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Chris Gebhard Voting Record & Scorecard | Christian Employers Alliance

PA Senator

District: 48 • Republican

2024 Alignment:

57.14%

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Sen. Chris Gebhard (R-PA-48) earned a 57% Christian Employers Alliance score for 2024, showing moderate alignment with biblical business policy positions. Chris Gebhard voted on 16 of the 17 key bills CEA scored in 2024. Chris Gebhard represents the 48th District in the Pennsylvania State Senate. Highest category scores: Workforce Freedom (100%), Operational Freedom (88%), and Economic Freedom (38%).

Title

Lawmaker Position

HB 1032Senate 20242x

Advancing a Politicized Environmental Agenda by Forcing Taxpayers to Subsidize Solar Energy Projects for Schools and Community Colleges.

Against CEA
This bill establishes the Solar for Schools grant program to provide funds to eligible public school districts, intermediate units, career and technical schools, and community colleges to purchase and install a solar energy project. Under the bill, schools can receive funding to cover up to 50% of the total cost of a solar project, and all solar projects must meet prevailing wage requirements.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Isaiah 55:2 – "Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare."
Leadership Insight
God challenges wasteful spending and misdirected labor that produces no lasting value. Economic freedom means the liberty to invest resources in Kingdom purposes without government mandates dictating consumption. Leaders who reduce unnecessary taxation and regulation allow individuals to steward earnings toward what truly satisfies - family, faith, and generational wealth rather than bureaucratic waste.
HB 1633Senate 20241x

Infringing Private Contracting Rights and Reducing Employment Opportunities in Healthcare by Banning Noncompetition Agreements.

Against CEA
This bill, the "Fair Contracting for Health Care Practitioners Act," prohibits nearly all noncompetition agreements in the state entered into by health care practitioners and employers. However, the bill does allow noncompete agreements of up to 1 year if the employee was not dismissed.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Matthew 20:13-15 – "But he answered one of them, 'I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'"
Leadership Insight
Jesus affirms the landowner's absolute right to manage his property without external interference. Economic freedom is rooted in the biblical principle that owners - not governments or envious neighbors - determine how resources are allocated. Leaders who defend property rights protect the foundation of free enterprise: voluntary agreements honored without coercion.
HB 1820Senate 20241x

Slightly Reducing the State's Overreaching Cosmetology Licensing Mandates and Expanding Competition by Exempting "Natural Hair Braiders" from Licensure.

With CEA
This bill exempts individuals providing "natural hair brading" from the state's cosmetology license requirements.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
2 Thessalonians 3:10 – "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat."
Leadership Insight
God honors productivity, not passivity. Work is not punishment - it’s purpose. A culture that rewards laziness erodes dignity and independence.
HB 1853Senate 20241x

Growing Government Interference in the Healthcare Industry by Mandating Unnecessary Bureaucratic Meetings for Nursing Facilities.

Against CEA
This bill requires that Department of Health nursing care field officers conduct an annual meeting with long-term care nursing facilities. This meeting is designed to "promote cooperation and communication" between long-term care nursing facilities and the department.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Galatians 5:1 – "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."
Leadership Insight
Freedom is not the absence of restraint; it is the presence of divine purpose. Christ purchased liberty not for comfort but for courage. A free leader under God becomes unshakable, even when culture shifts.
HB 1993Senate 20241x

Growing Government Regulatory Power within the Pharmaceutical Industry by Imposing a Series of New Mandates on Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs).

Against CEA
This bill imposes a series of new regulations on Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). For example, PBMs are required to pass at least 95% of all manufacturer rebates through to the insurance plan, may not reimburse non PBM-affiliated retail pharmacies less than PBM-affiliated ones, and may not require the use of mail-order pharmacies. The nation witnessed first-hand the disastrous consequences and cost of growing government regulatory power in healthcare (i.e. Obamacare).
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Romans 14:3-4 – "The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall."
Leadership Insight
Paul's protection of conscience applies directly to healthcare freedom. No government or employer has authority to mandate medical treatments, vaccines, or procedures that violate sincere religious or moral conviction. Healthcare freedom means patients and providers can follow conscience in medical decisions without coercion, contempt, or punishment. When healthcare mandates override conscience, they violate the biblical principle that each person is accountable to their own Master.
HB 2268Senate 20241x

Hiking Health Insurance Premiums by Mandating All Policies Cover Speech Therapy for Stuttering.

Against CEA
This bill requires all health insurance policies in the state to offer coverage for habilitative speech therapy treatment and rehabilitative speech therapy treatment for childhood stuttering. Each and every health insurance mandate or price control on co-payments prevents an individual from selecting a plan with just basic or customized coverages to fit their specific needs. As a result, health insurers are forced to only offer costly plans loaded with coverages that most individuals do not need.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Romans 14:3-4 – "The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall."
Leadership Insight
Paul's protection of conscience applies directly to healthcare freedom. No government or employer has authority to mandate medical treatments, vaccines, or procedures that violate sincere religious or moral conviction. Healthcare freedom means patients and providers can follow conscience in medical decisions without coercion, contempt, or punishment. When healthcare mandates override conscience, they violate the biblical principle that each person is accountable to their own Master.
HB 450Senate 20241x

Bolstering Cronyism and Government Central Planning by Extending Grant Funding to Hire a "Main Street Manager" for an Additional 5 Years.

