State Legislature Bills

Creates targeted, performance-based tax credits for manufacturers and skilled-trades employers investing in former industrial communities, with incentives for apprenticeships and Pennsylvania suppliers. It also streamlines permit reviews while retaining environmental, health, and safety protections.

The bill appropriates $250 million for affordable housing, workforce training, small-business financing, energy savings, transportation, broadband, and targeted investment in underserved Pennsylvania communities. It also requires matching funds for many recipients, public performance reporting, independent evaluations, and clawbacks for misuse or nonperformance.

The bill would spend $50 million annually on a voluntary “housing-first, work-forward” program offering housing assistance, employment training, support services, and employer tax credits, with annual outcome reporting.

The bill requires conflict disclosures and recusals, restricts gifts, publishes major contract and beneficial-ownership information, protects whistleblowers, and creates a Public Integrity Office within the Attorney General’s office. It also establishes civil penalties and possible contracting bans for knowing violations.

The bill funds broadband expansion, smart infrastructure upgrades, stronger cybersecurity and emergency communications, digital government services, workforce training, and public technology access, prioritizing underserved Pennsylvania communities.

This bill creates a targeted economic development package for Pennsylvania legacy mill towns and freight corridors, offering performance-based tax credits, site preparation grants, and workforce training partnerships for steel, energy, and advanced manufacturing projects. To qualify, companies must create or keep full-time jobs, invest in Pennsylvania, and work with local schools or apprenticeship programs, with preference for redeveloping shuttered industrial sites and using Pennsylvania suppli

The Pennsylvania Working-Class Tax Relief Act aims to provide targeted tax relief for working-class families by increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit and offering temporary sales tax exemptions on essential goods to alleviate financial pressures from inflation and cost of living.