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HB1838 • 2025

An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in powers of department and local authorities, further providing for authority to erect traffic-control devices.

An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in powers of department and local authorities, further providing for authority to erect traffic-control devices.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
WARNER
Last action
2025-09-09
Official status
Referred to TRANSPORTATION, Sept. 9, 2025
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in powers of department and local authorities, further providing for authority to erect traffic-control devices.

An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in powers of department and local authorities, further providing for authority to erect traffic-control devices.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in powers of department and local authorities, further providing for authority to erect traffic-control devices.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-09-09 TRANSPORTATION

    Referred to TRANSPORTATION, Sept. 9, 2025

Official Summary Text

An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in powers of department and local authorities, further providing for authority to erect traffic-control devices.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
PRINTER'S NO. 2274
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1838
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY WARNER, HAMM, K.HARRIS, McNEILL, PROBST, ROAE,
STENDER AND ZIMMERMAN, SEPTEMBER 4, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, SEPTEMBER 9, 2025
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in powers of department and local authorities,
further providing for authority to erect traffic-control
devices.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 6122 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
§ 6122. Authority to erect traffic-control devices.
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(e) Payment of costs to install and maintain traffic-control
signals.--The department shall pay for the costs associated with
the installation and maintenance of traffic-control signals on
State-designated highways. If a State-designated highway
intersects with a highway under the jurisdiction of a local
authority, the department shall pay for the cost of installing
and maintaining a traffic-control signal at the intersection in
proportion to the number of State-designated highways at the
intersection and the local authority shall pay for the balance
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of the cost.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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