A fight to block Gov. Tom Wolf from closing two state centers for the intellectually disabled produced a second large majority in Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature on Jan. 15, even as Wolf vowed to continue a decades-old trend away from institutional care.

The state House of Representatives voted 139-55 for legislation to prevent a governor from closing any of Pennsylvania’s four remaining state centers for at least five years, and then only with approval from an independent task force.

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