What's the Pa. House Voting on This Week?
The Pennsylvania House returns to session on Monday; here's what's on the agenda this week.
Here's this week's schedule for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Information has been supplied by Rep. Mike Turzai, Republican Majority Leader. In light of the recent sexual abuse scandals involving students, the House passed and sent to the Senate for consideration the Child Exploitation Awareness Education Act, House Bill 19 authored by Rep. Mauree Gingrich (R-Lebanon County). The legislation would require the Pennsylvania Department of Education to develop an age-appropriate child exploitation awareness curriculum to be included in the health curriculum for children in grades K-8. The curriculum would teach children to recognize sexual abuse and to identify certain behaviors in adults, such as grooming, that can lead to …
Alyson D'Alessandro
9:34 pm on Thursday, February 14, 2013
It looks like HB76 hasn't been re-introduced yet by Rep. Jim Cox. It is listed under his Co-Sponsorship Memoranda, but not as an official House bill. (Last year it was known as HB 1776/SB 1400.) http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDocs/Legis/CSM/DisplayMemos.cfm?SPick=20130&Chamber=H&MemberID=1114 more ›