COMMONWEALTH OF

LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2019

SESSION OF 2019 203D OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY No. 66

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The SPEAKER. Pastor Williamson is also a captain in the The House convened at 1 p.m., e.s.t. Pennsylvania National Guard. He is a chaplain for our State's National Guard. Sir, thank you for your service. THE SPEAKER () GUEST INTRODUCED PRESIDING The SPEAKER. With the chair, Rob Kauffman, and the PRAYER pastor, Kenneth Williamson, is the pastor's wife, Kristen. Will you please stand. Thank you very much for being a guest with us The SPEAKER. The prayer today will be offered by Pastor today. Thank you. Ken Williamson of Orrstown United Brethren Church in Orrstown, Pennsylvania. He is the guest of our good friend and colleague, the Judiciary chair, Representative Rob Kauffman. JOURNAL APPROVAL POSTPONED

PASTOR KEN WILLIAMSON, Guest Chaplain of the House The SPEAKER. The approval of the Journal of Wednesday, of Representatives, offered the following prayer: October 30, 2019, will be postponed until printed, without objection. If you would bow your heads with me according to your faith tradition. Thank you. JOURNALS APPROVED Our God and Father, we recognize You as the sovereign ruler over all nations. Remind us this day and always that if we are to The SPEAKER. We do have the following Journals that are be the greatest, we must become the least, and if we are to be ready to be in print, and they will be approved if I do not hear an masters, we must become the servant of others. May we possess objection: a zeal for justice and righteousness, while always being ready with compassion for those who are weak. Create in us the will to Wednesday, May 8, 2019; do Your will so that we may do justice, love mercy, and walk Monday, May 13, 2019; humbly with our God. Tuesday, May 14, 2019; Sovereign God, we pray for all those in positions of authority. Wednesday, May 15, 2019; May our faith be filled with gladness and may our worship of Wednesday, May 22, 2019; and Thee be in spirit and in truth. Strengthen and increase our Thursday, May 23, 2019. admiration for honest dealing, clean thinking, and suffer not our hatred of hypocrisy and pretense ever to diminish. Make us to They will be approved. choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a half-truth when the whole can be one. Endow BILLS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEES, us with courage that is born of loyalty to all that is noble and CONSIDERED FIRST TIME, AND TABLED worthy, that scorns to compromise with vice and injustice, and knows no fear when truth and right are in jeopardy. Grant us new HB 1536, PN 2887 (Amended) By Rep. HENNESSEY ties of friendship and new opportunities of service, and finally, that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with love, Consolidated Statutes, in general provisions, further providing for definitions; in licensing of drivers, further providing for suspension of humility, and temper of minds, which are the characteristics of operating privilege; in special vehicles and pedestrians, further Thee, the divine author of our most blessed faith. providing for penalty for violation of subchapter; and, in miscellaneous All this we ask in the name of the great friend and master of provisions, further providing for the offense of careless driving. all mankind. Amen. TRANSPORTATION.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE HB 1800, PN 2886 (Amended) By Rep. SONNEY

(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited by members and An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known visitors.) as the Public School Code of 1949, in school district financial recovery, providing for duties of receivers in certain districts. 1792 LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL—HOUSE NOVEMBER 18

EDUCATION. HB 2000, PN 2805 By Rep. HENNESSEY

An Act desig