Following is a listing of executive, legislative and electoral action for the week of April 1. Both houses of the General Assembly were in recess at press time. The Pennsylvania Senate and state House of Representatives were scheduled to return to work Monday.

Special Election

Democrats flipped a seat in the Pennsylvania Senate from red to blue April 2 as Pam Iovino, a former U.S. deputy secretary of veterans’ affairs, defeated Allegheny County Republican Chairman D. Raja in a special election to replace a GOP senator who had been elected to Congress.