The second quarter of 2025 legislative session in the Pennsylvania General Assembly has come to an end. Here is a look at some of the legislation introduced by those representing Butler County since April:

Bernstine has been the primary sponsor of one bill. Legislation introduced by Bernstine includes:

• HB1585 would create a new offense in the Pennsylvania Crimes Code making it illegal to charge a fee to remove a booking photograph or mug shot from a website.

• In conjunction with primary cosponsors Reps. Seth Grove and Barbara Gleim, a group of bills dubbed the Unemployment Compensation Equity Package including:

– HB1687 would tie the number of weeks people can collect unemployment benefits to the unemployment rate. During periods when the rate is lower than 9%, 12 weeks would be available. When the rate is 95% or higher, 20 weeks would be available.

– HB1692 would change the wording outlining what conditions an individual can collect unemployment after quitting a job so that the required “necessitous and compelling” circumstances the law currently covers must be directly related to the job the employee quit. It would also create a statutory definition of “willful misconduct.”

– HB1688 would change the benefit rate to be based on a claimant’s average quarterly earnings rather than highest quarter earnings.

– HB1690 would require claimants to report other benefits such as disability payments and workers’ compensation to determine if a claimant meets the current standard for benefits of being “able and available” to work.

– HB1691 would increase requirements for someone denied unemployment to be eligible for benefits again from when they have earned six times their weekly benefit rate to when they have earned 15 times their weekly benefit rate; and add a requirement that they also have worked 10 credit weeks.

Bonner has been a primary co-sponsor of three bills since April. Legislation introduced by Bonner includes:

• HB1498, introduced with Rep. Christopher Rabb, would change laws regarding how property inherited by multiple individuals when someone dies without an estate plan to give other owners first rights to buy out co-owners who want to force a sale of the property, clarify for legal purposes that dividing property is the preferred solution when some inheritors want to sell property and others want to retain it, and replace the current auction system used when a sale is forced with an open market system to potentially get better sale prices.

• HB1406, introduced with Rabb, would create a new criminal offense for deed fraud. The offense would include the attempt or accomplishment of illegal and fraudulent transfers of property ownership.

Additional legislation yet to be introduced but circulating in search of cosponsors:

• introduced with Rep. Jim Haddock would prohibit waste transfer facilities from being established within 3 miles of a municipality with a population of 1,000 people per square mile or greater.

Since April, Mustello — in conjunction with Reps. Joe Ciresci, Mike Armanini and Tina M. Davis — has introduced a resolution designating June “Italian-American Heritage Month” in Pennsylvania.

Since April, Scialabba has circulated memorandums in search of cosponsorship for three pieces of legislation, including:

• a bill that would update asset seizure exemption laws in some cases to include protection of a percentage of a home’s value, vehicles and business tools.

• two bills in conjunction with Reps. Robert Leadbetter and Joseph D’Orsie, that would create an AI development tax credit; and establish a state artificial intelligence consortium to test and vet regulatory barriers to AI development, work to connect AI stakeholders and recommend AI related legislation.

• with Reps. Rob W. Kauffman, Joe Hamm and Robert Leadbeter, a bill that would require judicial candidates to submit a drug test with their statement of financial interests.