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HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s 2023-24 Legislative Session closed Dec. 1 and the next session, while officially underway, doesn’t fully begin until lawmakers are sworn into office Jan. 7. Looking back, members of the state House and Senate introduced 3,862 bills and 924 resolutions across the two-year session. There were 77 bills adopted into law in 2023 and 162 adopted in 2024. The combined total of 239 was far fewer than the previous six legislative sessions. There hasn’t been a lower total since 2009-10 when 226 bills advanced into law — the last time the Pennsylvania General Assembly had a partisan divide. Democrats controlled the House while Republicans led the Senate. Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, often cites the challenge of advancing legislation with a split government. That dynamic won’t change in 2025-26. Though there are 20 new members joining the Legislature — 16 in the House, four in the Senate — the respective parties defended their majorities. Republicans have a 28-22 advantage in the Senate while Democrats maintained a 102-101 margin in the House. This week, The Daily Item will offer look back at the outcome of legislation proposed last session by area lawmakers, the latest in the series features Jamie Flick, a Republican from the 83rd Legislative District. Flick, a Republican, returns to the Pennsylvania House in the 2025-26 Legislative Session for a second term. Flick ran unopposed in both the primary and general elections to represent the 83rd Legislative District which consists of parts of Lycoming and Union counties. His committee assignments during the 2023-24 session were Children & Youth, Game & Fisheries, Government Oversight, Human Services and Tourism & Economic & Recreational Development. He also served on the Subcommittee on Mental Health. Flick sponsored a combined 186 bills and resolutions in his first and only term, of which he introduced six bills and two resolutions as a prime sponsor. One of his bills advanced to the Senate and returned to the House for concurrence on amendments but ultimately none became law. One of Flick’s bills proposed to improve reimbursement paid to ambulance services for mileage, eliminating a rule that reimbursement didn’t begin until after 20 miles traveled with a patient. It advanced out of the House and passed through the Senate, too, but Republicans in the upper chamber amended the bill during 2023 budget negotiations in an attempt to adopt the school voucher-style program, Pennsylvania Award for Student Success Scholarship Program. The bill went no further and PASS remains a priority initiative for Republicans in the new session, however, lawmakers adopted a different bill into law with the same initial objective sought by Flick — it eliminated the 20-mile rule. Another proposal from Flick sought to create equality in time shared between parents and children under child custody agreements and eliminated “language that assumes the ‘custodial and noncustodial parent’ model of split custody.” He also proposed bills to waive the bachelor’s degree requirement to address Pennsylvania’s shortage of substitute teachers, remove Lycoming County from the commonwealth’s Vehicle Emissions Inspection and Maintenance Program, shift how county president judges are chosen to a majority vote of county judges rather than seniority, and make calibration requirements uniform for all police radar, speedometers and electronic timing devices. Flick voted against each budget adopted last session but he also championed the idea of bipartisanship in the State Capitol, helping form the “Meet Me in the Middle” Caucus to bring together lawmakers from across the aisle. He supported efforts to enable a ballot referendum on universal voter ID, voted to support the approved enhancement of Pennsylvania’s Property Tax and Rent Rebate Program for seniors, supported funding for state-related universities including Penn State’s, opposed Gov. Josh Shapiro’s directive to change voter registration at PennDOT locations from an “opt-in” program to an “opt-out program,” and voted in favor of a marriage equality bill.
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