Mar. 12, 2021 /
![Southeast House and Senate Republicans Announce Additional Vaccination Sites Coming to Counties]()
HARRUSBURG— The Southeast Pennsylvania Republican House and Senate delegation today applauded the Pennsylvania Health Department for taking steps to bring more vaccines to Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware and Chester counties by setting up new vaccination sites through their county governments or local health departments, and streamlining the appointment system.
Mar. 08, 2021 /
![Southeast House Republican Delegation Demands National Guard Take Over Distribution, Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine]()
HARRISBURG—The Republican Southeast House delegation today demanded the administration give the responsibility and authority for allocating and distributing the COVID-19 vaccine to the Pennsylvania National Guard.
Mar. 04, 2021 /
![Bucks Delegation to Introduce Legislation to Require COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution by Population]()
HARRISURG—Republican legislators from Bucks County have introduced legislation to require COVID-19 vaccines be distributed to counties based on population.
Jan. 28, 2021 /
![Bucks Republicans Announce Health Hearing on Vaccine Rollout]()
HARRISBURG - The Bucks County House Republican Caucus today announced that the House Health Committee will hold a hearing into COVID-19 vaccination distribution in Pennsylvania.
Jan. 27, 2021 /
![Committee Advances Staats, Labs Upskirting Bill]()
HARRISBURG - The House Judiciary Committee today advanced legislation, sponsored Bucks County Reps. Craig Staats and Shelby Labs, which takes aim at a form of child sexual abuse known as “upskirting” whereby an adult takes photos up the skirts of unsuspecting individuals and posts the images online.
Jan. 25, 2021 /
![House Committee Begins Hearings on Election Integrity]()
HARRISBURG -The House State Government Committee held the first of 14 planned public hearings on election integrity last week at the state Capitol. The intent of the hearings is not to relitigate the 2020 election, but to enable the committee to take a closer look at election laws, processes and procedures to determine if legislative action is necessary.
Jan. 12, 2021 /
![Staats Reappointed to Key House Committees in New Session]()
HARRISBURG - House Republican leaders announced committee assignments for the 2021-22 Legislative Session, reappointing Rep. Craig Staats (R-Bucks) to the Education, Finance, Liquor Control and State Government committees. Staats was also recently named a majority deputy whip in the new session.
Jan. 05, 2021 /
![Staats Takes Oath, Begins Fourth Term in PA House]()
HARRISBURG --Today, Rep. Craig Staats (R-Bucks) took the oath of office and officially began his fourth term as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Dec. 18, 2020 /
![Bucks Delegation Backs Legislation to Restore Hospitality Industry]()
HARRISBURG—The Bucks County Republican House Delegation has co-sponsored legislation crafted by Rep. Todd Polinchock (R-Chalfont) to create a new grant program to relieve Pennsylvania’s hospitality industry of the burdens precipitated by the governor’s latest restrictions.
Dec. 11, 2020 /
![Staats Named PA House Majority Deputy Whip for 2021-22]()
HARRISBURG - House Majority Whip, Rep. Donna Oberlander (R-Armstrong/Clarion/Forest), has named Rep. Craig Staats (R-Bucks) to serve as deputy whip in the 2021-22 Legislative Session, which begins in January.
Nov. 20, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – Legislation sponsored by Rep. Craig Staats (R-Bucks) to permit owners of old hotel liquor licenses to convert them to restaurant liquor licenses is now on its way to becoming law.
Nov. 18, 2020 /
![House Committee Resolution Initiates Election Audit, Staats Says]()
HARRISBURG – Today, Rep. Craig Staats (R-Bucks), a member of the House State Government Committee, said the committee passed House Resolution 1100, which directs the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee (LBFC) to coordinate a risk-limiting audit of ballots canvassed in the 2020 general election.
Nov. 13, 2020 /
![House to Examine Election Process]()
HARRISBURG – Since the Nov. 3 General Election, Rep. Craig Staats (R-Bucks) has received thousands of inquiries from constituents concerning the legitimacy of the election amid reports of voting irregularities and multiple lawsuits filed.
Sep. 23, 2020 /
![House Bill to Increase Capacity at PA Restaurants on Way to Governor]()
HARRISBURG – Today the House concurred in Senate amendments to a bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Craig Staats (R-Bucks), which would provide much-needed relief to the owners and employees of Pennsylvania’s restaurants and taverns who have been suffering under Gov. Tom Wolf’s COVID-19 mitigation orders.
Sep. 10, 2020 /
![House Committee Finds COVID-19 Hospitalizations are Down in Bucks, But Impact on Business is Still Severe]()
BENSALEM— During a hearing of the House Majority Policy Committee hosted by Rep. K.C. Tomlinson (R-Bensalem), Dr. David Damsker,?director for the?Bucks County Health Department, announced that while the number of new COVID-19 infections have increased slightly increased, hospitalizations are down.
Jul. 22, 2020 /
![Staats Urges Wolf to Sign Government Transparency Bill Unanimously Approved by General Assembly]()
HARRISBURG – Rep. Craig Staats (R-Bucks), who co-sponsored legislation to ensure government transparency during emergency declarations, is imploring Gov. Tom Wolf to sign the bill. Staats said the bill is needed because Wolf continues to keep Pennsylvania citizens in the dark during the COVID-19 pandemic – a time when information and answers are sorely needed.
Jul. 10, 2020 /
![Bucks House Delegation Demands Investigation into Failures of the Unemployment Compensation System]()
HARRISBURG- Republican House Members from Bucks County today issued a letter to House Speaker Bryan Cutler (R-Lancaster) requesting the House Government Oversight Committee conduct an investigation into the failure of the Unemployment Compensation program.
Jun. 10, 2020 /
![Staats Votes to End Statewide Disaster Emergency]()
HARRISBURG – Rep. Craig Staats (R-Bucks) voted with the bipartisan majority in the House last evening on a resolution to end Gov. Tom Wolf’s statewide emergency declaration, which would enable Pennsylvania businesses and residents to go back to work.
Jun. 04, 2020 /
![Southeast Republican Legislators Urge Wolf to Allow Youth Sports to Resume]()
HARRISBURG - As Southeastern counties are now expected to be moving into the yellow phase, a bicameral group of Southeast legislators sent a letter to Gov. Tom Wolf urging the reopening of youth sports which are able to follow social distancing and safety guidelines.
May. 20, 2020 /
![Bucks County House Republicans Introduce Legislation to Give Counties Power to Safely Reopen]()
HARRISBURG—Rep. Frank Farry (R-Langhorne) has introduced House Bill 2541 to allow local county commissioners, in consultation with local health officials, to reopen businesses in counties during a health emergency if certain criteria are met.