This week, my House colleagues and I passed important bills that will help our neighbors and improve communities:
When it comes to your healthcare, humans should make the decisions – not bots or artificial intelligence. We’re protecting your health and safety, especially when it involves artificial intelligence, by requiring that patients are informed when AI is used during treatment or insurance decisions and ensuring that any final decisions on patient care or coverage are made by humans (HB 1925). We’re also requiring safeguards to prevent AI companions from encouraging or assisting suicide, self-harm or violence and direct users to crisis resources like the 988 Lifeline when appropriate; requiring AI companions to clearly disclose that users are interacting with AI rather than a human; and protecting kids from sexually explicit content and AI interactions designed to isolate them (HB 2006).
We’re increasing access to healthcare by requiring health insurers to cover fertility preservation services if a medically necessary treatment, like cancer treatment, could cause infertility (HB 2649) and by expanding the age groups who are offered the vaccines for flu, pneumonia, and RSV after a hospital stay or as part of their ongoing medical care (HB 2378).
We’re protecting consumers by requiring the Public Utility Commission (PUC) to explicitly consider the public interest – including affordability and service reliability – when making decisions on utility rates (HB 2184) and by setting statewide standards for licensing home inspectors and registration of home inspectors in training (HB 2645).
We’re continuing to hold Big Tech accountable and strengthening public safety by requiring data center operators to submit emergency floor plans to building code officials and local fire chiefs before they get an occupancy certificate (HB 2535).
We’re improving interactions between individuals and law enforcement by giving people with a communication barrier the option to show that on their driver's license or identification (HB 1700).
We’re keeping students and school staff safe by directing schools to consider using a silent panic alarm system as part of their emergency response plans (HB 634).
Additionally, all three of my resolutions were approved by the House with two of those resolutions being adopted unanimously! H.R. 562 designates and recognizes September 18, 2026, as the birthday of the U.S. Air Force in Pennsylvania. H.R. 566 designates and recognizes September 27, 2026, as Gold Star Mother’s and Family Day in Pennsylvania. Finally, H.R. 575 designates and recognizes the month of September 2026 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in Pennsylvania.