Chris Rabb
Democratic · PA · Pennsylvania State Representative for District 200
Chris Rabb has represented part of northwest Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania House since 2017 and has taught at Temple University. He wants stronger worker and voting rights and guaranteed access to health care and housing.
Where Chris Rabb stands, based on their records
Supports
Environment and Public Health (11 records), Reduce Wealth Gap (2 records), Labor Rights (6 records),
Opposes
Government Spending Reduction (9 records)
Track record
Track record — Environment and Public Health
Environment and Public Health · 11 support
Helped pass a bipartisan House bill to authorize alkaline hydrolysis as a form of cremation. Also did the same on May 2, 2024.
October 1, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: pahouse.com
Advanced his HB 2525 bill against deceptive environmental marketing through the House Judiciary Committee.
October 2, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: pahouse.com
Also on this bill
- August 1, 2024 · Introduced HB 2525 to bar deceptive environmental marketing claims by corporations. (Supports Corporate Accountability, Supports Environment and Public Health)
Introduced HB 2525 to bar deceptive environmental marketing claims by corporations.
August 1, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: pahouse.com
Also on this bill
- October 2, 2024 · Advanced his HB 2525 bill against deceptive environmental marketing through the House Judiciary Committee. (Supports Corporate Accountability, Supports Environment and Public Health)
Testified at a House committee meeting on his bill to establish urban agricultural incentive zones.
July 16, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: pahouse.com
Joined state officials at a public news conference on legislation to protect Pennsylvania pollinators.
June 20, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: pahouse.com
Added an amendment to a House Finance Committee bill to include clean-energy startups in impacted communities.
June 12, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: pahouse.com
Advanced his HR 224 resolution for an agrivoltaic-farming study through the House Local Government Committee.
November 15, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: pahouse.com
Passed his HB 295 soil-and-plant amendment updates unanimously through the Pennsylvania House.
May 23, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: pahouse.com
Co-introduced legislation to set zero-emission standards for space and water heaters.
May 19, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: pahouse.com
Participated in a House environmental-justice hearing focused on underserved communities.
October 5, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: pahouse.com
Unveiled HB 2132 at a Capitol news conference to transition Pennsylvania to 100 percent renewable electricity by 2050.
April 18, 2018Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: blog.princelaw.com
Track record — Reduce Wealth Gap
Reduce Wealth Gap · 2 support
Added an amendment to a House Finance Committee bill to include clean-energy startups in impacted communities.
June 12, 2024Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: pahouse.com
Co-sponsored the Fair Share Tax Plan to change Pennsylvania's taxation of wages and passive income.
February 14, 2022Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: pahouse.com
Track record — Labor Rights
Labor Rights · 6 support
Filed an amendment to HB 1549 to extend the minimum wage to excluded workers and end the tipped subminimum wage.
June 11, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Joined city and state officials in publicly supporting the University of Pennsylvania postdoctoral workers' union.
April 30, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced HB 1135 to raise the minimum wage and end the tipped subminimum wage.
April 10, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced legislation to study a four-day workweek for Pennsylvania state employees.
March 21, 2022Supports Labor Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Got his worker-cooperative eligibility language enacted in Act 37's micro-enterprise loan program.
June 30, 2021Supports Labor Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Reintroduced legislation to raise the minimum wage to $15 and expand worker eligibility.
March 12, 2021Supports Labor Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Track record — Anti-Corruption
Anti-Corruption · 1 support
Co-introduced legislation to increase penalties for Pennsylvania campaign-finance violations.
August 21, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: pahouse.com
Track record — Government Efficiency
Government Efficiency · 1 support
Won House adoption of his HR 113 resolution to study police body-camera footage practices.
May 8, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: pahouse.com
Track record — Government Spending Reduction
Government Spending Reduction · 9 oppose
Secured a $750,000 state grant for accessibility renovations at the Sedgwick Theater in Philadelphia.
September 15, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced HB 2405 to establish a Freedom School Grant Program.
June 11, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: pahouse.com
Secured $500,000 in state grant funding for Wissahickon Valley Park improvements.
October 27, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: pahouse.com
Got his worker-cooperative eligibility language enacted in Act 37's micro-enterprise loan program.
June 30, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced legislation to distribute all Pennsylvania public-school funding through an equity formula.
June 9, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced HB 2957 to create a PennCorps mental-health response service.
October 29, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced legislation offering grants and tax credits to restaurants selling Pennsylvania-grown food in underserved neighborhoods.
October 1, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced HB 2745 to compensate people for years of wrongful incarceration.
August 5, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced HB 961 to distribute all Pennsylvania public-school funding through the fair-funding formula.
June 12, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: wgal.com
Track record — Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties · 11 support
Advanced his HB 131 police-misconduct database reform bill through the House Judiciary Committee. Also did the same on October 3, 2023.
June 17, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: pahouse.com
Advanced his HB 99 bill to abolish Pennsylvania's death penalty through the House Judiciary Committee.
April 27, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: pahouse.com
Voted in the House Judiciary Committee to advance HB 1902 and HB 1905, two anti-hate-crime bills.
