Jun. 23, 2022 /
![PA House Approves Rapp Legislation to Protect Landowners, High-Valued Farmlands Against Long-Term Wind and Solar Liabilities]()
HARRISBURG — Sponsored by Rep. Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/ Forest), legislation seeking to protect landowners and high-valued farmlands against long-term liabilities associated with wind and solar energy development was approved 121-79 by the Pennsylvania House on Tuesday.
Jun. 06, 2022 /
![House ERE, Health Committees to Examine Modern Medicine, Health Care Impacts of Oil and Natural Gas Byproducts]()
WHAT: PA House Environmental Resources and Energy (ERE) Committee Chairman Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) and House Health Committee Chair Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/Forest) will convene a joint public hearing focusing on Oil and Natural Gas Byproducts: Powering Modern Medicine and our Health Care System.
May. 04, 2022 /
![House Health Committee Chair Rapp Confirms Legislature is Already Well-Positioned for Overturning Roe v. Wade]()
WARREN — PA House Health Committee Majority Chair Rep. Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/ Forest) issued the following statement in response to the leaked draft opinion indicating that the U.S. Supreme Court may overturn Roe. v. Wade:
Apr. 26, 2022 /
![Rapp Legislation to Protect Landowners, High-Valued Farmlands Against Wind and Solar Liabilities Advances for PA House Consideration]()
HARRISBURG — Sponsored by Rep. Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/ Forest), legislation seeking to protect landowners and high-valued farmlands against long-term liabilities associated with wind and solar energy development was reported out of the House Environmental Resources and Energy (ERE) committee on Tuesday.
Apr. 22, 2022 /
![Rapp Confirms $3.7 Million Emergency Room Modernization Grant for Warren General Hospital]()
WARREN — PA House Health Committee Majority Chair Rep. Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/ Forest) and Sen. Scott Hutchinson (R-21) announced today that a $3.7 million grant from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) has been awarded to Warren General Hospital for the modernization and expansion of the facility’s emergency room.
Apr. 11, 2022 /
![Rapp, House Health Committee to Examine Opioids in the Commonwealth: Lessons Learned and Next Steps]()
WHAT: PA House Health Committee Majority Chair Kathy L. Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/Forest) will convene a public hearing focusing on Opioids in the Commonwealth: Lessons Learned and Next Steps.
Feb. 14, 2022 /
![Rapp Announces More Than $381,500 to Support Local First Responders]()
WARREN — Rep. Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/Forest) announced today that 30 fire departments and ambulance organizations throughout Crawford, Forest and Warren counties have been awarded approximately $381,541 from a grant program administered by the Office of the State Fire Commissioner.
Feb. 04, 2022 /
![Rapp, House Health Committee to Consider COVID Infection Medication Act]()
WHAT: PA House Health Committee Majority Chair Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/Forest) will convene a voting meeting to consider the following legislation:
Jan. 27, 2022 /
![Rapp Confirms $1.9 Million in Critical Behavioral Health/Rural Hospital Retention Funding for Warren, Crawford and Forest Counties]()
WARREN — PA House Health Committee Majority Chairman Rep. Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/ Forest) applauded both her House and Senate colleagues for working together to enact legislation that will deliver a critical $225 million infusion of federal funding (House Bill 253) to aid hospitals, behavioral health centers, rural healthcare facilities and other frontline health care workers who continue to provide high-quality, life-saving care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jan. 19, 2022 /
![Telemedicine, Recruitment Incentives, Reimbursements Key to Maintaining Rural Health Care Access, Say Causer, Rapp]()
HARRISBURG – To best meet the health care challenges facing Pennsylvania’s rural communities, an expansion of telemedicine options, enhanced recruitment incentives and increased reimbursements are top priorities, according to rural health care leaders testifying before a legislative panel on Wednesday.
