Recent News
May 16, 2013 - Governor Signs Smucker Voting Standards Bill into Law
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May 14, 2013 - Senator Smucker discusses Senate Bill 851,
renaming the Lititz Pike Bridge in Lancaster County to the Thaddeus
Stevens Bridge. |
May 13, 2013
- Senate State Government Committee Public Hearing regarding 2013 Real
Property Disposition Plan and to Receive Testimony on SB244 - Right to Know Law
May 10, 2013 - PA Supreme Court Upholds Legislative Redistricting Plan
May 6, 2013 - Smucker’s Jury Commissioner Bill Signed Into Law
May 6, 2013 - Senate State Government Committee to Explore Open Records Law
Improvements
April 30, 2013 - Senate State Government Committee Meeting to Consider
Bills
April 26, 2013 – Online voter sign-up due (LancasterOnline.com)
April 22, 2013 - Pennsylvania may soon embrace online voter registration
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
April 19, 2013 - Senate Passes Three Bills to Strengthen Transparency and Efficiency in
State Government
April 18, 2013 - Bills in Harrisburg aim for transparency, ease of
registering to vote (Philadelphia Inquirer)
April 17, 2013 - Online Voter Registration and two other reforms pass
Senate (Harrisburg Patriot)
April 17, 2013 - PA Senate passes online voter registration bill
(ABC27)
April 17, 2013 - Bill to allow for on-line voter registration in
Pennsylvania clears the state Senate (CBS Philly)
April 17, 2013 - PA Senate unanimously votes for online voter
registration (Philadelphia Weekly)
April 17, 2013 - Smucker’s Online Voter Registration Bill Clears Senate
April
16, 2013 - Smucker's Jury Commissioner Bill Clears Senate
April 5, 2013 - Senator Lloyd K. Smucker: Church World Service Annual
Breakfast
March 19, 2013 - Pennsylvania immigrant youth, and educators join Senator
Smucker at a press conference introducing the Pennsylvania Dream Act. The
bill would provide an opportunity for undocumented students who have
graduated from high school in the Commonwealth to pay in-state tuition rates
at state colleges.
March 19, 2013 - State Government Committee Meeting to Consider Bills
March 18, 2013 - Senator Smucker Holds Hearing into Penn State's Board
of Governance
March 18, 2013 - State Government Committee Public Hearing regarding
Penn State Board of Trustees
March 14, 2013 From pennlive.com: Penn State’s governance and
board to get a closer look by Senate State Government Committee chaired by
Senator Smucker.
March 14, 2013 - Media Advisory - Senate State Government Committee
Hearing to Study Penn State Governance
March 10, 2013 – From the LancasterOnline.com:
Senator Smucker highlighted for effectiveness in the General Assembly
March 6, 2013 – From the LancasterOnline.com:
Members of the York rock band "Live" plan to bring a $40 million data
center to Lancaster and credit state Senator Lloyd K. Smucker for
interesting them in the area.
March 5, 2013 – From the Allentown Morning Call: A group of state
lawmakers led by state Senator Lloyd K. Smucker are working to create
improvement zones in mid-sized cities across Pennsylvania.
March 6, 2013 - Senator Smucker questions PennDOT Secretary Barry Schoch about transportation safety, funding and mass transit during Senate Appropriations budget hearings.
March 4, 2013 – Senator Smucker questions
Education Department Secretary Ronald Tomalis about basic education funding
during Senate Appropriations budget hearings
February 28, 2013 – Senator Smucker offers
remarks on structural reforms with the heads of Pennsylvania’s state-related
colleges and universities during Senate Appropriations budget hearings
February 27, 2013 – Senator Smucker questions
the heads of SERS and PSERS about public employee pensions during Senate
Appropriation budget hearings
February 12, 2013 - Senate State Government Committee Meeting to Consider
Bills
February 1, 2013 - Senator Lloyd K. Smucker: Campus of History Ribbon Cutting
January 31, 2013 - Senate State Government Committee to Examine Penn State
Governance Structure

January 30, 2013 - Humane legislation (Lancaster Online)
January 29, 2013 - Secretary of Education Lauds Three Lancaster County
School Districts for Innovative, Student-Focused Program (Pennsylvania
Department of Education)
January 23, 2013 - Smucker Introduces Pennsylvania Dream Act
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