HB 394 — An Act amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in incentives for municipal volunteers of fire companies and nonprofit emergency medical services agencies, further providing for limitations.
Congress · introduced 2025-01-28
Latest action: — Referred to FINANCE, Jan. 28, 2025
Sponsors
- Michael Stender (R, PA-108) — cosponsor · 2025-01-28
- Keith J. Greiner (R, PA-43) — cosponsor · 2025-01-28
- Craig T. Staats (R, PA-145) — cosponsor · 2025-01-28
- Mark M. Gillen (R, PA-128) — cosponsor · 2025-01-28
- Marla Brown (R, PA-9) — cosponsor · 2025-01-28
Action timeline
- · house — Referred to FINANCE, Jan. 28, 2025
Text versions
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Bill text
Printer's No. 0359 · 1,963 characters · source document
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PRINTER'S NO. 359
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 394
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY GROVE, STENDER, GREINER, KUTZ, STAATS AND GILLEN,
JANUARY 28, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, JANUARY 28, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, in incentives for municipal volunteers
3 of fire companies and nonprofit emergency medical services
4 agencies, further providing for limitations.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 79A14 of Title 35 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
9 § 79A14. Limitations.
10 (a) Applicability of tax credit.--A tax credit established
11 under this chapter may be used against the active volunteer's
12 tax liability for the current taxable year and every year
13 thereafter. The tax credit established under this chapter shall
14 remain in effect until the governing body of the municipality
15 repeals the tax credit.
16 (b) Alternative benefit.--Notwithstanding any other
17 provision of this chapter, for an active volunteer who has no
18 tax liability for the tax imposed under Chapter 3 of the Local
19 Tax Enabling Act or for a tax imposed by a municipality on real
1 property, the governing body of a municipality that elects to
2 offer a tax credit established under this chapter shall
3 determine an alternative method by which the active volunteer
4 shall receive the full benefit of the otherwise awarded tax
5 credit.
6 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
20250HB0394PN0359 - 2 -Connected on the graph
Inbound (5)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-28 | Marla Brown | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-28 | Mark M. Gillen | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-28 | Keith J. Greiner | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-28 | Craig T. Staats | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-01-28 | Michael Stender | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
Outbound (1)
| date | type | to | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | referred_to_committee | Pennsylvania House Finance Committee | — | pa-leg |
The full graph
Every typed relationship touching this entity — 6 edges across 2 categories. Grouped by what the connection is; the heaviest few are shown, with a link to the full list.
Committees
→ Referred to committee 1 edge
Legislation
← Cosponsored bill 5 edges
- Marla Brown · cosponsor · 2025-01-28
- Mark M. Gillen · cosponsor · 2025-01-28
- Keith J. Greiner · cosponsor · 2025-01-28
- Craig T. Staats · cosponsor · 2025-01-28
- Michael Stender · cosponsor · 2025-01-28
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 | Craig T. Staats (R, state_lower PA-145) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2 | Keith J. Greiner (R, state_lower PA-43) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Mark M. Gillen (R, state_lower PA-128) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Marla Brown (R, state_lower PA-9) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Michael Stender (R, state_lower PA-108) | 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 House Finance Committee · pa-leg
- 2025-01-28 · cosponsored by Keith J. Greiner (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-28 · cosponsored by Michael Stender (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-28 · cosponsored by Mark M. Gillen (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-28 · cosponsored by Craig T. Staats (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-28 · cosponsored by Marla Brown (cosponsor) · sponsorship