Here is how our area House of Representatives members voted on recent legislation that was forwarded to the Senate for concurrence:

House Bill 37

The bill would amend the Pa. Election Code to permit counties to pre-canvass mail-in and absentee ballots starting up to seven days before Election Day. It aims to expedite the counting process and provide quicker, more efficient election results.

Vote: 103-99

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

House Bill 497

The bill would prohibit corporations that are substantially foreign owned from making expenditures and contributions in support of the success or defeat of a candidate or ballot question.

Vote: 146-56

Yes: Gary Day, Doyle Heffley and Zach Mako.

No: Jamie Barton and Jack Rader.

House Bill 836

Known as the PARENT Act (Preserving Access to Reproductive Efforts Non-Traditional), the bill would protect the fundamental right of individuals to use assisted reproductive technology (ART), including IVF. It would establish explicit state-level protections for patients and medical providers to ensure access to fertility treatments without political interference.

Vote: 147-55

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

House Bill 1678

The bill would amend the Tax Reform Code of 1971 to levy a 5% gross receipts tax on revenue generated from digital advertising platforms (like Google, Meta, and Amazon) and allocates the funds to property tax relief for seniors.

Vote: 139-63

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

No: Zach Mako.

House Bill 2305

The bill would allow the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue to issue a conditional two-year Sales and Use Tax exemption for newly-formed charities, providing them a provisional two-year window to build a financial history and documentation before applying for the standard five-year exemption.

Vote: 202-0

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

House Bill 2336

The bill aims to improve highway work zone safety by educating new and teen drivers, requiring the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to include information regarding the dangers of unsafe driving and safe driving practices in highway work zones in its official educational materials and driver’s manuals, and would mandate the Pennsylvania driver’s license examination include at least one question testing the applicant’s knowledge of safe driving in work zones.

Vote: 202-0

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

House Bill 1262

The bill would require all candidates and political committees, who file periodic campaign finance reports with the Department of State, to do so electronically.

Vote: 105-97

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

House Bill 2049

The bill would amend the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act to increase the death benefit provided to surviving families for funeral and burial expenses, raising the maximum burial allowance from the current $7,000 to $20,000 to better align with actual average funeral costs.

Vote: 180-12

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

No: Jack Rader.

House Bill 2252

The bill would expand penalties for the nonconsensual sharing of real or AI-generated intimate images. Current law only applies to perpetrators who are current or former intimate partners, but the bill would hold offenders accountable regardless of their relationship to the victim.

Vote: 202-0

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

House Bill 2337

The bill would allow cities to enact local ordinances with stronger penalties for the illegal riding of ATVs and dirt bikes on city streets. It would restore authority to cities and urban municipalities, giving them the option to craft and enforce local ordinances regulating ATVs and dirt bikes.

Vote: 202-0

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

House Bill 2427

The bill would amend the Insurance Company Law of 1921 to update and consolidate state regulations regarding utilization management for stage four, advanced metastatic cancer drugs, establishing clear parameters for how insurance companies manage and authorize drugs for stage four metastatic cancer patients.

Vote: 202-0

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

House Bill 2429

The bill would require electric utilities to publish and regularly update publicly accessible maps that detail the capacity of their distribution networks, mandating these electric distribution system capacity maps include circuit limits, substation constraints, and interconnection queue statuses to help solar, energy storage, and other distributed energy developers identify viable locations before initiating project designs.

Vote: 110-92

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

House Bill 2550

The bill would amend the state’s Radiation Protection Act to strengthen safety oversight at commercial nuclear power plants. It would update the fee structure paid by nuclear power reactors to the Department of Environmental Protection and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, increasing the annual fee per nuclear power reactor site from $650,000 to $825,000.

Vote: 200-2

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