Against CEA
This bill extends, for an additional 5 years, the maximum length of grants for administrative costs of hiring a "Main Street Manager" under the "Main Street Act". The "Main Street Act" provides grants for infrasture and housing projects in downtown areas, and provides competitive advantages to businesses located in these areas through marketing and promotion of the area.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Deuteronomy 17:14-20 – "The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself... He must not take many wives... He must not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites."
Leadership Insight
God restricts leaders to protect their integrity and the people's freedom. Limits on power preserve liberty. Leaders who reject accountability invite corruption. Humility before God and equality before the people are marks of righteous governance.
HB 613Senate 20243x

Fueling Out-of-Control Spending by Providing 5 "State-Related" Universities with Over $642 Million in Taxpayer Funds.

With CEA
This bill appropriates over $642 million in taxpayer funds to five "state-related" universities: Pennsylvania State University, University of Pittsburgh, Temple University, Lincoln University, and the University of Pennsylvania. The funds are for various purposes, such as general support, "rural education outreach," and "veterinary activities."
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Haggai 1:6 – "You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it."
Leadership Insight
When priorities drift from purpose, prosperity leaks away. God doesn’t bless motion - He blesses alignment. Economic freedom begins when stewardship follows divine order.
SB 1001Senate 20243x

Fueling Out-of-Control Spending Through Increased Funding for Crony Economic Development Programs, Medicaid Expansion, and More.

Against CEA
This bill appropriates funds for the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government during FY 2024-25. Most notably, the bill provides an over $1.1 billion increase for school districts, $15 million in additional funding for free pre-kindergarten, and over $3 billion for required contributions for public school employees' retirement (a 3.14% increase). The bill also appropriates $55 million for tourism marketing and $45 million for keystone communities' grants.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Luke 16:10-11 – "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?"
Leadership Insight
Jesus connects economic stewardship to spiritual trustworthiness. Economic freedom is built on this principle: individuals who manage small resources faithfully should be trusted with more - not have government confiscate their increase through taxation or redistribute their success. When government punishes productive stewardship through progressive taxation, it contradicts Christ's teaching that faithful management of "very little" qualifies you for "much." Economic freedom rewards faithful stewardship.
SB 1109Senate 20243x

Strengthening the Integrity of the Unemployment Insurance System by Clarifying Work Search Requirements.

With CEA
This bill provides that claimants are ineligible for unemployment insurance benefits if they refuse suitable work by unreasonably discouraging their own hire, either by refusing to attend a job interview or hiring activity or by refusing employment or referral for employment. The bill also requires the Department of Labor and Industry to create or update forms available to employers to report a claimant who discourages their own hire through these actions.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
2 Thessalonians 3:10 – "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat."
Leadership Insight
God honors productivity, not passivity. Work is not punishment - it’s purpose. A culture that rewards laziness erodes dignity and independence.
SB 1120Senate 20243x

Strengthening Public Safety by Restricting Non-Monetary Bail for Violent Offenders.

With CEA
This bill prevents courts from granting non-monetary bail for defendants who pose a threat to public safety. Under the bill, this includes repeat violent offenders, fentanyl drug dealers and traffickers, and those who assault law enforcement officers or evade arrest.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Psalm 82:3-4 – "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
Leadership Insight
God commands leaders to defend those who cannot defend themselves. Justice is not passive - it requires intervention. Leaders who ignore the vulnerable betray their calling. Advocacy for the powerless is not optional; it's obedience.
SB 153Senate 20242x

Slightly Easing Restrictions During a State of Emergency by Exempting Milk Haulers from Travel Restrictions.

With CEA
This bill allows milk haulers to transport milk on highways during a disaster emergency and weather-related travel bans. While the bill does require these vehicles to display a decal issued by the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board, this measure is a step in the right direction.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Exodus 1:17 – "The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live."
Leadership Insight
The Hebrew midwives ran small businesses providing essential services - and Pharaoh demanded they weaponize their commerce against the innocent. Economic freedom includes the right to refuse government mandates that violate conscience or harm others. When the state commands businesses to participate in evil, faithful entrepreneurs must resist. Economic liberty is not unlimited - it is bounded by moral duty to God, not government.
SB 170Senate 20241x

Threatening Public Safety by Allowing Juvenile Criminal Records to be Expunged After Just 2 Years Instead of 5.

