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HB 331 — An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in budget and finance, further providing for expenses; in facilities and supplies, further providing for deposits into account; and, in access to justice, providing for performance audit of account.

Congress · introduced 2025-01-27

Latest action: — Act No. 1 of 2026, Feb. 4, 2026

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · house — Referred to JUDICIARY, Jan. 27, 2025
  2. · house — Reported as committed, June 2, 2025
  3. · house — First consideration, June 2, 2025
  4. · house — Laid on the table, June 2, 2025
  5. · house — Removed from table, Dec. 16, 2025
  6. · house — Second consideration, with amendments, Dec. 17, 2025
  7. · house — Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS, Dec. 17, 2025
  8. · house — (Remarks see House Journal Page ), Dec. 17, 2025
  9. · house — Re-reported as committed, Jan. 28, 2026
  10. · house — Third consideration and final passage, Jan. 28, 2026 (147-52)
  11. · house — (Remarks see House Journal Page ), Jan. 28, 2026
  12. · senate — In the Senate
  13. · senate — Referred to JUDICIARY, Jan. 30, 2026
  14. · senate — Reported as amended, Feb. 2, 2026
  15. · senate — First consideration, Feb. 2, 2026
  16. · senate — Second consideration, Feb. 3, 2026
  17. · senate — Re-referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, Feb. 3, 2026
  18. · senate — Re-reported as amended, Feb. 3, 2026
  19. · senate — Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS, Feb. 4, 2026
  20. · senate — Re-reported as committed, Feb. 4, 2026
  21. · senate — Third consideration and final passage, Feb. 4, 2026 (46-2)
  22. · house — In the House
  23. · house — Referred to RULES, Feb. 4, 2026
  24. · house — Re-reported on concurrence, as committed, Feb. 4, 2026
  25. · house — House concurred in Senate amendments, Feb. 4, 2026 (187-11)
  26. · house — (Remarks see House Journal Page ), Feb. 4, 2026
  27. · house — Signed in House, Feb. 4, 2026
  28. · senate — Signed in Senate, Feb. 4, 2026
  29. — Presented to the Governor, Feb. 4, 2026
  30. — Approved by the Governor, Feb. 4, 2026
  31. — Act No. 1 of 2026, Feb. 4, 2026

Text versions

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Bill text

Printer's No. 0286 · 1,793 characters · source document

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PRINTER'S NO.   286

                       THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                           HOUSE BILL
                           No. 331
                                                 Session of
                                                   2025

     INTRODUCED BY BRIGGS, SCHLOSSBERG, HANBIDGE, GIRAL, CEPEDA-
        FREYTIZ, FREEMAN, DOUGHERTY, SANCHEZ, PIELLI, HILL-EVANS,
        HOWARD, DONAHUE, KHAN, NEILSON, WARREN, CIRESI, FLEMING,
        OTTEN, CERRATO, WAXMAN AND GREEN, JANUARY 27, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JANUARY 27, 2025


                                      AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
 2      Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in facilities and
 3      supplies, further providing for surcharge.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.      Section 3733.1(a) introductory paragraph and (b)
 7   of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are
 8   amended to read:
 9   § 3733.1.    Surcharge.
10      (a)    Imposition of surcharge.--In addition to each fee
11   imposed under section 3733(a.1) (relating to deposits into
12   account), [except as set forth in subsection (b),] the following
13   apply:
14             * * *
15      [(b)     Exceptions.--Subsection (a) does not apply to a
16   conviction or guilty plea based on the filing of a traffic
17   citation charging an offense under 75 Pa.C.S. (relating to
1   vehicles) which is classified as summary under a State statute
2   or local ordinance as provided in the Pennsylvania Rules of
3   Criminal Procedure.]
4      * * *
5      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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Outbound (6)

datetypetoamountrolesource
—referred_to_committeePennsylvania House Rules Committee—pa-leg
—referred_to_committeePennsylvania Senate Appropriations Committee—pa-leg
—referred_to_committeePennsylvania Senate Rules And Executive Nominations Committee—pa-leg
—referred_to_committeePennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee—pa-leg
—referred_to_committeePennsylvania House Appropriations Committee—pa-leg
—referred_to_committeePennsylvania House Judiciary Committee—pa-leg

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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.

Committees

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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.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Tim Briggs (D, state_lower PA-149)sponsor0—5
2Ben Waxman (D, state_lower PA-182)cosponsor0—1
3Benjamin V. Sanchez (D, state_lower PA-153)cosponsor0—1
4Carol Hill-Evans (D, state_lower PA-95)cosponsor0—1
5Chris Pielli (D, state_lower PA-156)cosponsor0—1
6Danielle Friel Otten (D, state_lower PA-155)cosponsor0—1
7Ed Neilson (D, state_lower PA-174)cosponsor0—1
8G. Roni Green (D, state_lower PA-190)cosponsor0—1
9Jared G. Solomon (D, state_lower PA-202)cosponsor0—1
10Joe Ciresi (D, state_lower PA-146)cosponsor0—1
11Joe Webster (D, state_lower PA-150)cosponsor0—1
12Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz (D, state_lower PA-129)cosponsor0—1
13Jose Giral (D, state_lower PA-180)cosponsor0—1
14Justin C. Fleming (D, state_lower PA-105)cosponsor0—1
15Keith S. Harris (D, state_lower PA-195)cosponsor0—1
16Kristine C. Howard (D, state_lower PA-167)cosponsor0—1
17Kyle Donahue (D, state_lower PA-113)cosponsor0—1
18Liz Hanbidge (D, state_lower PA-61)cosponsor0—1
19Melissa Cerrato (D, state_lower PA-151)cosponsor0—1
20Michael H. Schlossberg (D, state_lower PA-132)cosponsor0—1
21Perry S. Warren (D, state_lower PA-31)cosponsor0—1
22Robert Freeman (D, state_lower PA-136)cosponsor0—1
23Sean Dougherty (D, state_lower PA-172)cosponsor0—1
24Tarik Khan (D, state_lower PA-194)cosponsor0—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

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Rules Committee · pa-leg
  2. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania Senate Appropriations Committee · pa-leg
  3. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania Senate Rules And Executive Nominations Committee · pa-leg
  4. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee · pa-leg
  5. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee · pa-leg
  6. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee · pa-leg

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