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HB 749 — An Act amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public welfare laws of the Commonwealth," in public assistance, further providing for uniformity in administration of assistance and regulations as to assistance and for copayments for subsidized child care, providing for report on transition to chip-enabled access cards, further providing for reports to General Assembly, for persons eligible for medical assistance and for nonemergency medical transportation services and providing for abrogation of regulatory requirements for payment for outpatient behavioral health services within physical confines of behavioral health clinic facilities and for SNAP benefit reporting; and making a repeal.

Congress · introduced 2025-02-26

Latest action: — Act No. 46 of 2025, Nov. 12, 2025

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · house — Referred to HUMAN SERVICES, Feb. 26, 2025
  2. · house — Reported as committed, March 17, 2025
  3. · house — First consideration, March 17, 2025
  4. · house — Laid on the table, March 17, 2025
  5. · house — Removed from table, April 8, 2025
  6. · house — Second consideration, with amendments, April 9, 2025
  7. · house — Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS, April 9, 2025
  8. · house — Re-reported as committed, April 22, 2025
  9. · house — Third consideration and final passage, April 22, 2025 (203-0)
  10. · senate — In the Senate
  11. · senate — Referred to HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, April 28, 2025
  12. · senate — Reported as committed, June 26, 2025
  13. · senate — First consideration, June 26, 2025
  14. · senate — Second consideration, June 30, 2025
  15. · senate — Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS, June 30, 2025
  16. · senate — Re-reported as amended, Nov. 11, 2025
  17. · senate — Third consideration and final passage, Nov. 12, 2025 (46-3)
  18. · house — In the House
  19. · house — Referred to RULES, Nov. 12, 2025
  20. · house — Re-reported on concurrence, as committed, Nov. 12, 2025
  21. · house — House concurred in Senate amendments, Nov. 12, 2025 (199-4)
  22. · house — (Remarks see House Journal Page ), Nov. 12, 2025
  23. · house — Signed in House, Nov. 12, 2025
  24. · senate — Signed in Senate, Nov. 12, 2025
  25. — Presented to the Governor, Nov. 12, 2025
  26. — Approved by the Governor, Nov. 12, 2025
  27. — Act No. 46 of 2025, Nov. 12, 2025
  28. · house — (Remarks see House Journal Page 371-372), April 9, 2025
  29. · house — (Remarks see House Journal Page 410-411), April 22, 2025

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Bill text

Printer's No. 0765 · 1,846 characters · source document

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PRINTER'S NO.    765

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 749
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY MADSEN, GIRAL, SANCHEZ, KHAN, MADDEN, CURRY,
        HOWARD, MAYES AND CERRATO, FEBRUARY 26, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES, FEBRUARY 26, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An
 2      act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public
 3      welfare laws of the Commonwealth," in public assistance,
 4      providing for distribution of SNAP benefits.
 5      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 6   hereby enacts as follows:
 7      Section 1.    The act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), known
 8   as the Human Services Code, is amended by adding a section to
 9   read:
10      Section 476.    Distribution of SNAP Benefits.--Within twelve
11   months of the effective date of this section and every five
12   years thereafter, the department shall analyze SNAP payment
13   distribution schedules based on caseloads and census data,
14   including data from other states and models that utilize more
15   than ten payment issuance days, to determine if changes are
16   needed to the payment distribution schedule. If changes are
17   needed, the department shall develop and implement updates to
18   the payment distribution schedule based on the analysis under
19   this section after consultation with an advisory committee,
1   which provides recommendations to the department on SNAP
2   policies and procedures.
3      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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Outbound (5)

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—referred_to_committeePennsylvania House Rules Committee—pa-leg
—referred_to_committeePennsylvania Senate Appropriations Committee—pa-leg
—referred_to_committeePennsylvania Senate Health And Human Services Committee—pa-leg
—referred_to_committeePennsylvania House Appropriations Committee—pa-leg
—referred_to_committeePennsylvania House Human Services Committee—pa-leg

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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
1Dave Madsen (D, state_lower PA-104)sponsor0—5
2Abigail Salisbury (D, state_lower PA-34)cosponsor0—1
3Benjamin V. Sanchez (D, state_lower PA-153)cosponsor0—1
4Brenda M. Pugh (R, state_lower PA-120)cosponsor0—1
5G. Roni Green (D, state_lower PA-190)cosponsor0—1
6Gina H. Curry (D, state_lower PA-164)cosponsor0—1
7Joe Webster (D, state_lower PA-150)cosponsor0—1
8Jose Giral (D, state_lower PA-180)cosponsor0—1
9Justin C. Fleming (D, state_lower PA-105)cosponsor0—1
10Keith S. Harris (D, state_lower PA-195)cosponsor0—1
11Kristine C. Howard (D, state_lower PA-167)cosponsor0—1
12La'Tasha D. Mayes (D, state_lower PA-24)cosponsor0—1
13Lisa A. Borowski (D, state_lower PA-168)cosponsor0—1
14Maureen E. Madden (D, state_lower PA-115)cosponsor0—1
15Melissa Cerrato (D, state_lower PA-151)cosponsor0—1
16Nathan Davidson (D, state_lower PA-103)cosponsor0—1
17Nikki Rivera (D, state_lower PA-96)cosponsor0—1
18Tarik Khan (D, state_lower PA-194)cosponsor0—1
19Tina M. Davis (D, state_lower PA-141)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

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  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 Health And Human Services Committee · pa-leg
  4. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee · pa-leg
  5. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Human Services Committee · pa-leg

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