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Pennsylvania · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 742: An Act amending Title 44 (Law and Justice) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in DNA data and testing, further providing for policy, for definitions, for DNA sample required upon conviction, delinquency adjudication and certain ARD cases, for collection from persons accepted from other jurisdictions, for expungement and for mandatory cost.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 742 is a bill introduced in the Pennsylvania House on March 3, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: An Act amending Title 44 (Law and Justice) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in DNA data and testing, further providing for policy, for definitions, for DNA sample required upon conviction, delinquency adjudication and certain ARD cases, for collection from persons accepted from other jurisdictions, for expungement and for mandatory cost. Primary sponsor: Kristine Howard (Democratic). It lists 11 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 3, 2025): Referred to Judiciary.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 12

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Kristine HowardPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse167
Joe CiresiCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse146
José GiralCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse180
Roni GreenCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse190
Carol Hill-EvansCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse95
Malcolm KenyattaCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse181
Emily KinkeadCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse20
Rick KrajewskiCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse188
Ed NeilsonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse174
Chris PielliCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse156
Ben SanchezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse153
Melissa ShustermanCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse157

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Referred to Judiciary

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source