The following in the voting record of our local senators:

Senate Bill 867

Pennsylvania Senate Bill 867 amends the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act to modernize accessibility standards. The bill establishes a formal review process by the Accessibility Advisory Board for updating building codes.

It establishes a framework for reviewing and adopting new International Code Council accessibility standards for buildings, including ramps, doors and restrooms.

It tasks the existing Accessibility Advisory Board with reviewing code changes, which ensures input from experts and people with disabilities, and requires a public comment period and at least one public hearing for proposed changes.

Vote: 50-0

Yes: David Argall, Rosemary Brown, Jarrett Coleman and Nick Miller

The following bills were acted upon by our state House members and sent to the Senate for concurrence:

House Bill 200

The bill proposes a statewide paid family and medical leave insurance program, ensuring no hardworking Pennsylvanian must choose between their job and their family’s well-being. It supports small businesses that cannot afford to offer this benefit to their employees, which will allow them to compete with large corporations who are already able to do so.

Vote: 107-92

No: Jamie Barton, Gary Day, Doyle Heffley, Zach Mako and Jack Rader

House Bill 1191

The bill amends Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in railroads, providing for prohibition on blocking of crossings, for limitation on length of freight or work trains, for authorization to monitor safety practices and operations by collective bargaining representatives, for safe staffing levels for trains or light engines, for wayside detector systems, for study of transportation of hazardous materials or waste, for reporting system for transportation of hazardous materials or waste and for hazard impact assessment; and imposing penalties.

Vote: 120-79

No: Jamie Barton, Gary Day, Doyle Heffley, Zach Mako and Jack Rader

House Bill 1718

The bill would require insurance companies offering or issuing homeowner’s insurance policies to notify homeowners of the availability and pricing of flood insurance. It will require annual notice to be given to individuals with homeowner’s insurance.

Vote: 142-57

Yes: Gary Day, Zach Mako and Jack Rader

No: Jamie Barton and Doyle Heffley

House Bill 1800

The bill would update current laws by repealing the section of law that only recognizes marriage as being between a man and woman.

Vote: 127-72

Yes: Jamie Barton, Doyle Heffley and Zack Mako

No: Gary Day and Jack Rader

House Bill 1851

The bill would allow nurse-midwives to make referrals for physical therapy and to sign fetal death certificates.

Vote: 199-0

Yes: Jamie Barton, Gary Day, Doyle Heffley, Zach Mako and Jack Rader

House Bill 2163

The bill would expand where a dentist with a restricted faculty license may practice to include clinical facilities owned and operated by a dental school or an affiliated nonprofit academic health care center.

This bill will also allow those licensees to practice for continuing education purposes for up to one year without a Pennsylvania license.

Vote: 199-0

Yes: Jamie Barton, Gary Day, Doyle Heffley, Zach Mako and Jack Rader

Senate Bill 1218

The bill amends the Liquor Code, in licenses and regulations and liquor, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages, providing for Philadelphia 250 permits.

It provides for special sporting event permits for public venue licensees; and, in distilleries, wineries, bonded warehouses, bailees for hire and transporters for hire, further providing for limited distilleries and distilleries.

Vote: 176-23

Yes: Jamie Barton, Gary Day, Doyle Heffley, Zach Mako and Jack Rader