March 10, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced legislation to protect unimpaired medical-cannabis patients from DUI penalties based only on cannabis traces.
March 12, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: pahouse.com
Called for a public investigation into the University of Pennsylvania police raid on students' homes.
October 31, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: pahouse.com
Co-introduced HB 1923 to limit transfers of military-grade equipment to local police.
September 27, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: pahouse.com
Co-introduced legislation to protect unimpaired medical-cannabis patients from DUI penalties based on cannabis traces.
September 21, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: pahouse.com
Reintroduced legislation to repeal Pennsylvania's death penalty.
April 6, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced legislation to require pre-sentence investigation reports before sentencing.
September 30, 2020Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: pahouse.com
Got his prohibition on police officers' sexual activity with people in custody signed into Pennsylvania law.
July 23, 2020Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: pahouse.com
Advanced his prohibition on police officers' sexual activity with people in custody through both legislative chambers.
July 7, 2020Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: pahouse.com
Track record — Social Programs and Welfare
Social Programs and Welfare · 17 support
Announced a $500,000 grant to restart a Mount Airy violence-prevention initiative.
April 15, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Advanced his bipartisan HB 1406 deed-fraud bill unanimously through the Senate Judiciary Committee.
September 9, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Also on this bill
- June 24, 2025 · Passed his bipartisan HB 1406 deed-fraud bill unanimously through the Pennsylvania House. (Supports Social Programs and Welfare)
Passed his bipartisan HB 1406 deed-fraud bill unanimously through the Pennsylvania House.
June 24, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Also on this bill
- September 9, 2025 · Advanced his bipartisan HB 1406 deed-fraud bill unanimously through the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Supports Social Programs and Welfare)
Passed his bipartisan HB 1498 heirs-property protections bill through the Pennsylvania House. Filed the same bill in earlier sessions: HB 2232 (2024).
June 23, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Also on this bill
- June 4, 2025 · Advanced his HB 1498 heirs-property bill and HB 1406 deed-fraud bill through a House committee. (Supports Social Programs and Welfare)
Advanced his HB 1498 heirs-property bill and HB 1406 deed-fraud bill through a House committee.
June 4, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Also on this bill
- June 23, 2025 · Passed his bipartisan HB 1498 heirs-property protections bill through the Pennsylvania House. Filed the same bill in earlier sessions: HB 2232 (2024). (Supports Social Programs and Welfare)
Introduced bipartisan heirs-property legislation to protect families from forced sales of inherited homes.
May 27, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced bipartisan legislation with Rep. Tim Bonner to make deed fraud a second-degree felony.
May 6, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Passed his utility reconnection-fee protections as part of HB 1077 through the Pennsylvania House.
October 2, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced HB 2405 to establish a Freedom School Grant Program.
June 11, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Co-introduced HB 2232 to protect heirs of property owners who died without a will.
April 25, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced legislation to distribute all Pennsylvania public-school funding through an equity formula.
June 9, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Joined a coalition calling for action on unsafe Philadelphia school-building conditions.
February 8, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced HB 2957 to create a PennCorps mental-health response service.
October 29, 2020Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced legislation offering grants and tax credits to restaurants selling Pennsylvania-grown food in underserved neighborhoods.
October 1, 2020Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced HB 2745 to compensate people for years of wrongful incarceration.
August 5, 2020Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Joined Philadelphia lawmakers in asking the governor to stop utility shutoffs during the COVID-19 emergency.
March 12, 2020Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced HB 961 to distribute all Pennsylvania public-school funding through the fair-funding formula.
June 12, 2019Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: wgal.com
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 14 support
Introduced HB 2776 to set religious-neutrality standards in Pennsylvania public schools.
September 16, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced HB 2767 to audit equal-opportunity practices of state contractors and grant recipients.
September 14, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Advanced his HB 1671 restorative-justice bill through the House Judiciary Committee. Also did the same on June 28, 2024.
January 28, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced legislation to end the practice of charging children as adults in Pennsylvania. Filed the same bill in earlier sessions: in 2022.
May 22, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Advanced his and Rep. Jared Solomon's open-primaries bill through the House State Government Committee. Also did the same on October 17, 2023.
May 13, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Reintroduced a bill for Pennsylvania to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
April 9, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Joined House Democrats in a public call to advance ten juvenile-justice reform bills.
March 18, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Co-introduced HB 2662 for Pennsylvania to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
November 12, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Advanced his HB 999 death-penalty repeal bill through the House Judiciary Committee.
October 31, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced legislation to adjust dollar thresholds for criminal offenses automatically with inflation.
June 7, 2022Supports Civil Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced legislation to replace the Columbus Day state holiday with an Election Day holiday.
October 7, 2021Supports Civil Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced three bills protecting medical-cannabis patients and dispensaries from housing and workplace discrimination.
April 20, 2021Supports Civil Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced legislation for Pennsylvania to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
November 19, 2020Supports Civil Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced HB 2532 to extend mail-ballot receipt deadlines during declared disaster emergencies.
