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PA SB881

Bill

Status

Introduced

6/24/2025

Primary Sponsor

Amanda Cappelletti

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Pennsylvania courts and prothonotaries are prohibited from ordering service of documents or issuing subpoenas for out-of-state legal matters involving reproductive health care services

  • Peace officers from other states are barred from arresting individuals in Pennsylvania for crimes related to reproductive health care services committed in their home states

  • The Governor is prohibited from extraditing individuals to other states for criminal offenses involving reproductive health care services that would be lawful under Pennsylvania law

  • Law enforcement agencies cannot deliver individuals to other states under presigned extradition waivers when the underlying offense involves reproductive health care services legal in Pennsylvania

  • The act takes effect 60 days after enactment and defines "reproductive health care services" to include medical, surgical, counseling, or referral services related to pregnancy, contraception, or lawful pregnancy termination

Legislative Description

In bases of jurisdiction and interstate and international procedure, further providing for assistance to tribunals and litigants outside this Commonwealth with respect to service and for issuance of subpoena; in commencement of proceedings, further providing for authority of officers of another state to arrest in this Commonwealth; and, in detainers and extradition, further providing for definitions, for duty of Governor with respect to fugitives from justice and for presigned waiver of extradition.

Last Action

Referred to Judiciary

6/24/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary6/24/2025

Full Bill Text

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