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PA Updates and Action Alerts
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As you may know, Democrats have used legislative maneuvering to reassign the four PA General Assembly bills to protect women’s athletics, HB 158, HB 1849, SB 1293, and SB 9, to other committees to prevent them from floor votes. All of these bills have passed our state Senate in bipartisan floor votes.
PA Democrats are hellbent on killing bills that protect the safety and integrity of women’s athletics. Despite 79% of Americans opposing men in women’s sports, Democrats have chosen this hill on which to die.
State Representative Barbara Gleim, R-199, a cosponsor of the two House bills, wrote this:
Last December, the House Education Committee again dodged a vote on the measures by re-referring both the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act (House Bill 158) and the Dads Defending Daughters bill (House Bill 1849) to the House Judiciary Committee. My Women in Sports bill has been passed around for almost 360 days…an entire year.
Earlier this week, without notice and without identifying the names of the bills or allowing debate, majority House Democrats on the Judiciary Committee re-referred the bills to the House Health Committee, where the Senate’s Women in Sports bill (Senate Bill 9) was recently referred out of to the Children and Youth Committee. I encourage you to click here and watch the chaotic House Democrat majority leader of the Judiciary Committee silence the Republican chairman and other members of the committee.
In the most recent full Senate floor vote, four courageous Democrats voted for fairness and common sense. PLEASE thank them! They need to know that Pennsylvanians support them!
Senator Christine Tartaglione, D-2
You can see the entire vote details here. If your senator voted YES, please thank her/him! If NO, then tell them you’re angry.
PA4SBR contributor Dr Beth Ann Rosica wrote this in her article for Broad+Liberty:
Fairness is in the eye of the beholder, or perhaps — in the case of protecting women and girls — the eye of the politician. Both the Pennsylvania Senate and House have introduced “fairness” bills; however, the real question is, “fairness for whom?”
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Four brave Senate Democrats broke with their party to defend girls and women. Now House Democrats face a choice: follow their lead or continue putting progressive ideology ahead of fairness and common sense.
Please read Dr Rosica’s entire article at the link above.
A final reminder that May 4, 2026, is THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN THE PRIMARY ELECTION.
Pennsylvania’s primary is May 19, 2026.
Pennsylvania’s general election is November 3, 2026.
PLEASE REGISTER TO VOTE if you have not already.
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