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 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.

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.