Thousands of bills are introduced into the Pennsylvania General Assembly each legislative session. Each session is two years for both the House and Senate. For over a decade, PYC has actively monitored the introduction of both negative and positive substantive legislation impacting LGBTQ Pennsylvanians. In past sessions, we only had a handful of well-known bills. In the sessions we have now, dozens of bills are introduced that relate to LGBTQ people across the commonwealth.
The following list will include bills and resolutions as they are introduced. The 2025-2026 legislative session technically begins on December 1, 2024, but the legislature does not gavel into it until January 7, 2025.
In the 2023-2024 session there were 71 bills and nine resolutions that introduced that would have had a positive impact on LGBTQ Pennsylvanians, and 14 bills that were introduced that would have had a negative impact on LGBTQ Pennsylvanians. Last session, six positive LGBTQ bills and two resolutions were passed by the state House, and two anti-LGBTQ bills were passed by the state Senate. No substantive LGBTQ legislation was enacted in the previous legislative session.
New bills are being introduced every day, so please refer to the General Assembly website here for more information.
Positive Bills
State House of Representatives
To be Introduced: Removing sex designation on birth certificates (Representative Ben Sanchez)
To be Introduced: HIV Decriminalization (Representative Ben Waxman)
State Senate
To be Introduced: Data for LGBTQ Lives (Senator Sharif Street)
To be Introduced: Grants to Help LGBTQ+ Senior Citizens (Senator Sharif Street)
To be Introduced: Anti-Discrimination Constitutional Amendment (Senator Lisa Boscola)
To be Introduced: Protecting LGBTQ+ Individuals from Discrimination in the Credit Service Industry (Senator Lisa Boscola)
To be Introduced: Marriage Equality (Senator Carolyn Comitta)
Negative Bills
State House of Representatives
To be Introduced: Trans Youth Healthcare Ban (Representative Brad Roae)
To be Introduced: Prohibiting Speech Condemning Anti-Trans Rhetoric (Representative Robert Leadbeter)
To be Introduced: Anti-LGBTQ Inclusion in Public Education/Don’t Say LGBTQ Bill (Representative Stephanie Borowicz)
State Senate
To be Introduced: Anti-Trans Student Sports Ban (Senator Judy Ward, Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill, Sen. Kim L. Ward, Sen. Lisa Baker, Sen. Michele Brooks, Sen. Camera Bartolotta, Sen. Tracy Pennycuick, Sen. Rosemary M. Brown, Sen. Lynda Schlegel Culver, Sen. Dawn Keefer)
To be Introduced: Trans Youth Healthcare Ban (Senator Judy Ward)
To be Introduced: Trans Youth Healthcare Services Ban with Public Funding (Senator Judy Ward)