• PA Department of Health Guidelines and Forms
  Read all about the Newborn Hearing Screening Program
• AuDs and Endz Newsletter
• PA Legislative Issues
• PAA Legislative Alerts
• PA Pending Audiology Legislation
• PA State Board of Examiners in Speech-Language and Hearing
• Status of Legislation in the Pennsylvania General Assembly
• Members of the Pennsylvania Senate
• Some Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
• Members of the United States Congress

The AuDs and Endz Newsletter is published as a service to PAA members several times a year. Elise Uhring, M.Ed., Director of Publications, is the editor of AuDs and Endz. If you have any information or would like to submit an article for publication in AuDs and Endz, please contact Elise at

114B Moore Building
PSU Speech and Hearing Clinic
University Park, PA 16802

or by phone at (814) 863-2017, or by Fax: (814) 863-3759 or by email at ean1 @ psu.edu.

Download the Fall 2007 PAA Newsletter

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Maxine Young, VP of Governmental Affairs, is responsible for your concerns about legislative issues affecting the profession of audiology within the Commonwealth. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Maxine via email at maxyoung @ sprynet.com or by calling (610) 353-6008.

Also of interest is the Pennsylvania Bulletin Online, which includes Statewide and local court rules; the Governor's Proclamations and Executive Orders; Actions by the General Assembly; Rulemakings by State agencies; Proposed Rulemakings by State agencies; and State agency notices.

February, 2005: Our newly updated Speech-Language and Hearing Licensure Act has been re-introduced as PA Senate Bill 119 of the Session of 2005.

You can download a copy here:

Ask your legislator to support it. Find your legislator here.

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Before you check the status of legislation in the Pennsylvania General Assembly you must become familiar with how to use their web page. Once you are in the site, arrow down and click on Session Information and then click on Electronic Bill Room. At this point you have two options. One option is to click on Bill Topic Index. If you do this, an alphabet bar menu will appear. Then click on H and arrow down to Hearing, then click on Hearing and you will find pending bills related to hearing. You can also use the alphabet bar to click on other letters like U for Universal Screening or C for Children, etc. The other option is stay in the Electronic Bill Room and type in the number of the bill preceded by HB for House Bill or SB for Senate Bill. For either option it is important that you choose the correct legislative session year. Once you take either option, you will arrive at a page where you can select the Bill History or the text of the Bill.

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