Dec. 28, 2021 /
![House Republicans to Hold Hearings on Preliminary State House Map]()
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) and House Majority Policy Committee Chairman Martin Causer (R-Cameron/McKean/Potter) Tuesday announced that the caucus will be holding field hearings on the preliminary state House map approved by the three Democratic members of the Legislative Reapportionment Commission earlier this month.
Dec. 15, 2021 /
![Benninghoff Votes to Support Lower Energy Prices, Save Energy Sector Jobs in Pennsylvania]()
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) Wednesday voted to support lower energy prices and save energy sector jobs in Pennsylvania by advancing to the governor a resolution that would stop Pennsylvania’s entry into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a carbon tax program.
Dec. 13, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff applauded the passage of legislation that will help break down the barriers to broadband deployment in underserved and unserved areas of Pennsylvania.
Dec. 10, 2021 /
PA Supreme Court strikes down school masking order
Dec. 06, 2021 /
![Benninghoff, Corman Announce Significant State Grant for Centre Volunteers in Medicine]()
BELLEFONTE – Rep. Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) and Sen. Jake Corman (R-Centre/Mifflin/Juniata/Huntingdon) announced Centre Volunteers in Medicine (CVIM), a clinic providing eligible county residents with free medical and dental care, will be receiving a $1 million state grant.
Nov. 19, 2021 /
![Benninghoff Announces Grant Awards for Centre, Mifflin Counties]()
Grant funding to go toward road, recreation and Main Street improvements
Nov. 18, 2021 /
![Benninghoff Applauds Action on Bipartisan Broadband Agreement]()
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to unanimously adopt an amendment that reflects a bipartisan agreement on legislation sponsored by Rep. Martin Causer (R-McKean/Cameron/Potter) to improve broadband deployment across unserved and underserved areas of Pennsylvania.
Nov. 17, 2021 /
![Benninghoff: House Passes Legislation to Help Make Pennsylvania Communities Safer]()
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania House of Representatives this week passed a package of bills that would stand up for public safety officials and help ensure Pennsylvania communities are protected from crime and unnecessary violence.
Nov. 16, 2021 /
![House Passes Legislation to Guarantee Constitutional Rights of Gun Owners, Benninghoff Says]()
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation that would protect the constitutional right of Pennsylvanians to carry firearms by removing the need to obtain a permit to carry a concealed firearm.
Nov. 16, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation to stop the current Wolf administration plan to toll nine bridges across Pennsylvania and reassert the Legislature’s oversight of, and community involvement in, future plans by the P3 board to implement tolling of state bridges and roads across Pennsylvania.
Nov. 04, 2021 /
![Benninghoff to Host Veterans Recognition Breakfast]()
CENTRE HALL – Rep. Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) announced he will be hosting a veterans’ recognition breakfast on Nov. 12, starting at 9 a.m.
Nov. 01, 2021 /
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HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday that his administration will be giving employees under his jurisdiction an additional five days of paid leave to be used between Dec. 20, 2021, and March 31, 2022, for showing proof of COVID-19 vaccination. If the five accrued days are not used, administration employees will be paid out the remainder of the leave time in a lump sum payment.
Oct. 25, 2021 /
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HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) voted at Monday’s meeting of the Legislative Reapportionment Commission against certifying the data affected by recently adopted prisoner reallocation proposals that will be used for state legislative redistricting.
Oct. 22, 2021 /
![Benninghoff to Host Agriculture Breakfast]()
CENTRE HALL – Rep. Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) announced he will be hosting a free agriculture breakfast on Friday, Oct. 29, for farmers and those interested in hearing the latest updates from state and federal officials on agriculture-related issues.
Oct. 14, 2021 /
![Benninghoff’s Centre County Shredder Event Postponed]()
BELLEFONTE – A paper shredding event scheduled to be hosted by Pennsylvania State Rep. Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) in Centre County on Oct. 23 has been postponed until 2022.
Oct. 06, 2021 /
![Benninghoff: House Republican Caucus Continues to Deliver for the People of Pennsylvania]()
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) addressed the media Wednesday and noted the significant proposals passed by the House that delivered for the people of Pennsylvania.
Sep. 29, 2021 /
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) said Wednesday that House Bill 1861, legislation sponsored by Rep. Andrew Lewis (R-Dauphin) that deals with the nearly 500 regulations waived and suspended as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, is heading to the governor.
Sep. 21, 2021 /
![Benninghoff Supports Extension of Ida Disaster Emergency Declaration]()
HARRISBURG – House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) on Tuesday voted in support of House Resolution 139, which would extend the provisions of Gov. Tom Wolf’s Aug. 31 disaster emergency declaration relative to the aftereffects of Tropical Storm Ida.
Sep. 21, 2021 /
![Benninghoff Votes for Greater Information Sharing to Help Combat Opioid Epidemic]()
HARRISBURG – House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) on Tuesday voted in support of an amendment to House Bill 1774 that would allow for increased information sharing between departments of material from the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program as a tool to help the Commonwealth combat the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic.
Sep. 21, 2021 /
![Benninghoff Supports Ward Resolution on Prisoner Reallocation]()
HARRISBURG – House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) on Tuesday morning voted in support of a resolution offered by Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward (R-Westmoreland) during a meeting of the Legislative Reapportionment Commission that would put additional guidelines on how prisoner reallocation data is to be compiled and counted by, among other things, ensuring that individuals incarcerated to a minimum sentence expiring after April 1, 2030, will be counted at the prison at which they reside.