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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL SATURDAY, JULY 22, 2017 SESSION OF 2017 201ST OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY No. 48 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JOURNAL APPROVAL POSTPONED The House convened at 11 a.m., e.d.t. The SPEAKER. Without objection, the approval of the Journal of Tuesday, July 11, 2017, will be postponed until THE SPEAKER (MIKE TURZAI) printed. PRESIDING JOURNAL APPROVED PRAYER The SPEAKER. The following Journal is in print and, HON. BRYAN BARBIN, member of the House of without objection, will be approved: Monday, March 13, 2017. Representatives, offered the following prayer: Will you join me in bowing your heads in humble HOUSE RESOLUTION application to the creator of the universe, asking that our hearts INTRODUCED AND REFERRED be opened to His illumination. The small progress that we have made after 4 or 5 weeks in this Assembly provides proof of the No. 437 By Representatives ORTITAY, GROVE, imperfection of our collective human understanding. In this PHILLIPS-HILL, STEPHENS, WARD, WATSON and budget crisis we have not applied to You humbly with fasting WHEELAND and prayer, though we know many instances of Your A Resolution directing the Legislative Budget and Finance superintending providence in our favor in this Assembly, Committee to study the cost of providing high quality child-care Commonwealth, and nation. services compared to existing child-care subsidy rates of the To that kind providence we owe this opportunity of Commonwealth. consulting in peace on the means of establishing the future happiness of all Pennsylvanians. Have we now forgotten our Referred to Committee on CHILDREN AND YOUTH, powerful friend? Do we now imagine we no longer need His July 21, 2017. assistance? Lord, Your body of believers have lived a long time, and the longer we live, the more convincing proofs we see of HOUSE BILLS this inalienable truth, that God governs the affairs of all. We INTRODUCED AND REFERRED believe that "except the Lord builds the house, they labour in vain that build it." We believe that without Your concurring aid, No. 1660 By Representatives SAMUELSON, HENNESSEY, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the BARBIN, BIZZARRO, BOBACK, CALTAGIRONE, builders of Babel, that we shall be divided by our little local CARROLL, D. COSTA, DAVIDSON, DAVIS, DeLISSIO, interests, that our projects shall be confounded, and that we DeLUCA, DRISCOLL, FRANKEL, FREEMAN, GOODMAN, ourselves shall become a reproach and byword down to future HANNA, HARKINS, HARPER, HILL-EVANS, JAMES, ages. And what is worse, that if hereafter may cause the good KAUFFMAN, KAVULICH, KIM, KINSEY, KORTZ, citizens to despair. LONGIETTI, MADDEN, MATZIE, McCARTER, McNEILL, We therefore implore the assistance of heaven and its MULLERY, MURT, NEILSON, O'BRIEN, PASHINSKI, blessings on this day's deliberations, recognizing these prophetic RAVENSTAHL, READSHAW, ROZZI, SAINATO, words were spoken by Pennsylvania's Speaker Benjamin SCHLOSSBERG, SCHWEYER, SIMS, SNYDER, Franklin 230 years ago when all seemed lost at the SOLOMON, WARREN, WATSON, YOUNGBLOOD, Constitutional Convention. GILLEN and TOOHIL We ask that You keep alive in all Your servants the spark of celestial fire called conscience. An Act amending the act of June 27, 2006 (1st Sp.Sess., P.L.1873, No.1), known as the Taxpayer Relief Act, in senior citizens property And all of God's people say, Amen. tax and rent rebate assistance, further providing for definitions. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Referred to Committee on FINANCE, July 12, 2017. (The Pledge of Allegiance was recited by members and visitors.) 1396 LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL—HOUSE JULY 22 No. 1662 By Representatives PETRI, DEAN, MURT, Referred to Committee on STATE GOVERNMENT, HARPER and WATSON July 19, 2017. An Act amending the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971, providing for an unconventional No. 1668 By Representatives WHITE, STURLA, natural gas severance tax and for the Unconventional Natural Gas DRISCOLL, A. HARRIS, PHILLIPS-HILL, ROTHMAN, Severance Tax Fund; establishing the Unconventional Gas Well McCLINTON, TOOHIL, PICKETT, D. COSTA, TAYLOR and Employment Tax Credit Program; and making a related repeal. KAUFFMAN Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL An Act establishing the Education Endowment Board and the Education Endowment Fund; and providing additional funding for RESOURCES AND ENERGY, July 19, 2017. public schools in this Commonwealth. No. 1663 By Representatives MURT, D. COSTA, Referred to Committee on EDUCATION, July 19, 2017. DONATUCCI, FARRY, GILLEN, KORTZ, MILLARD, MILNE and WHEELAND No. 1670 By Representative HANNA An Act amending the act of December 7, 1982 (P.L.784, No.225), known as the Dog Law, in licenses, tags and kennels, exempting An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania persons who use detection dogs from fees and other charges. Consolidated Statutes, providing for registration of horse-drawn vehicles and establishing the Horse-Drawn Vehicle Fund. Referred to Committee on AGRICULTURE AND RURAL Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION, July 21, AFFAIRS, July 19, 2017. 