{"id":295960,"date":"2026-09-29T03:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295960\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T03:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:56:16","slug":"pennsylvania-lawmakers-push-gift-ban-bill-to-house-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295960\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania lawmakers push gift ban bill to House floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania lawmakers push gift ban bill to House floor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe\" aria-label=\"Lori Burkholder profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790654176_265_003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe_1654041445.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Lori Burkholder\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Lawmakers in Harrisburg are taking action to advance a stalled gift ban bill by filing a request to bring it out of committee and onto the House floor.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The bill, introduced in 2025 by Representative Jared Solomon, calls for ethics reform by prohibiting cash gifts and gifts with a monetary value over $50.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">\u201cThis bill eliminates cash gifts, all cash gifts. It puts forth very substantial restrictions on personal gifts, such as travel, sporting event tickets and individual meals, none of which are necessary for us to perform our jobs as legislators in Harrisburg,\u201d Representative Mike Jones said.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Jones said the goal of this move is to force a vote on the bill, which he described as having &#8220;unique&#8221; bipartisan backing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania lawmakers push gift ban bill to House floor Lawmakers in Harrisburg are taking action to advance a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[122396,122403,122400,22306,122397,11174,37,122393,101627,122399,1820,45790,2285,28,30,9318,29,122401,122394,122395,122398,122402],"class_list":["post-295960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-bipartisan-backing","tag-ethic-reform","tag-event-ticket","tag-gift","tag-gift-ban-bill","tag-goal","tag-harrisburg","tag-harrisburg-lawmakers","tag-house-floor","tag-individual-meal","tag-job","tag-legislator","tag-none","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-lawmaker","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-personal-gift","tag-representative-jared-solomon","tag-representative-mike-jones","tag-stalled-gift-ban-bill","tag-substantial-restriction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}