Senate Law & Justice Committee
PA General Assembly
Chair
Daniel Laughlin
Republican
Minority Chair
Wayne Fontana
Democratic
Vice Chair
Joseph Picozzi
Republican
Bills referred
40
Referrals
40
Roll calls
0
Members voting
0
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10 Aug 2026
Establishing the Jayanna Powell Hit-and-Run Direct Notification System Pilot Program in the city of the first class; requiring registration of motor vehicle repair facilities; and imposing penalties.
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17 Apr 2026
Further providing for definitions; and providing for medical marijuana exemption.
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13 Mar 2026
In licenses and regulations and liquor, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages, providing for Philadelphia 250 permits and further providing for special sporting event permits for public venue licensees; and, in distilleries, wineries, bonded warehouses, bailees for hire and transporters for hire, further providing for limited distilleries and distilleries.
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29 Dec 2025
Prohibiting the commandeering of the assets, personnel or operations of law enforcement agencies in this Commonwealth.
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15 Oct 2025
Providing for a full and independent investigation into a use of deadly force by a police officer.
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15 Oct 2025
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in licenses and regulations, liquor, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages, further providing for unlawful acts relative to liquor, alcohol and liquor licensees.
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3 Oct 2025
In distilleries, wineries, bonded warehouses, bailees for hire and transporters for hire, further providing for limited wineries.
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3 Oct 2025
Establishing a hate group database; and imposing powers and duties on the Attorney General.
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4 Sep 2025
In licenses and regulations and liquor, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages, further providing for ready-to-drink cocktail permit, for authority to acquire ready-to-drink cocktail permits, for distributors' and importing distributors' restrictions on sales, storage, etc. and for unlawful acts relative to malt or brewed beverages and licensees.
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31 Jul 2025
In DNA data and testing, further providing for policy, for definitions, for State DNA Data Base, for State Police recommendation of additional offenses and annual report, for DNA sample required upon conviction, delinquency adjudication and certain ARD cases, for DNA data base exchange, for expungement and for mandatory cost; and making an editorial change.
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23 Jul 2025
In licenses and regulations and liquor, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages, further providing for authority to issue liquor licenses to hotels, restaurants and clubs, for sales by liquor licensees and restrictions, for sale of malt or brewed beverages by liquor licensees, for retail dispensers' restrictions on purchases and sales, for unlawful acts relative to malt or brewed beverages and licensees and for premises to be vacated by patrons.
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23 Jul 2025
In licenses and regulations and liquor, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages, further providing for wine and spirits auction permits.
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10 Jul 2025
Providing for cannabis; regulating the personal use and possession of cannabis; establishing the Cannabis Control Board; providing for powers and duties of the Cannabis Control Board; establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for disproportionately impacted area, for regulation of cannabis business establishments, for enforcement and immunities, for laboratory testing, for advertising, marketing, packaging and labeling and for preparation, destruction and regulation of cannabis, edible and infused products; imposing a sales tax and excise tax on cannabis, edible and infused products; establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for cannabis clean slate and for miscellaneous provisions; imposing penalties; consolidating provisions relating to medical use of cannabis; transferring powers and duties of the Department of Health to the Cannabis Control Board; and making repeals.
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30 Jun 2025
Establishing the Cannabis Control Board; providing for powers and duties of the Cannabis Control Board; establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for permits and for dispensing cannabis to patients and caregivers; and making repeals.
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24 Jun 2025
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in licenses and regulations and liquor, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages, further providing for license districts, license period and hearings, for issuance, transfer or extension of hotel, restaurant and club liquor licenses, for malt and brewed beverages manufacturers', distributors' and importing distributors' licenses and for malt and brewed beverages retail licenses.
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18 Jun 2025
Providing for miscellaneous provisions and for violent incident clearance and technological investigative methods; establishing the Violent Incident Clearance and Technological Investigative Methods Program; and imposing duties on the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.
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22 May 2025
In licenses and regulations and liquor, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages, further providing for sale of malt or brewed beverages by liquor licensees, for wine expanded permits and for retail dispensers' restrictions on purchases and sales.
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12 May 2025
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in patients, further providing for prohibitions; in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for protections for patients and caregivers and providing for enforcement and civil actions; and promulgating regulations.
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12 May 2025
Providing for the regulation and treatment of cannabis, for exemption from criminal or civil penalties, for effect on cannabis convictions and expungements and for membership and duties of the Liquor Control Board; establishing Pennsylvania Cannabis Stores; providing for social and economic equity, for license, permit or other authorization, for packaging, labeling, advertising and testing, for recordkeeping and inspection, for prohibitions and penalties and for tax and tax administration; establishing the Cannabis Revenue Fund, the Communities Reimagined and Reinvestment Restricted Account and the Substance Use Disorder Prevention, Treatment and Education Restricted Account; providing for the issuance of bonds; imposing duties on the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Revenue; and making repeals.
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30 Apr 2025
In distilleries, wineries, bonded warehouses, bailees for hire and transporters for hire, further providing for limited wineries.
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28 Apr 2025
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to establish the Task Force on Recruitment and Retention of Law Enforcement.
Wayne Fontana
Democratic
· Chair
Daniel Laughlin
Republican
· Chair
Joseph Picozzi
Republican
· Vice Chair
Lisa Boscola
Democratic
Frank Farry
Republican
Martin Flynn
Democratic
Dawn Keefer
Republican
Tracy Pennycuick
Republican
Devlin Robinson
Republican
Christine Tartaglione
Democratic
Roster and leadership as published by the General Assembly.
13 May 2025 · 10:00
Room 8E-B East Wing (LIVE STREAMED)
1 bill on the docket
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