Pennsylvania 2025_0 Regular Session Status: In Committee Bipartisan · 10 D · 1 R cosponsors

HB 20 — An Act amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for adult use of cannabis; regulating the personal use and possession of cannabis; establishing the Keystone Cannabis Authority; providing for powers and duties of the Keystone Cannabis Authority; establishing the Community Opportunity Fund; providing for social and economic equity, for regulation of cannabis business establishments, for enforcement and immunities, for laboratory testing, for advertising, marketing, packaging and labeling and for preparation, destruction and regulation of cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; imposing a sales tax and excise tax on cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for cannabis clean slate and for miscellaneous provisions; imposing penalties; consolidating provisions relating to the medical use of cannabis; transferring certain powers and duties of the Department of Health to the Keystone Cannabis Authority; and making repeals.

Last action — Referred to HEALTH, July 14, 2025

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. 2
    In Committee
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    Passed House
  4. 4
    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill is in committee in the House. Introduced July 14, 2025. It must pass committee before a floor vote.

Next likely step: a committee vote, then a floor vote in the House.

Prognosis

Advancing 42% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

Low

How often bills like it became law.

  • In Committee

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 11 sponsors

    1 primary, 10 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Bipartisan support

    Sponsored across 2 parties (10 D · 1 R) — cross-party backing.

Prognosis reads this bill's own signals — stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes and cross-state momentum. Odds come from a model trained on which bills have become law.

Summary

A Bipartisan Path to Adult-Use Cannabis Legalization in Pennsylvania

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Referred to HEALTH, July 14, 2025

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 10 co-sponsors · 242 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (10)

Not signed on (242)

242 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Subjects

public-safety taxation civil-rights health-insurance
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Frequently asked questions

What does HB 20 do?
A Bipartisan Path to Adult-Use Cannabis Legalization in Pennsylvania
Who sponsors HB 20?
HB 20 is sponsored by Dan K. Williams (Democratic), Keith S. Harris (Democratic), Emily Kinkead (Democratic), Abby Major (Republican), Nathan Davidson (Democratic), Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz (Democratic), Sean Dougherty (Democratic), Joe Ciresi (Democratic), John C. Inglis III (Democratic), Steven R. Malagari (Democratic), and Joseph C. Hohenstein (Democratic).
What is the current status of HB 20?
This bill is in committee in the House. Introduced July 14, 2025. It must pass committee before a floor vote.
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