2025-2026 Policy Agenda

We advocate for proactive state legislation that will protect and advance gender justice. We also work to oppose regressive policy proposals that endanger our health, safety, privacy, and economic security. To review legislative language or check on a bill’s status, click on the bill number.

We strongly support:

HB 1140: Expanding Access to Contraceptives (Krueger) is especially urgent in light of regressive federal attacks on Pennsylvanians’ access to contraception and contraceptive medications used to treat common reproductive health conditions such as endometriosis . Pennsylvania currently has no state-level protections for contraception.

In May 2025, WLP sent Pennsylvania lawmakers a letter urging support of HB 1140.

HB 790: Codifying Emergency Abortion Care Protections for Pennsylvanians aka “the state EMTALA bill” (Shusterman) seeks to protect pregnant people in medical crisis by ensuring they can access emergency medical care in light of federal efforts to allow anti-abortion authorities to force deathly ill pregnant people into helicopters to flee to states that will treat pregnant patients with standard evidence-based care.

HB 670: State Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act (Powell) would codify a state version of a federal law protecting physicians and patients the Trump Administration has declared they will not enforce amid record-high anti-abortion violence and harassment.

HB 632: Decriminalizing HIV (Waxman) would repeal discriminatory provisions in state law that increase criminalization and/or punishment of behaviors solely based on the person’s HIV status.

The Advanced Practice Clinician bill would expand abortion access.

HB 300: The Fairness Act (Kenyatta) would enshrine LGBTQIA+ protections into state law.

HB 200: The Family Care Act (Miller) would establish statewide paid family and medical leave program in PA.

In March 2025, WLP sent Pennsylvania lawmakers a letter urging support of HB 200.

HB 630: Equal Pay (Shusterman) would update Pennsylvania’s equal pay law, which has not been updated since 1967, when it was amended to apply to fewer people.

We strongly oppose these state bills:

Senate Bill 9 (J. Ward) targets and stigmatizes transgender and gender-expansive children to restrict their participation in school-based sports.

In March 2025, WLP sent a letter to the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association explaining that its revised rules violates state and federal law.