May 18, 2020Supports Civil Rights
Source: pahouse.com
Track record — Corporate Accountability
Corporate Accountability · 7 support
Introduced HB 2767 to audit equal-opportunity practices of state contractors and grant recipients.
September 14, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: pahouse.com
Passed his HB 1599 electric-utility voting transparency bill through the Pennsylvania House.
July 1, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: pahouse.com
Co-authored HB 782 to require utilities to disclose their votes in the PJM electric grid operator.
March 4, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: pahouse.com
Advanced his HB 2525 bill against deceptive environmental marketing through the House Judiciary Committee.
October 2, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: pahouse.com
Also on this bill
- August 1, 2024 · Introduced HB 2525 to bar deceptive environmental marketing claims by corporations. (Supports Corporate Accountability, Supports Environment and Public Health)
Introduced HB 2525 to bar deceptive environmental marketing claims by corporations.
August 1, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: pahouse.com
Also on this bill
- October 2, 2024 · Advanced his HB 2525 bill against deceptive environmental marketing through the House Judiciary Committee. (Supports Corporate Accountability, Supports Environment and Public Health)
Introduced legislation to protect consumers from abusive rent-to-own contracts.
March 31, 2022Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced legislation to establish labeling and regulatory standards for CBD products.
September 30, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: pahouse.com
Track record — Public Infrastructure
Public Infrastructure · 4 support
Secured a $750,000 state grant for accessibility renovations at the Sedgwick Theater in Philadelphia.
September 15, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: pahouse.com
Announced a $500,000 state investment in critical upgrades at the Sedgwick Theater.
July 16, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: pahouse.com
Announced $42,500 in state grants awarded to a local Philadelphia park.
January 16, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: pahouse.com
Secured $500,000 in state grant funding for Wissahickon Valley Park improvements.
October 27, 2022Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: pahouse.com
Track record — General
General · 22 records
Added an ability-to-pay amendment to HB 2443, the Child Victim Recovery Fund bill, which passed the House.
June 17, 2026
Source: pahouse.com
Voted against HB 1616, a child-trafficking sentencing bill, citing concerns with its approach while supporting its aim.
June 16, 2026
Source: pahouse.com
Voted against HB 910 and HB 2443 in the House Judiciary Committee, citing concerns about criminalizing poverty and funding child-victim services through fines.
May 4, 2026
Source: pahouse.com
Received U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's endorsement in the 2026 PA-3 Democratic primary.
April 24, 2026
Source: inquirer.com
Received 2026 PA-3 primary endorsements from the Working Families Party and Justice Democrats.
March 19, 2026
Source: workingfamilies.org
Reported suspected unauthorized withdrawals by his congressional campaign treasurer to the Federal Election Commission.
February 13, 2026
Source: inquirer.com
Advanced his HB 2047 and HB 2048 local-journalism and civic-information bills through a House committee.
February 4, 2026
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced HB 2047 and HB 2048 to support local journalism and civic information.
December 17, 2025
Source: pahouse.com
Reintroduced HB 123 to let Pennsylvania counties and municipalities adopt ranked-choice voting.
November 5, 2025
Source: pahouse.com
Advanced his HB 468 Emancipation Day bill through the House State Government Committee.
October 28, 2025
Source: pahouse.com
Reintroduced legislation to designate the first Monday in February as Pennsylvania Emancipation Day.
February 3, 2025
Source: pahouse.com
Convened a House Judiciary subcommittee meeting on restorative-justice practices.
April 30, 2024
Source: pahouse.com
Was appointed to Pennsylvania's Interbranch Commission for Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness.
March 13, 2024
Source: pahouse.com
Hosted death-row exoneree Noel Montalvo at the Capitol for a discussion of wrongful incarceration and the death penalty.
February 5, 2024
Source: pahouse.com
Was elected to the Pennsylvania Progressive Caucus's five-person leadership board.
May 23, 2023
Source: pahouse.com
Co-introduced a constitutional amendment and criminal-law bill addressing seditious conspiracy by public officials.
June 8, 2022
Source: pahouse.com
Was unanimously reappointed chair of the Pennsylvania House Democratic Caucus Equity Committee.
April 6, 2022
Source: pahouse.com
Held a public briefing with Americans for Safe Access on Pennsylvania's medical-cannabis laws.
February 24, 2022
Source: pahouse.com
Introduced a resolution to make February 3 Pennsylvania Emancipation Day.
February 3, 2022
Source: pahouse.com
Co-introduced legislation to study the costs and benefits of electric vehicles in Pennsylvania.
April 12, 2021
Source: pahouse.com
Voted against HB 14's proposed constitutional amendment on a civil-lawsuit window for childhood sexual-abuse survivors, citing lack of a public hearing.
January 27, 2021
Source: pahouse.com
Held a House Democratic Policy Committee hearing in Philadelphia on voting and elections.
February 25, 2020
Source: pahouse.com
Past race Chris Rabb ran in:
- United States Representative, Congressional District 3 · November 3, 2026 · Congressional District 3, Pennsylvania