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PA SR128
Resolution
Status
6/20/2025
Primary Sponsor
Kristin Phillips-Hill
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AI Summary
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Senate encourages the Department of Community and Economic Development to partner with private sector and tourism entities to establish a "Pennsylvania Sweet and Salty Trail" promoting confectionery, snack food, and agricultural industries
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Pennsylvania ranks first nationally in confectionery employment, second in snack food employment, and leads all states in pretzel and potato chip manufacturing
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The confectionery and snack food industries provide more than $1 billion in taxes to state and local governments and employ tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians
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The trail would support tourism revenue and over 1 million small businesses across the Commonwealth, including those outside the food industry
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Resolution is non-binding and does not mandate action or allocate funding
Legislative Description
Encouraging the Department of Community and Economic Development to partner with the private sector and tourism promotion entities to establish and promote a Pennsylvania Sweet and Salty Trail to honor and recognize the importance and value of the confectionery, snack food, food manufacturing and agricultural industries in this great Commonwealth.
Last Action
Reported as committed
11/19/2025