Bills affecting Low-income / working-class in Pennsylvania — 2026 session

Further providing for definitions, for minimum wages and for exemptions.

Further providing for minimum wages.

Further providing for penalties.

Providing for employment in executive capacity, for employment in administrative capacity and for employment in professional capacity.

Further providing for definitions, for minimum wages and for preemption.

In personal income tax, further providing for special tax provisions for poverty.

Establishing the Emergency SNAP Benefits Restricted Account and providing for a transfer to facilitate payment of SNAP benefits to recipients; and imposing duties on the Department of Human Services, the Secretary of the Budget and the State Treasurer.

Further providing for definitions, for minimum wages and for exemptions; providing for gratuities; further providing for enforcement and rules and regulations, for penalties and for civil actions; repealing provisions relating to preemption; and providing for local option and for taxpayer savings and reinvestment.

Providing for the study of intergenerational poverty; establishing the Intergenerational Poverty Tracking System, the Interagency Workgroup on Poverty and Economic Insecurity and the Pennsylvania Commission on Poverty Elimination and Economic Security; providing for a strategic plan and for reports; and imposing duties on the Department of Human Services and the Secretary of the Budget.

Providing for small business minimum wage increase tax credit.

In Independent Fiscal Office, further providing for definitions and for duties of office and providing for poverty impact analysis.

Establishing the Direct Care Worker Wage Advisory Board and providing for its powers and duties; providing for minimum wage for direct care workers and for a direct care worker registry; and imposing penalties.

Further providing for exemptions and for duty of employer.

In public assistance, providing for healthier choices in SNAP waiver.

Further providing for definitions and for minimum wages; providing for eligibility and coverage; further providing for exemptions, for duty of employer, for enforcement and rules and regulations and for civil actions; and repealing provisions relating to preemption.

In fiscal provisions relating to public assistance, providing for distribution of SNAP benefits.

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.

In personal income tax, further providing for special tax provisions for poverty and for returns and liability.

Further providing for minimum wages, for exemptions and for duty of employer.