Pennsylvania · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 226: An Act providing for the protection of patients and medical personnel from health care facility retaliation, for prohibitions, for rebuttable presumptions, for discriminatory treatment, for evidence, for civil penalties and remedies, for criminal penalty, for restitution and damages, for injunctive relief, for peer review activity and for exemption.

In committee Last action January 22, 2025: Referred to Judiciary

Plain-language summary

HB 226 is a bill introduced in the Pennsylvania House on January 22, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: An Act providing for the protection of patients and medical personnel from health care facility retaliation, for prohibitions, for rebuttable presumptions, for discriminatory treatment, for evidence, for civil penalties and remedies, for criminal penalty, for restitution and damages, for injunctive relief, for peer review activity and for exemption. Primary sponsor: Joe Ciresi (Democratic). It lists 13 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (January 22, 2025): Referred to Judiciary.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor: Joe Ciresi (Democratic). 13 co-sponsors.