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PA SB993
Bill
Status
12/9/2025
Primary Sponsor
Dawn Keefer
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AI Summary
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Authorizes Pennsylvania boroughs, third class cities, and counties to maintain, repair, establish, and receive funds for memorials honoring first responders, including firefighters, EMTs, paramedics, emergency vehicle drivers, police officers, sheriffs, and deputy sheriffs
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Expands the definition of "memorial" in existing veterans' memorial statutes to explicitly include monuments honoring Pennsylvania National Guard members and armed forces reserve components, not just soldiers
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Grants borough and city councils authority to control and contribute to the maintenance of both veteran and first responder memorials within their jurisdictions
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Allows county commissioners to appropriate money for erecting monuments and memorial halls honoring first responders, in addition to existing authority for veterans' memorials
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Takes effect 60 days after enactment
Legislative Description
In corporate power relating to boroughs, further providing for specific powers; in veterans' affairs relating to boroughs, further providing for care and erection of memorials; in corporate powers relating to third class cities, providing for control, maintenance and repair of memorials; in veterans' affairs relating to third class cities, further providing for care of memorials; in grounds and buildings, further providing for monuments, memorials and memorial halls to war veterans and for preservation, maintenance, repair and completion of public monuments; and making an editorial change.
Last Action
Referred to Local Government
12/10/2025