State Legislature Bills

Establishes a competitively awarded, annually funded grant program to expand affordable high-speed broadband in rural Pennsylvania and former steel communities, with priority for unconnected homes, workforce centers, small businesses, and open-access projects.

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 creates an affordability office, mandates transparent pricing, strengthens emergency price-gouging enforcement, promotes utility and housing-cost reforms, reviews burdensome regulations, and authorizes targeted grants and rebates subject to funding and fiscal review.

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 targeted tax credits and workforce training grants for advanced manufacturing, energy production, and steel supply chain employers that create or keep full-time jobs in distressed Pennsylvania communities. It prioritizes high-unemployment areas and requires training partnerships, in-state hiring and wage standards, annual reporting, and clawbacks if companies miss job promises.

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.