Following is a listing of executive and legislative action from June 28 and the week of July 1. The General Assembly is in recess for summer, with the state House of Representatives scheduled to return to session Sept. 17 and the Pennsylvania Senate coming back to the Capitol on Sept. 23.

Hearsay Exception

Gov. Tom Wolf signed into law a measure that extends the “tender-years” hearsay exception to allow statements from persons with intellectual disabilities or autism to be accepted into evidence without them sitting on the witness stand in criminal cases.

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