Pennsylvania House Bill 26

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 34)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-08 - Referred to Health
Pending: House Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses), 35 (Health and Safety) and 40 (Insurance) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in provisions relating to abortion, repealing provisions relating to short title of chapter and to legislative intent, further providing for definitions, repealing provisions relating to medical consultation and judgment, to informed consent, to parental consent, to abortion facilities, to printed information, to Commonwealth interference prohibited, to spousal notice, to determination of gestational age, to abortion on unborn child of 24 or more weeks gestational age, to infanticide, to prohibited acts and to reporting, further providing for publicly owned facilities, public officials and public funds and for fetal experimentation and repealing provisions relating to civil penalties, to criminal penalties, to State Board of Medicine and State Board of Osteopathic Medicine and to construction; providing for reproductive rights; repealing provisions relating to compliance with Federal health care legislation as to regulation of insurers and related persons generally; and imposing penalties.

In provisions relating to abortion, repealing provisions relating to short title of chapter and to legislative intent, further providing for definitions, repealing provisions relating to medical consultation and judgment, to informed consent, to parental consent, to abortion facilities, to printed information, to Commonwealth interference prohibited, to spousal notice, to determination of gestational age, to abortion on unborn child of 24 or more weeks gestational age, to infanticide, to prohibited acts and to reporting, further providing for publicly owned facilities, public officials and public funds and for fetal experimentation and repealing provisions relating to civil penalties, to criminal penalties, to State Board of Medicine and State Board of Osteopathic Medicine and to construction; providing for reproductive rights; repealing provisions relating to compliance with Federal health care legislation as to regulation of insurers and related persons generally; and imposing penalties.

Rep. Kristine Howard [D]	Rep. Tarah Probst [D]	Rep. Liz Hanbidge [D]	Rep. Ben Sanchez [D]
Rep. Christopher Pielli [D]	Rep. Jose Giral [D]	Rep. Arvind Venkat [D]	Rep. Nancy Guenst [D]
Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler [D]	Rep. Tarik Khan [D]	Rep. Emily Kinkead [D]	Rep. Mary Isaacson [D]
Rep. Lisa Borowski [D]	Rep. Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz [D]	Rep. Joseph Hohenstein [D]	Rep. Joseph Ciresi [D]
Rep. David Delloso [D]	Rep. Michael Schlossberg [D]	Rep. Melissa Shusterman [D]	Rep. Steven Malagari [D]
Rep. Carol Hill-Evans [D]	Rep. Dan Frankel [D]	Rep. Kyle Donahue [D]	Rep. Mary Jo Daley [D]
Rep. Christina Sappey [D]	Rep. Melissa Cerrato [D]	Rep. Lindsay Powell [D]	Rep. Danielle Otten [D]
Rep. Timothy Briggs [D]	Rep. Jennifer O'Mara [D]	Rep. Roni Green [D]	Rep. Sean Dougherty [D]
Rep. Tina Davis [D]	Rep. Abigail Salisbury [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-08	House	Referred to Health

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/2025/hb26
Text	https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/text/PDF/2025/0/HB0026/PN0007