Following is a listing of executive and legislative action for the week from Aug. 1 through 7. Both houses of the General Assembly were in summer recess, with the state House of Representatives set to return to session Sept. 17 and the Pennsylvania Senate scheduled to reconvene Sept. 23.

Gun Violence

Gov. Tom Wolf, speaking in the wake of two high-profile mass shootings, in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, played host Aug. 7 to a bipartisan event at the Capitol Rotunda in remembrance of the victims of gun violence and as a call to action for federal and state lawmakers to take up proposals for stricter gun laws.

In a statement released Aug. 5, Wolf referenced the Tree of Life Shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue last year in addition to the mass shootings over the weekend and dozens of recent shootings in Pennsylvania cities as the most pressing reasons to take immediate action to reduce gun violence.

“Over the past few months, my administration has been consulting partners and members of the General Assembly on what more the executive branch can be doing to reduce gun violence and keep weapons from dangerous individuals,” he said. “We want to ensure we are using the full weight of the executive branch to combat this problem.”