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Read. Follow. Verify.Pennsylvania House Bill 492 repeals state provisions regulating rodeos and rodeo-related events
Last action · May 7, 2025: Laid on the table, May 7, 2025Sponsors: Dan Deasy and 17 others
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What This Bill Proposed
An Act amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, in fiscal supplements to statutory programs, repealing provisions relating to regulation of rodeos or rodeo-related events.
Removes state-level protections that previously granted rodeo operators the right to override local municipal ordinances up to 12 days a year, returning full regulatory authority over rodeos back to local governments.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
rodeo hosting entities
They lose the statutory right to operate for up to 12 days per calendar year exempt from local municipal ordinances, rules, or regulations.
municipalities
They regain full authority to regulate or restrict rodeos and rodeo-related events without state-mandated exemptions.
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This bill did not become law - Tabled in the House.
Procedural history
4 actions- May 7, 2025HouseLaid on the table, May 7, 2025
- May 7, 2025HouseIntroducedFirst consideration, May 7, 2025
- May 7, 2025HouseCommitteeReported as committed, May 7, 2025
- Feb 5, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to APPROPRIATIONS, Feb. 5, 2025
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance15Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 15)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
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