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PA SB910

Bill

Status

Introduced

7/8/2025

Primary Sponsor

Arthur Haywood

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes a 6.5% severance tax on the gross value of natural gas extracted at the wellhead in Pennsylvania, effective January 1, 2026

  • Applies to all producers engaged in severing natural gas for sale, profit, or commercial use, covering gas from oil fields, natural gas fields, shale beds, and other formations (excludes coal bed methane and storage field extraction)

  • Requires producers to file monthly returns within 15 days after each reporting period, with the first return due February 15, 2026, reporting units severed, producing sites by county and municipality, and tax owed

  • Deposits all severance tax revenues into the General Fund

  • Repeals 58 Pa.C.S. § 2318, the expiration provision for unconventional gas well fees (impact fees)

Legislative Description

Providing for natural gas severance tax; and repealing expiration provision relating to unconventional gas well fees.

Last Action

Referred to Finance

7/8/2025

Committee Referrals

Finance7/8/2025

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