CHAP LEGISLATIVE ACTION: LEGISLATORS WHO SUPPORT HOMESCHOOLERS

[Updated on June 4, 2014]

The current homeschool law was passed in 1988, 25 years ago, at a time when there was a great deal of skepticism about the viability of homeschooling as an educational option. As a result, Pennsylvania’s law remains one of the most restrictive in the nation, second only to New York. Homeschoolers in Pennsylvania have tried for over 10 years to get relief from the oppressive requirements of the current law. It is time for Pennsylvania to join the majority of states that have enacted laws that do not demand unreasonable and unnecessary government oversight of parents teaching their children at home.

On March 15, 2013, Rep. Mark Gillen introduced House Bill 1013, legislation that would:

• Eliminate the public school superintendent’s review of portfolios;

• Require superintendents to accept an evaluator’s determination that

an appropriate education is occurring in the home education program;

• Provide for an administrative procedure to resolve any claim by

the superintendent that the parent has failed to comply with

any aspect of the homeschool law;

• Ensure that the home education program may continue during the time

of any appeal of an adverse ruling by a hearing examiner; and

• Require that a high school diploma issued by the supervisor

of a home education program be recognized the same as a diploma

issued by the commonwealth.

To help homeschoolers know who among our representatives support home education, we will keep an updated list of the bill's supporters on this link.

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SPONSORS OF HB1013

Rep. Mark M. Gillen - PRIME SPONSOR

District 128

Republican, serving Berks County (Part)

Rep. Ryan P. Aument

District 41

Republican, serving Lancaster County (Part)

Rep. Jim Cox

District 129 Map

Republican, serving Berks County (Part)

Rep. Gordon Denlinger

District 99

Republican, serving Lancaster County (Part)

Rep. Jaret Gibbons

District 10

Democrat, serving Beaver County (Part),

Butler County (Part), Lawrence County (Part)

Rep. Mauree Gingrich

District 101

Republican, serving Lebanon County (Part)

Rep. Rob Kauffman

District 89

Republican, serving Cumberland County (Part),

Franklin County (Part)

Rep. John Lawrence

District 13

Republican, serving Chester County (Part)

Rep. Kurt Masser

District 107

Republican, serving Columbia County (Part),

Montour County, Northumberland County (Part)

Rep. Daryl Metcalfe

District 12

Republican, serving Butler County (Part)

Rep. David R. Millard

District 109

Republican, serving Columbia County (Part)

Rep. Harry Readshaw

District 36

Democrat, serving Allegheny County (Part)

Rep. Will Tallman

District 193

Republican, serving Adams County (Part), York County (Part)

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SUPPORTERS

Rep. Tim Mahoney

District 51

Democrat, serving Fayette County (Part)

Rep. Todd Rock

District 90

Republican, serving Franklin County (Part)

Rep. Jerry Stern

District 80

Republican, serving Blair County (Part)

Rep. Kerry Benninghoff

District 171

Republican, serving Centre County (Part), Mifflin County (Part)

Rep. Stephen Bloom

District 199

Republican, serving Cumberland County (Part)

Rep. Susan Helm

District 104

Republican, serving Dauphin County (Part)

Rep. Jesse Topper

District 78

Republican, serving Bedford County (Part),
Fulton County, Huntingdon County (Part)

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Added, June 4, 2014
VOTED "YEA" TO PASS, OUT OF COMMITTEE

Rep. Mike Carroll
District 118
Democrat, serving Luzerne County (Part), Monroe County (Part)

Rep. Jim Christiana

District 15

Republican, serving Beaver County (Part)

Rep. James Clay, Jr.

District 179

Democrat, serving Philadelphia

Rep. Paul Clymer
District 145
Republican, serving Bucks County (Part)

Rep. Joe Emrick

District 137

Republican, serving Northampton County (Part)

Rep. Harold English

District 30

Republican, serving Allegheny County (Part)

Rep. Seth Grove

District 196

Republican, serving York County (Part)

Rep. Bernie O'Neill

District 29

Republican, serving Bucks County (Part)

Rep. Kathy L. Rapp

District 65

Republican, serving Forest County, McKean County (Part), Warren County

Rep. Mike Reese

District 59

Republican, serving in Fayette County (Part), Westmoreland County (Part)

Rep. Justin J Simmons

District 131

Republican, serving Lehigh County (Part), Northampton County (Part)

Rep. Dan Truitt

District 156

Republican, serving Chester County (Part)

Rep. Jake Wheatley Jr.

District 19

Democrat, serving Allegheny County (Part)

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ADDED SUPPORTERS AFTER JUNE 4's ED COM VOTE
[The sequence is as they come]