Bill Title: Providing for the Office of Veteran Advocate; assigning duties to the Office of Attorney General; and authorizing an appropriation.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 37-24)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-04 - Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS [HB253 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Representative Nicholas Miccarelli [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-162	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Harry Readshaw [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-036	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kathy Rapp [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-065	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jeffrey Pyle [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-060	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Merle Phillips [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-108	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative John Payne [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-106	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Bernie O'Neill [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-029	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Michael O'Brien [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-175	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative John Myers [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-201	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Ron Miller [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-093	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Nicholas Micozzie [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-163	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Robert Mensch [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-024	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Barbara Smith [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-156	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Michael McGeehan [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-173	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Todd Rock [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-090	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Samuel Rohrer [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-128	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Vanessa Brown [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-190	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jesse White [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-046	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Katharine Watson [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-144	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Don Walko [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-020	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Randy Vulakovich [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-040	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Curtis Thomas [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-181	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative RoseMarie Swanger [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-102	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Richard Stevenson [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-008	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jerry Stern [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-080	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Timothy Solobay [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-046	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Ken Smith [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-112	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative John Siptroth [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-189	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Dante Santoni [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-126	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Ron Marsico [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-105	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Mark Longietti [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-007	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative William Kortz [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-038	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Gordon Denlinger [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-099	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Thomas Creighton [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-037	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Scott Conklin [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-077	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Mark Cohen [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-202	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Martin Causer [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-067	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Thomas Caltagirone [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-127	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Michele Brooks [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-050	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Joseph Brennan [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-133	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Scott Boyd [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-043	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Karen Beyer [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-131	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative John Bear [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-097	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Stephen Barrar [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-160	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator David Argall [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-029	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Garth Everett [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-084	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Russell Fairchild [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-085	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Robert Kauffman [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-089	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Scott Hutchinson [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-021	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Dick Hess [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-078	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Christopher Harris [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-082	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kate Harper [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-061	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Patrick Harkins [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-001	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Richard Grucela [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-137	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Neal Goodman [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-123	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Mauree Gingrich [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-101	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jaret Gibbons [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-010	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Camille George [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-074	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Richard Geist [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-079	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Michael Fleck [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-081	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative William Adolph [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-165	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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