Pennsylvania · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 749: An Act amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public welfare laws of the Commonwealth," in public assistance, further providing for uniformity in administration of assistance and regulations as to assistance and for copayments for subsidized child care, providing for report on transition to chip-enabled access cards, further providing for reports to General Assembly, for persons eligible for medical assistance and for nonemergency medical transportation services and providing for abrogation of regulatory requirements for payment for outpatient behavioral health services within physical confines of behavioral health clinic facilities and for SNAP benefit reporting; and making a repeal.

Enacted Last action November 12, 2025: Act No. 46 of 2025

Plain-language summary

HB 749 is a bill introduced in the Pennsylvania House on February 26, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: An Act amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public welfare laws of the Commonwealth," in public assistance, further providing for uniformity in administration of assistance and regulations as to assistance and for copayments for subsidized child care, providing for report on transition to chip-enabled access cards, further providing for reports to General Assembly, for persons eligible for medical assistance and for nonemergency medical transportation services and providing for abrogation of regulatory requirements for payment for outpatient behavioral health services within physical confines of behavioral health clinic facilities and for SNAP benefit reporting; and making a repeal. Primary sponsor: Dave Madsen (Democratic). It lists 18 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (November 12, 2025): Act No. 46 of 2025.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor: Dave Madsen (Democratic). 18 co-sponsors.