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Bills affecting Formerly incarcerated or family of in Pennsylvania (2026 session)
CivicRadar surfaces 47 active Pennsylvania bills this session that affect formerly incarcerated or family of constituents directly. Your rep needs to hear from you before the vote.
Top 20 bills, ranked
Ranked by how strongly each bill matches the formerly incarcerated or family of community, weighted by stage, recency, advocacy-org consensus, and sponsor support.
- 01PA · HB728Introduced
Establishing the Identification Upon Reentry Program.
- 02PA · SB912Introduced
In DNA data and testing, further providing for policy, for definitions, for State DNA Data Base, for State Police recommendation of additional offenses and annual report, for DNA sample required upon conviction, delinquency adjudication and certain ARD cases, for DNA data base exchange, for expungement and for mandatory cost; and making an editorial change.
- 03PA · HB2075In committee
In Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for reentry supervision.
- 04PA · SB387In committee
In authorized disposition of offenders, further providing for sentence for murder, murder of unborn child and murder of law enforcement officer and for sentence of persons under the age of 18 for murder, murder of an unborn child and murder of a law enforcement officer; and, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for parole power.
- 05PA · SB54In committee
In limitation of time, further providing for six months limitation; in matters affecting government units, further providing for exceptions to sovereign immunity, for limitations on damages and for exceptions to governmental immunity and providing for claims for compensation for wrongful conviction; in general administration, providing for services after wrongful conviction; and, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for powers and duties of department.
- 06PA · HB605In committee
In Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, providing for earned compliance credit.
- 07PA · HB1042In committee
In general administration, providing for earned vocational training and education credit; in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for parole power and for short sentence parole; and, in powers and duties, further providing for consideration of criminal convictions.
- 08PA · HB1441In committee
In authorized disposition of offenders, further providing for sentence of persons under the age of 18 for murder, murder of an unborn child and murder of a law enforcement officer; in sentencing, further providing for sentences for second and subsequent offenses; and, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for parole power.
- 09PA · HB1550In committee
In Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, providing for parole for reasons of age and for medical parole under certain circumstances.
- 10PA · SB135In committee
In authorized disposition of offenders, further providing for sentence of persons under the age of 18 for murder, murder of an unborn child and murder of a law enforcement officer; in sentencing, further providing for sentences for second and subsequent offenses; in miscellaneous provisions relating to inmate confinement, establishing the Life with Parole Reinvestment Fund; and, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for parole power.
- 11PA · SB136In committee
In sentencing, repealing provisions relating to transfer of inmates in need of medical treatment; and, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, providing for parole for reasons of age or illness and for medical parole due to public or disaster emergency related to health or contagious disease outbreak.
- 12PA · HB641In committee
In sentencing, further providing for sentences for second and subsequent offenses; and, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for parole power.
- 13PA · HB835In committee
In Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, providing for early parole for educational and vocational certification.
- 14PA · SB111In committee
In general administration relating to correctional institutions, providing for residency of corrections officers.
- 15PA · HB99In committee
In authorized disposition of offenders, further providing for sentence for murder, murder of unborn child and murder of law enforcement officer; in arson, criminal mischief and other property destruction, further providing for the offense of arson and related offenses; in jurisdiction of appellate courts, further providing for direct appeals from courts of common pleas; in post-trial matters, further providing for postconviction DNA testing and for disposition and appeal; in sentencing, further providing for sentencing procedure for murder of the first degree; and, in execution procedure and method, repealing provisions relating to issuance of warrant.
- 16PA · HB496In committee
In miscellaneous provisions relating to inmate confinement, providing for voter registration.
- 17PA · SB872In committee
In Nonnarcotic Medication Assisted Substance Abuse Treatment Grant Pilot Program, further providing for definitions, repealing provisions relating to establishment of pilot program, providing for establishment and further providing for county participation requirements, for use of grant funding, for powers and duties of department, for report to General Assembly and for construction; imposing duties on the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency; and making an editorial change.
- 18PA · HB742In committee
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.
- 19PA · HB886In committee
In general administration relating to correctional institutions, providing for prerelease briefings on veterans benefits.
- 20PA · HB908In committee
In sentencing, providing for termination of long-term parole supervision.
- What formerly incarcerated or family of bills are moving in Pennsylvania in 2026?
- CivicRadar currently tracks 47 Pennsylvania bills this session that affect formerly incarcerated or family of constituents including Establishing the Identification Upon Reentry Program.; In DNA data and testing, further providing for policy, for definitions, for State DNA Data Base, for State Police recommendation of additional offenses and annual report, for DNA sample required upon conviction, delinquency adjudication and certain ARD cases, for DNA data base exchange, for expungement and for mandatory cost; and making an editorial change.; In Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for reentry supervision..
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- How does CivicRadar decide which bills affect formerly incarcerated or family of people?
- CivicRadar matches bill text, sponsor signals, and advocacy-organization positions against a curated set of identity keywords, then ranks by legislative stage and recency. See the Methodology page for the full breakdown.
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