House Bill 1678 would impose a 5% gross receipts tax on the sale of digital advertising within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  The PA Chamber opposes this proposal as it will disproportionately fall on Pennsylvania’s small businesses, violates basic principles of sound tax policy, and will end up in costly litigation. 

House Bill 2224 would statutorily cap utility return on equity for public utility companies, undermining Pennsylvania’s existing regulatory process and discouraging the private investment needed for critical energy infrastructure, grid modernization, and reliability improvements. Limiting utilities’ ability to attract investment could slow critical infrastructure upgrades and increase energy-related costs for businesses, making it more expensive for employers to operate, expand, and create jobs in Pennsylvania.

House Bill 2437 provides a commonsense update to existing bridge funding by allowing counties to reinvest unused dollars from completed Marcellus Legacy Fund bridge projects into other eligible bridge needs within the county. Under current law, these funds are restricted to a narrow category of at-risk deteriorated bridges, which can leave remaining balances unused once those specific projects are complete. This legislation enables counties to apply overage dollars more broadly across bridge maintenance and repair needs, consistent with federal and state requirements. 

H.B. 2632 would terminate the authority to issue tax credits under the existing Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) programs beginning in fiscal year 2027-28 and replace them with a new Education Options Tax Credit framework. In doing so, the bill would impose numerous new restrictions, reporting requirements, and administrative mandates on scholarship organizations and participating schools, upending a proven framework that has expanded educational opportunities for thousands of students.
 

H.B. 2266 provides a long-overdue update to the Highway Transfer “Turnback” Program by modernizing municipal maintenance payments to reflect modern project costs. These updates will provide greater predictability and fairness for local governments that have assumed responsibility for maintaining former state roads and will encourage more municipalities to participate in the program. 

House Bill 1558 would require the installation of diaper-changing stations in many private sector buildings. The bill would have significant implications on a broad range of private businesses who would be subject to the new mandate, responsible for all associated costs, and could face severe penalties. And despite their status as a key stakeholder, we are not aware of any consulted on this legislation with the business community. Accordingly, we oppose this bill for now and urge a more collaborative process.

H.B. 2469 complements H.B. 2266 by expanding and clarifying the ability of local governments to utilize public-private partnerships (P3s) to deliver transportation projects. By enabling counties and major municipalities to collaborate with the private sector on the design, financing, construction, and maintenance of infrastructure, the bill promotes innovation and more efficient use of public resources. This added flexibility allows local governments to pursue creative financing and delivery methods within the existing P3 review structure, helping to accelerate project delivery, improve infrastructure quality, and better address pressing transportation needs.

House Bill 2076 would establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for the exploration, development, and production of geothermal energy in Pennsylvania. It provides regulatory clarity and legal certainty for businesses interested in developing geothermal energy projects in Pennsylvania by establishing a clear permitting, ownership, and oversight framework where none currently exists. While we understand there are a number of unresolved issues with the bill, we support its continued advancement with the expectation that further amendments will be considered. As we confront generation challenges and increasing demand on the electric grid, H.B. 2076 supports the development of additional Pennsylvania energy resources. 

House Bill 2151 requires the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) to create a model ordinance for data center citing. As currently drafted, this bill risks creating unintended regulatory barriers that complicate local governance and weaken Pennsylvania’s competitiveness in data‑center site selection. Model ordinances can easily become overly restrictive, with prescriptive provisions that conflict with operational needs, hinder reliability, or duplicate existing permitting requirements. For any industry, certainty, predictability, and flexibility are essential. Data centers evaluate locations based on clear, objective, and modern local frameworks, and a rigid ordinance would place Pennsylvania at a disadvantage compared to states offering greater certainty. Finally, and most importantly, any successful model ordinance must be developed collaboratively, with meaningful input from data center operators, utilities, economic development partners, and municipalities, to ensure it reflects industry best practices and supports, rather than constrains, future investment.

This legislation would allow people who complete educational and vocational programs while incarcerated to have accelerated parole eligibility consideration. Additionally, this legislation would assist individuals in obtaining licensing post-release by counting educational credits against the waiting time for license eligibility. 

House Bill 2150 imposes annual energy and water usage reporting requirements on data centers, which are duplicative and harmful to Pennsylvania’s competitiveness. The bill singles out one industry, applying exclusively to data centers even though many other facility types have comparable or greater resource demands. This targeted approach isolates data centers and places Pennsylvania at a competitive disadvantage relative to states actively working to attract these projects. Additionally, the bill requires companies to submit detailed operational data to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), which is an enforcement agency. This creates unnecessary exposure for businesses. A neutral analytic entity, such as the Independent Fiscal Office (IFO), would be far more appropriate for this role. Additionally, the level of detail required in these reports could also expose sensitive information, enabling identification of critical facilities, inference of operational workloads, and increasing vulnerability to cyber or physical threats, even if data is aggregated. Finally, the proposed $10,000‑per‑day penalty for reporting lapses is excessive and disproportionate, particularly for administrative errors that occur without any environmental harm.

This legislation would create a series of state-level operational mandates that would disrupt interstate commerce, increase costs, and expose the Commonwealth to legal uncertainty without producing meaningful safety improvements. It would require railroads to break up or reconfigure trains at Pennsylvania’s borders, increasing handling, delays, and risk. These impacts would be felt across supply chains that support energy production, manufacturing, agriculture, and consumer goods, ultimately driving up costs for employers and consumers.