Pennsylvania State Senator

Patrick Stefano 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 6)

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Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB255

Introduced
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Engrossed
5/5/25  
Refer
5/6/25  
Refer
6/25/25  
Report Pass
6/26/25  
Enrolled
6/30/25  
Chaptered
6/30/25  
In sentencing, further providing for sexual offenses and tier system.
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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB349

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Refer
5/5/25  
Report Pass
5/5/25  
Engrossed
5/6/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
In environmental protection, providing for decommissioning of solar energy facilities.
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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB315

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Refer
3/26/25  
Report Pass
4/1/25  
Engrossed
4/2/25  
Refer
4/3/25  
Refer
6/25/25  
Report Pass
10/8/25  
Refer
10/20/25  
Report Pass
11/11/25  
Refer
11/12/25  
Report Pass
11/12/25  
Enrolled
11/12/25  
Chaptered
11/12/25  
An act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An act relating to the public school system, including certain provisions applicable as well to private and parochial schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the laws relating thereto," in preliminary provisions, further providing for Special Education Funding Commission and for minimum number of days or hours; in duties and powers of boards of school directors, providing for admission fees for school-sponsored activities; in intermediate units, further providing for staff; in certification of teachers, further providing for certificates qualifying persons to teach and for instructional certificate grade spans and age levels and duties of department, providing for instructional certificate grade spans and age levels and for State certificate fee reduction, further providing for standard employment application, for career and technical instructional certificate, for program of continuing professional and paraprofessional education and for postbaccalaureate certification, providing for assessment of basic skills, further providing for professional educator discipline fee and providing for career and technical administrative director certification flexibility; in pupils and attendance, further providing for attendance policy at charter, regional charter and cyber charter schools, for procedure when child is truant, for procedure by school when child habitually truant, for procedure upon filing of citation, for penalties for violating compulsory school attendance requirements and for study of truancy procedure, providing for department supports to prevent truancy and further providing for reports to Superintendent of Public Instruction and for exceptional children and education and training; in student supports, further providing for definitions; in school safety and security, further providing for definitions, for School Safety and Security Committee, for school safety and security assessment providers, for School Safety and Security Grant Program, for school safety and security coordinator and for school safety and security training, providing for school safety and mental health grants for 2025-2026 school year and further providing for reporting and memorandum of understanding; in school security, further providing for training, for school resource officers, for school security guards and for duties of commission; in Safe2Say Program, further providing for intent, for definitions, for Safe2Say Program and for annual report; in threat assessment, further providing for definitions, for threat assessment teams and for threat assessment guidelines, training and information materials; in Drug and Alcohol Recovery High School Program, further providing for scope of program and selection of students and for enrollment of students; in evidence-based reading instruction, further providing for definitions and providing for school entity duties related to evidence-based reading instruction, for school entity duties related to reading screening, for reading deficiency identification and parental notification, for reading intervention plans, for grant program, for funding, for reporting, for accountability and for construction; in high schools, further providing for attendance in other districts and providing for Free Application for Federal Student Aid; in interscholastic athletics accountability, further providing for council recommendations and standards; in charter schools, further providing for funding for cyber charter schools, for enrollment and notification and for enrollee wellness checks; in career and technical education, further providing for capital reserve fund for approved purchases of equipment and facility maintenance, for career and technical education equipment grants, for Cosmetology Training through Career and Technical Center Pilot Program and for Barber Training through Career and Technical Center Pilot Program; providing for Nursing Shortage Assistance Program; in community colleges, further providing for financial program and reimbursement of payments; in the State System of Higher Education, further providing for definitions and for Grow Pennsylvania Merit Scholarship Program; in educational tax credits, further providing for limitations; in higher education accountability and transparency, further providing for exit counseling; in miscellaneous provisions relating to institutions of higher education, repealing provisions relating to State-related university performance-based funding model, further providing for prohibition on scholarship displacement at public institutions of higher education and providing for cooperation and for State scholarship renewals; in institutions of higher education, further providing for powers and duties of State Board of Higher Education, for definitions, for Performance-based Funding Council and for public institution of higher education reporting, providing for State-related University Performance Fund, for performance-based funding formula and for public accountability and further providing for agency duties, for grant priority and for report; in Ready-to-Succeed Scholarship, further providing for agency; in funding for public libraries, providing for State aid for fiscal year 2025-2026; in reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for student-weighted basic education funding beginning with 2023-2024 school year, for extraordinary special education program expenses, for assistance to school districts declared to be in financial recovery status or identified for financial watch status and for Ready-to-Learn Block Grant; in construction and renovation of buildings by school entities, further providing for applicability; abrogating regulations; and making an editorial change.
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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB302

