Current Legislation

☑️ Current status: Introduced to House Health Committee

☑️ Sponsored by: Rep Howard (D-167)

☑️ This bill would eliminate the majority of Pennsylvania’s restrictions on abortion care, including the mandated 24 hour waiting period and Medicaid restrictions on abortions. In addition, this bill expands the scope of abortion care providers to include midwives, physician assistants, and certified registered nurse practitioners.

☑️ Current status: Passed House Labor and Industry Committee

☑️ Sponsored by: Rep Miller (D-42)

☑️ This bill is leading efforts to establish a statewide paid family and medical leave insurance program.

☑️ Current status: Passed House Insurance committee

☑️ Sponsored by: Rep Pashinski (D-151)

☑️ This bill would enshrine into state law the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of health care coverage for people up to age 26.

☑️ Current status: Passed House Insurance committee

☑️ ​​Sponsored by: Rep Frankel (D-23)

☑️ This bill would enshrine into state law the Affordable Care Act’s prohibition of annual/lifetime limits on health insurance.

☑️ Current status: Passed House Insurance committee

☑️ Sponsored by: Rep Haddock (D-118)

☑️ This bill would enshrine into state law the Affordable Care Act’s prohibition of exclusion based on pre-existing conditions in health insurance coverage.

☑️ Current status: Introduced to the House Judiciary Committee

☑️ Sponsored by: Rep Powell (D-21)

☑️ This bill would codify the FACE Act on a state level, providing protection from those who attempt to block access to reproductive health services.

☑️ Current status: Passed House Insurance committee

☑️ Sponsored by: Rep Warren (D-31)

☑️ This bill would enshrine into state law the Affordable Care Act’s mandate for no-additional-cost preventive health care.

☑️ Current status: Introduced to the House Health Committee

☑️ Sponsored by: Rep Shusterman (D-157)

☑️ This bill would codify the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) on a state level and specifically protects emergency abortion care.

☑️ Current status: Introduced to the Senate Labor & Industry Committee

☑️ Sponsored by: Sen Cappelletti (D-17)

☑️ This bill would address discrimination against pregnant individuals and ensure appropriate workplace accommodations for them.

✖️ Current status: Introduced to House Health Committee

✖️ Sponsored by Rep Borowicz (R-76)

✖️ This bill would give parents of children aged between 14-17 full access to their medical and mental health records.

✖️ Current status: Introduced to House Education Committee

✖️ Sponsored by Rep Gleim (R-199)

✖️ This harmful and transphobic bill would restrict transgender students’ participation and involvement in girl’s sports. 

✖️ Current status: Introduced to House Health Committee

✖️ Sponsored by Rep Bonner (R-17)

✖️ This extreme anti-abortion bill would require providers and patients to bury or cremate post-abortion tissue for the purpose of establishing “fetal personhood”

✖️ Current status: Introduced to House Health Committee

✖️ Sponsored by Rep Bonner (R-17)

✖️ This anti-abortion extremist bill would require pain medication to be administered to tissue during an abortion. This bill is another attempt to establish personhood by requiring unnecessary medication to be administered to patients during a procedure.

✖️ Current status: Referred to House Education Committee

✖️ Sponsored by: Rep Scialabba (R-12)

✖️ This bill would require parental notification and permission for participation in school-related clubs and organizations and is an attempt to keep students from school sanctioned LGBTQ+ affirming and democracy oriented clubs

✖️ Current status: Introduced to House Education Committee

✖️ Sponsored by Rep Borowicz (R-76)

✖️ This homophobic and transphobic bill is a harmful attempt at suppressing LGBTQ+ history and comprehensive sex education under the guise of an “age appropriate” curriculum.

✖️ Current status: Introduced to House Education Committee

✖️ Sponsored by Rep Hamm (R-84)

✖️ This anti-abortion bill claims to encourage “medically accurate” information to be distributed to students, but really is a misguided approach to establishing harmful notions of “personhood” and “fetal development” to disempower students’ agency and autonomy in accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare.

✖️ Current status: Introduced to Senate Education Committee

✖️ Sponsored by Senator Judy Ward (R-30)

✖️ This harmful and transphobic bill would restrict transgender students’ participation and involvement in girl’s sports.

✖️ Current status: Introduced to House Education Committee

✖️ Sponsored by Senator Mastriano (R- 33)

✖️ This bill is an attempt to prohibit comprehensive sexual and reproductive education from being provided in schools