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IssuesAs 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 and a plain English summary. 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, votes 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 using the bill search feature. 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
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Senate Bill 176 Full Text Summary |
Authorizes municipalities to use public money to repair and maintain private sewer lines in order to keep the community healthy and sanitary. |
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Senate Bill 177 Full Text Summary |
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. |
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Senate Bill 178 Full Text Summary |
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. |
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Senate Bill 179 Full Text Summary |
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. |
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Senate Bill 180 Full Text Summary |
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. |
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Senate Bill 181 Full Text Summary |
Increases the offense of trading, bartering, buying, selling, or dealing in infant children from a first degree misdemeanor to a second degree felony. |
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Senate Bill 182 Full Text Summary |
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. |
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Senate Bill 183 Full Text Summary |
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. |
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Senate Bill 184 Full Text Summary |
Requires any driver involved in an accident where death or life-threatening injury occurs to submit to drug/alcohol testing. |
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Senate Bill 185 Full Text Summary |
Allows employees of municipal police departments who are under 21 to possess, attempt to purchase, or transport alcohol in the course of duty. |
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Senate Bill 247 Full Text Summary |
Authorizes that voters be presented with a paper ballot that can be verified and/or corrected by them before a final vote is preserved. |
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Senate Bill 248 Full Text Summary |
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. |
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Senate Bill 465 Full Text Summary |
Requires lodging establishments to conduct criminal background checks on all employees who may have access to guest room keys. |
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Senate Bill 672 Full Text Summary |
Requires all buildings designed, constructed, or renovated with the assistance of state funding to comply with specific environmental and energy standards. |
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Senate Bill 738 Full Text Summary |
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. |
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Senate Bill 739 Full Text Summary |
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. |
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Senate Bill 1161 Full Text Summary |
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. |
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Senate Bill 1225 Full Text Summary |
Facilitates municipal cooperation in the event of a situation that requires emergency personnel from multiple municipalities to respond. |
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Senate Bill 1232 Full Text Summary |
Establishes universal insurance reimbursement rates for eye care providers and allows providers to use the optical laboratory of their choice. |
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Senate Bill 1281 Full Text Summary |
Allows a child whose parents have been called or ordered to active military duty to enroll in a Pennsylvania Cyber School. |
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Senate Bill 1302 Full Text |
Amends the PA Election Code allowing for the maximum ratio of compensation for district election officers. |
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Senate Bill 1400 Full Text Summary |
Amends the Housing Finance Agency Law establishing the PA Housing Affordability and Rehabilitation Enhancement Program. |
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Senate Bill 1402 Full Text Summary |
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. |
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Senate Bill 1412 Full Text Summary |
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. |
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