HB 1176 — An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in intestate succession, further providing for shares of others than surviving spouse; and, in dispositions independent of letters, family exemption, probate of wills and grant of letters, further providing for payments to family and funeral directors.
Congress · introduced 2025-04-09
Latest action: — Act No. 50 of 2025, Nov. 24, 2025
Sponsors
- Joe Ciresi (D, PA-146) — sponsor · 2025-04-09
- Benjamin V. Sanchez (D, PA-153) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Robert Freeman (D, PA-136) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Jose Giral (D, PA-180) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Liz Hanbidge (D, PA-61) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Arvind Venkat (D, PA-30) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Carol Hill-Evans (D, PA-95) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Tarik Khan (D, PA-194) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Kyle Donahue (D, PA-113) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Kristine C. Howard (D, PA-167) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Valerie S. Gaydos (R, PA-44) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Steven R. Malagari (D, PA-53) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Joe McAndrew (D, PA-32) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Melissa Cerrato (D, PA-151) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Ed Neilson (D, PA-174) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Perry S. Warren (D, PA-31) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Dan K. Williams (D, PA-74) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Darisha K. Parker (D, PA-198) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz (D, PA-129) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Melissa L. Shusterman (D, PA-157) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Lisa A. Borowski (D, PA-168) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- G. Roni Green (D, PA-190) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Heather Boyd (D, PA-163) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Dave Madsen (D, PA-104) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Abigail Salisbury (D, PA-34) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
- Joe Webster (D, PA-150) — cosponsor · 2025-04-09
Action timeline
- · house — Referred to FINANCE, April 9, 2025
- · house — Reported with request to re-refer to JUDICIARY, June 30, 2025
- · house — Re-referred to JUDICIARY, June 30, 2025
- · house — Reported as committed, July 14, 2025
- · house — First consideration, July 14, 2025
- · house — Re-committed to RULES, July 14, 2025
- · house — Re-reported as committed, Sept. 10, 2025
- · house — Laid on the table, Sept. 10, 2025
- · house — Removed from table, Sept. 10, 2025
- · house — Second consideration, with amendments, Sept. 30, 2025
- · house — Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS, Sept. 30, 2025
- · house — Re-reported as committed, Oct. 1, 2025
- · house — Third consideration and final passage, Oct. 1, 2025 (203-0)
- · house — (Remarks see House Journal Page ), Oct. 1, 2025
- · senate — In the Senate
- · senate — Referred to JUDICIARY, Oct. 3, 2025
- · senate — Reported as committed, Oct. 28, 2025
- · senate — First consideration, Oct. 28, 2025
- · senate — Second consideration, Oct. 29, 2025
- · senate — Amended on third consideration, Nov. 17, 2025
- · senate — Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS, Nov. 17, 2025
- · senate — Re-reported as committed, Nov. 18, 2025
- · senate — Third consideration and final passage, Nov. 18, 2025 (49-0)
- · house — In the House
- · house — Referred to RULES, Nov. 19, 2025
- · house — Re-reported on concurrence, as committed, Nov. 19, 2025
- · house — House concurred in Senate amendments, Nov. 19, 2025
- · house — (Remarks see House Journal Page ), Nov. 19, 2025
- · house — Signed in House, Nov. 19, 2025
- · senate — Signed in Senate, Nov. 19, 2025
- — Presented to the Governor, Nov. 19, 2025
- — Approved by the Governor, Nov. 24, 2025
- — Act No. 50 of 2025, Nov. 24, 2025
- · house — (Remarks see House Journal Page 1377-1379), Sept. 30, 2025
Text versions
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Bill text
Printer's No. 1313 · 2,030 characters · source document
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PRINTER'S NO. 1313
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1176
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY CIRESI, SANCHEZ, FREEMAN, GIRAL, HANBIDGE, VENKAT,
HILL-EVANS, KHAN, DONAHUE, HOWARD, GAYDOS, MALAGARI,
McANDREW, CERRATO, NEILSON, WARREN AND D. WILLIAMS,
APRIL 9, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, APRIL 9, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in dispositions
3 independent of letters, family exemption, probate of wills
4 and grant of letters, further providing for payments to
5 family and funeral directors.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Section 3101(e)(1)(i) of Title 20 of the
9 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, amended July 17, 2024
10 (P.L.805, No.65), is amended to read:
11 § 3101. Payments to family and funeral directors.
12 * * *
13 (e) Unclaimed property.--
14 (1) In any case where property or funds owned by an
15 individual who has died a resident of this Commonwealth have
16 been reported to the Commonwealth and are in the custody of
17 the State Treasurer as unclaimed or abandoned property, the
18 State Treasurer, at any time after the death of the
1 individual, shall only be authorized under this section to
2 distribute the property or to pay the amount being held in
3 custody where all of the following conditions are present:
4 (i) The amount of the funds or the value of the
5 property is [$11,000] $20,000 or less.
6 * * *
7 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 180 days.
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Outbound (6)
| date | type | to | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | referred_to_committee | Pennsylvania Senate Appropriations Committee | — | pa-leg | |
| — | referred_to_committee | Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee | — | pa-leg | |
| — | referred_to_committee | Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee | — | pa-leg | |
| — | referred_to_committee | Pennsylvania House Rules Committee | — | pa-leg | |
| — | referred_to_committee | Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee | — | pa-leg | |
| — | referred_to_committee | Pennsylvania House Finance Committee | — | pa-leg |
The full graph
Every typed relationship touching this entity — 6 edges across 1 category. Grouped by what the connection is; the heaviest few are shown, with a link to the full list.
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joe Ciresi (D, state_lower PA-146) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Abigail Salisbury (D, state_lower PA-34) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Arvind Venkat (D, state_lower PA-30) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Benjamin V. Sanchez (D, state_lower PA-153) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Carol Hill-Evans (D, state_lower PA-95) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Dan K. Williams (D, state_lower PA-74) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Darisha K. Parker (D, state_lower PA-198) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Dave Madsen (D, state_lower PA-104) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Ed Neilson (D, state_lower PA-174) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | G. Roni Green (D, state_lower PA-190) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Heather Boyd (D, state_lower PA-163) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 12 | Joe McAndrew (D, state_lower PA-32) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 13 | Joe Webster (D, state_lower PA-150) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 14 | Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz (D, state_lower PA-129) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 15 | Jose Giral (D, state_lower PA-180) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 16 | Kristine C. Howard (D, state_lower PA-167) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 17 | Kyle Donahue (D, state_lower PA-113) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 18 | Lisa A. Borowski (D, state_lower PA-168) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 19 | Liz Hanbidge (D, state_lower PA-61) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 20 | Melissa Cerrato (D, state_lower PA-151) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 21 | Melissa L. Shusterman (D, state_lower PA-157) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 22 | Perry S. Warren (D, state_lower PA-31) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 23 | Robert Freeman (D, state_lower PA-136) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 24 | Steven R. Malagari (D, state_lower PA-53) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 25 | Tarik Khan (D, state_lower PA-194) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
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- 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania Senate Appropriations Committee · pa-leg
- 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee · pa-leg
- 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee · pa-leg
- 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Rules Committee · pa-leg
- 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee · pa-leg
- 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Finance Committee · pa-leg