, buying, selling, or dealing in infant children from a first degree misdemeanor to a second degree felony. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 182 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 182 proposes the inclusion of members of the armed services of the U.S. and members of the PA National Guard, their spouses, and their children in the grading uses for crimes against other officers and public servants assaulted while on duty. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 183 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 183 changes the grade of the offense of impersonating a law enforcement officer from a second degree misdemeanor to a third degree felony. It also creates the offense of impersonating military personnel. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 184 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 184 requires any driver involved in an accident where death or life-threatening injury occurs to submit to drug/alcohol testing. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 185 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 185 allows employees of municipal police departments who are under 21 to possess, attempt to purchase, or transport alcohol in the course of duty. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 247 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 247 authorizes that voters be presented with a paper ballot that can be verified and/or corrected by them before a final vote is preserved. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 248 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 248 reduces the number of members in the House and Senate by 20% following the 2010 Census and redistricting. It also provides for a 20% reduction in the budgets of both chambers. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 465 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 465 requires lodging establishments to conduct criminal background checks on all employees who may have access to guest room keys. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 672 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 672 requires all buildings designed, constructed, or renovated with the assistance of state funding to comply with specific environmental and energy standards. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 738 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 738 prohibits public and private entities or individuals from keeping records or databases of firearms or of firearm owners except in specific cases relating to law enforcement, insurance, gun club membership, or business transactions by license firearm dealers. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 739 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 739 allows higher education institutions to charge active military personnel in-state tuition rates when they are taking courses over the internet or through other electronic means. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 1161 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 1161 expands the Educational Improvement Tax Credit program to allow Approved Private Schools (that provide special education services to public schools) and the Chartered Schools for the Deaf and Blind to receive funding for innovative educational programming. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 1225 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 1225 facilitates municipal cooperation in the event of a situation that requires emergency personnel from multiple municipalities to respond. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 1232 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 1232 establishes universal insurance reimbursement rates for eye care providers and allows providers to use the optical laboratory of their choice. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 1281 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 1281 allows a child whose parents have been called or ordered to active military duty to enroll in a Pennsylvania Cyber School. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 1302 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 1302 amends the PA Election Code allowing for the maximum ratio of compensation for district election officers. - (Full Text) (Summary coming soon)
Senate Bill 1 400 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 1400 amends the Housing Finance Agency Law establishing the PA Housing Affordability and Rehabilitation Enhancement Program. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 1 402 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 1402 amends the Housing Finance Law by appropriating $10,000,000 to the PA Housing Finance Agency. Any funds not expended will be transferred to the PA Housing Affordability and Rehabilitation Enhancement Program. - (Full Text) (Summary)
Senate Bill 1412 - Bill History -	Senate Bill 1412 amends the Keystone Opportunity Zone Acts defining “unoccupied parcel”, providing extensions for unoccupied parcels, for substitution of parcels outside a subzone; for payments; prohibiting illegal alien labor in zones; and further providing for sales and use tax, for corporate income net tax, and for local earned income net profits taxes and business privilege taxes. - (Full Text) (Summary)

Please contact any of Senator Pippy's offices for more information.

Archived Legislative Information from Past Sessions

2005-2006 Legislative Session:
Legislation Sponsored by Senator John Pippy
Legislation Co-Sponsored by Senator John Pippy
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All legislation passed into law during the 2005-2006 Legislative Session

Issues

BILLS SPONSORED BY SENATOR JOHN PIPPY - 2007-2008 LEGISLATIVE SESSION -

BILLS SPONSORED BY SENATOR JOHN PIPPY
- 2007-2008 LEGISLATIVE SESSION -