Language was added to put a prohibition on racial and ethnic discrimination into the state constitution.
Suburban Democrat Katie Muth, citing opposition to the effort to limit the governor’s disaster powers, lamented that rolling equality language into the measure created a conflict for her.
“I believe that integrating this amendment is a false cover for what’s happening here,” Muth said.
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The same language of the bill will have to be approved by the House and Senate in the current session, and again in the next two-year legislative session that begins next year.
Then, Pennsylvania voters, and not the governor, would have the final say on two separate amendments to the state constitution.