Jan. 14, 2022 /
![Causer, Rapp to Chair Hearing in Bradford to Discuss Rural Health Challenges]()
WHAT: Rep. Martin Causer (R-Cameron/McKean/Potter), chairman of the House Majority Policy Committee, and Rep. Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/Forest), chair of the House Health Committee, are hosting a hearing to discuss rural health care challenges and solutions.
Jan. 12, 2022 /
![Causer, Rapp Host Policy Committee Hearing in Bradford to Discuss Rural Health Care Challenges, Solutions]()
HARRISBURG – Recognizing the need to ensure quality health care remains available to citizens across rural Pennsylvania, House Majority Policy Committee Chairman Martin Causer (R-Cameron/McKean/Potter) and House Health Committee Chair Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/Forest) will host a public hearing in Bradford next week to discuss rural health care challenges and proposed solutions.
Dec. 10, 2021 /
![Health Committee Chair Rapp to Convene Hearing on Effectiveness/Risks of COVID-19 Treatment Options]()
WHAT: PA House Health Committee Majority Chair Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/Forest) will convene a public hearing to receive testimony regarding COVID-19 treatment options.
Nov. 10, 2021 /
![Rapp Applauds Commonwealth Court’s Checks and Balances Based Decision to Overturn School Mask Mandate]()
HARRISBURG – House Health Committee Majority Chair Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/Forest) issued the following statement in response to today’s Commonwealth Court decision to overturn acting Health Secretary Alison Beam’s statewide school masking mandate:
Oct. 21, 2021 /
![Rapp Dismisses Committee on Documents Decision Not to Subject Statewide School Mask Mandate to Regulatory Review Act]()
HARRISBURG – House Health Committee Majority Chair Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/Forest) issued the following statement today in response to the Commonwealth Joint Committee on Document’s ruling that acting Health Secretary Alison Beam’s statewide school masking mandate is not a regulation or subject to Pennsylvania’s Regulatory Review Act.
Sep. 13, 2021 /
![PA House Health Committee to Consider Regulatory Review Act Challenge to School Mask Mandate]()
WHAT: PA House Health Committee Majority Chair Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/Forest) will convene a voting meeting to adopt a letter requesting a determination from the Commonwealth Joint Committee on Documents on whether the acting Health secretary’s K-12 schools and child care centers indoor masking mandate is subject to the regulatory process and the Regulatory Review Act.
Sep. 09, 2021 /
![Republican Leaders Request More Detailed COVID-19 Data from Wolf Administration]()
HARRISBURG – The Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania General Assembly—President Pro Tempore Jake Corman (R-Centre/Mifflin/Juniata/Huntingdon), Speaker of the House Bryan Cutler (R-Lancaster), Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward (R-Westmoreland), and House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin)—wrote a letter joined by Senate Health and Human Services Chairman Michele Brooks (R-Crawford/Erie/Mercer/Warren) and House Health Committee Chairman Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/Forest) to Gov. Tom Wolf and Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam seeking more specific COVID-19 data from the Wolf administration.
Jul. 22, 2021 /
![Rapp Announces More Than $425,500 Awarded to Local First Responders]()
WARREN — Rep. Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/Forest) announced today that 39 fire departments and ambulance organizations throughout Crawford, Forest and Warren counties have been awarded approximately $425,535 from a grant program administered by the Office of the State Fire Commissioner.
Jul. 01, 2021 /
![Health Committee Chair Rapp’s Essential Caregivers Legislation Signed Into Law]()
New law seeks to safely return family members to long-term care facilities to assist with care and support of vulnerable loved ones
Jun. 07, 2021 /
![Health Committee Chair Rapp’s Full Lyme Disease Coverage Legislation Advances for Second Straight Session]()
HARRISBURG – For the second consecutive session, legislation sponsored by House Health Committee Chair Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/Forest) that would require health insurers to cover treatment plans for Lyme disease or related tick-borne illnesses as prescribed by a patient’s health care practitioner (House Bill 1033) was advanced in the Pennsylvania House today by a solid bipartisan vote of 136-66.