2017. No. 1664 By Representatives MURT, FITZGERALD, No. 1671 By Representatives P. COSTA, D. COSTA, V. BROWN, CALTAGIRONE, DEAN, KINSEY, ROEBUCK, DeLUCA and PASHINSKI SCHLOSSBERG and THOMAS An Act amending Title 3 (Agriculture) of the Pennsylvania An Act providing for the rights and privileges of homeless Consolidated Statutes, in weights and measures, further providing for persons. definitions, for office and working standards and equipment, for specific powers and duties of department and regulations, for testing Referred to Committee on URBAN AFFAIRS, July 19, and inspections of standards, for general testing and inspections, for registration and report of inspection and testing of weighing and 2017. measuring devices used for commercial purposes, for police powers, right of entry and stoppage, for powers and duties of director and No. 1665 By Representatives MURT, MILLARD, inspector, for city and county sealers and deputy sealers of weights and D. MILLER, O'NEILL, ROEBUCK, TAYLOR, SCHWEYER measures, appointment and powers and duties, for method of sale of commodities, for butter, oleomargarine and margarine, for fluid dairy and WATSON products, for flour, cornmeal and hominy grits, for licenses, for weighmasters' certificates, for preparation of weighmaster's certificate, An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), for scale requirement, for disposition of copies of certificates, for known as the Public School Code of 1949, in charter schools, further suspension of revocation of licenses, for sales by weight, for meter providing for funding for charter schools. required, for investigations and for disposition of funds, providing for interim procedures and establishing the Weights and Measures Referred to Committee on EDUCATION, July 19, 2017. Restricted Account. No. 1666 By Representatives SANTORA, COOK, BAKER, Referred to Committee on AGRICULTURE AND RURAL CHARLTON, BARRAR, MILLARD, GODSHALL, AFFAIRS, July 21, 2017. PASHINSKI, GROVE, DeLUCA, JOZWIAK and NEILSON No. 1672 By Representatives BURNS, HENNESSEY, An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 DUSH, SONNEY, CALTAGIRONE, McGINNIS, (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in assault, providing for the offense of drug delivery resulting DONATUCCI, RAPP, FREEMAN, KINSEY, SAINATO, in serious bodily injury; in other offenses, further providing for drug ENGLISH, W. KELLER, HAHN, WARD, NEILSON, trafficking sentencing and penalties; and, in sentencing, further D. COSTA, LONGIETTI, ROTHMAN, RYAN, EVERETT, providing for sentences for second and subsequent offenses. O'NEILL, MILLARD, SANKEY, MURT, MARSICO, BIZZARRO, GILLEN, READSHAW, SCHWEYER and Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY, July 19, 2017. WATSON No. 1667 By Representatives WARNER, RYAN, An Act designating a bridge on that portion of State Route 1002, METCALFE, ROAE, MILLARD, EVERETT, WARD, HELM, known as Friend Lea Road over U.S. Route 219, Ebensburg Borough, Cambria County, as the Cyril Thomas Yeckley Memorial Bridge. DOWLING, TALLMAN, WHEELAND, COX, A. HARRIS, SANKEY and ZIMMERMAN Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION, July 21, An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of 2017. the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in detainers and extradition, providing for coordination with Department of Homeland Security. 2017 LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL—HOUSE 1397 No. 1673 By Representatives GILLESPIE, PASHINSKI, No. 1678 By Representatives BARRAR, MILLARD, D. COSTA, P. COSTA, EVERETT, MEHAFFIE, MILLARD, NEILSON and WHEELAND DiGIROLAMO, ROTHMAN, BARBIN, FEE, GERGELY and BERNSTINE An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in size, weight and load, further providing for limits on number of towed vehicles, for length of vehicles and for An Act amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated application to tow trucks. Statutes, in property and waters, further providing for damage to property; in protection of property and waters, further providing for littering; in dams, bar racks and migration devices, further providing Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION, July 22, for marking of dams; in preliminary provisions, further providing for 2017. boating education and for fees; and, in operation of boats, further providing for operating watercraft under influence of alcohol or controlled substance and providing for aggravated assault by No. 1679 By Representatives EVANKOVICH,