Introduced
2/25/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Refer
5/13/25  
Report Pass
6/2/25  
Engrossed
6/2/25  
Refer
6/3/25  
Refer
6/25/25  
Report Pass
6/26/25  
Enrolled
6/30/25  
Chaptered
6/30/25  
In protection from abuse, further providing for commencement of proceedings.
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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB347

Introduced
2/26/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Engrossed
4/1/25  
Further providing for prohibited acts and penalties.
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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB1014

Introduced
10/10/25  
Refer
10/10/25  
Refer
2/2/26  
Report Pass
2/3/26  
Engrossed
2/3/26  
Refer
2/4/26  
Report Pass
4/28/26  
In student supports, providing for bell-to-bell mobile device policy.
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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB1070

Introduced
10/17/25  
Refer
10/17/25  
Refer
10/27/25  
Report Pass
11/17/25  
Engrossed
12/8/25  
In unconventional gas well fee, further providing for Statewide initiatives.
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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB1068

Introduced
10/17/25  
Refer
10/17/25  
Refer
10/21/25  
Report Pass
10/22/25  
Engrossed
10/22/25  
Providing for the abrogation of regulations relating to the CO2 Budget Trading Program.
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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB1053

Introduced
10/15/25  
Refer
10/15/25  
Refer
3/23/26  
Report Pass
3/23/26  
Engrossed
3/24/26  
Refer
3/24/26  
In additional coverages, further providing for the definition of "employe."
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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB1058

Introduced
10/16/25  
Refer
10/16/25  
Refer
10/27/25  
Report Pass
11/17/25  
Engrossed
11/18/25  
In liquid fuels and fuels tax, further providing for definitions.
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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB1293

Introduced
4/17/26  
Refer
4/17/26  
Engrossed
4/22/26  
Providing for sport activities in public institutions of higher education and public school entities to be expressly designated male, female or coed; and creating causes of action for harm suffered by designation.
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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB1298

Introduced
4/17/26  
Refer
4/17/26  
Refer
4/21/26  
Report Pass
5/4/26  
Engrossed
5/6/26  
In inspection of vehicles, further providing for prohibition on expenditures for emission inspection program.
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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB1211

Introduced
3/12/26  
Refer
3/12/26  
Refer
3/18/26  
Report Pass
3/23/26  
Engrossed
3/24/26  
In casualty insurance, further providing for coverage for biomarker testing.
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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB1284

Introduced
4/14/26  
Refer
4/14/26  
Engrossed
5/4/26  
In authorized disposition of offenders, further providing for sentence for murder, murder of unborn child and murder of law enforcement officer; and, in sentencing, further providing for sentences for offenses committed against law enforcement officer.
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Pennsylvania 2025-2026 Regular Session

Pennsylvania Senate Bill SB975

Introduced
8/25/25  
Refer
8/25/25  
Refer
10/8/25  
Report Pass
10/28/25  
Engrossed
12/8/25  
In powers and duties of elected officials, further providing for completion, filing and publication of auditor's report and financial statement; and, in accounts and finances, further providing for annual reports, publication, filing report with Department of Community and Economic Development and penalty.