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Pennsylvania
House Bill 78, Attorney General enforcement and private right of action
Pa. H.B. 78, sec. 10 (PN 3688)
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Proposed: draft date not recorded.
Before the second chamber, dated 25 June 2026, as of 12 September 2026.
An enforcement supervision rule binding private bodies.
As of 28 August 2026.
Where it has got to
The text described here is Printer's Number 3688, as amended by the Senate Communications and Technology Committee. That print is PN 3688, published 24 June 2026.
Locally, this stage is second consideration in the Senate.
The stage above is recorded at www.palegis.us.
House passed HB 78 (PN 1476) 127-76 on 2025-10-01. Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee reported it as committed 14-0 on 2026-02-04 and re-referred it to Communications and Technology same day; that committee re-reported it as amended (PN 3688) 11-0 on 2026-06-24. Senate gave it first consideration 2026-06-24 and second consideration 2026-06-25; no action recorded since. The 2025-2026 session runs through 2026-11-30.
What it requires
- This bill has not been enacted; do not treat its enforcement scheme as binding.
- If enacted as currently amended, expect HB 78 violations to be enforced exclusively by the Attorney General, with no private right of action available under the Act or through its unfair-trade-practice deeming clause.
If you get it wrong
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What this law does
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As amended (PN 3688), HB 78 would give the Attorney General exclusive authority to enforce the Act and would foreclose a private right of action twice over: subsection (b), strengthened by the 24 June 2026 Senate amendment, provides that nothing in the Act creates, is used as the basis or predicate for, or otherwise gives rise to a private right of action; and subsection (c) deems a violation an unfair or deceptive practice under the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law but makes that deeming enforceable exclusively by the Attorney General, closing the UDAP route the deeming clause would otherwise open, the same double-foreclosure shape as the enacted breach statute below.
This bill has not been enacted and binds nothing today.
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