Against CEA
This bill reduces the waiting period for expungement of most juvenile misdemeanors, from 5 years to 2 years. Oppose is the ACI’s position based on the cornerstone of Community.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Deuteronomy 16:18-20 – "Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly. Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the innocent. Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you."
Leadership Insight
Moses commands impartial justice - judges who follow "justice alone" without showing partiality. First Freedom depends on courts that protect religious liberty impartially, without favoring secular ideology over sincere faith. When judges show partiality against religious conviction, accepting the cultural bribes of elite approval, they pervert the justice God demands. First Freedom requires judges who fear God more than cultural pressure.
SB 67Senate 20241x

Strengthening Property Rights and Individual Liberties by Allowing Hunting on Sunday and Expanding Protections Against Trespassing.

With CEA
This bill removes the prohibition on Sunday hunting. Additionally, the bill makes it easier for a farmer to remove nuisance animals on their property when they are damaging crops by streamlining the process, permitting farmers to transport wildlife to a processor and self-report the harvest. The bill also increases penalties for trespassing onto private property while hunting and stipulates that repeat offenders may lose their hunting license.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Psalm 82:3-4 – "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
Leadership Insight
God commands leaders to defend those who cannot defend themselves. Justice is not passive - it requires intervention. Leaders who ignore the vulnerable betray their calling. Advocacy for the powerless is not optional; it's obedience.
SB 739Senate 20241x

Hiking Health Insurance Premiums by Mandating All Policies Provide Coverage for "Telemedicine" Services.

Against CEA
This bill requires all health insurance policies offered in the state to provide coverage for medically necessary telemedicine services and to reimburse in-network providers for telemedicine services at the same rate as in-person services. Policies are also prohibited from excluding coverage for a health care service solely because the service is provided through telemedicine. Each and every health insurance mandate prevents an individual from selecting a plan with just basic or customized coverages to fit their specific needs. As a result, health insurers are forced to only offer costly plans loaded with coverages that most individuals do not need.
OPPOSE is the CEA Position, based on:
Romans 14:3-4 – "The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall."
Leadership Insight
Paul's protection of conscience applies directly to healthcare freedom. No government or employer has authority to mandate medical treatments, vaccines, or procedures that violate sincere religious or moral conviction. Healthcare freedom means patients and providers can follow conscience in medical decisions without coercion, contempt, or punishment. When healthcare mandates override conscience, they violate the biblical principle that each person is accountable to their own Master.
SB 819Senate 20243x

Strengthening Law and Order by Enhancing Penalties for the Trespass or Damage of Critical Infrastructure Facilities.

With CEA
This bill increases penalties for property crimes against vital systems and assets of the state and nation, establishing the crimes of trespassing and vandalism of critical infrastructure, such as oil refineries, telecommunications equipment, and water treatment plants.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Proverbs 21:15 – "When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers."
Leadership Insight
Justice is not neutral - it rewards righteousness and confronts evil. Leaders who execute justice faithfully create cultures where virtue thrives and corruption fears. Moral clarity strengthens societies; moral ambiguity weakens them.
SB 1236Senate 20242x

Strengthening Property Rights by Clarifying that Squatters are Not "Tenants" and Not Entitled to Protections in the Legal Eviction Process.

Neutral
This bill strengthens property rights by making it easier for property owners to remove "squatters" from their property. The bill clarifies that "notice to quit" and other eviction requirements do not apply to landlords "repossessing real property from a person who is not, nor has ever been, a tenant of the real property.
SUPPORT is the CEA Position, based on:
Psalm 82:3-4 – "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
Leadership Insight
God commands leaders to defend those who cannot defend themselves. Justice is not passive - it requires intervention. Leaders who ignore the vulnerable betray their calling. Advocacy for the powerless is not optional; it's obedience.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Sen. Chris Gebhard's voting record?

Sen. Chris Gebhard (R-PA-48) earned a 57% Christian Employers Alliance score for 2024, showing moderate alignment with biblical business policy positions. Chris Gebhard voted on 16 of the 17 key bills CEA scored in 2024. Chris Gebhard represents the 48th District in the Pennsylvania State Senate. Highest category scores: Workforce Freedom (100%), Operational Freedom (88%), and Economic Freedom (38%).

How aligned is Chris Gebhard with biblical business policy positions?

Chris Gebhard earned a 57% Christian Employers Alliance score in 2024, showing moderate alignment with biblical business policy positions.

What is Chris Gebhard's CEA score?

Chris Gebhard has a 57% CEA score for 2024.

Where does Chris Gebhard serve?

Sen. Chris Gebhard (R-PA-48) represents the 48th District in the Pennsylvania State Senate as a Republican.

What issue categories does Chris Gebhard score highest on?

Chris Gebhard's strongest categories on the Christian Employers Alliance scorecard are: Workforce Freedom (100%), Operational Freedom (88%), Economic Freedom (38%).

Where can I see Chris Gebhard's full voting record?

View the full list of scored bills, category breakdown, and year-over-year voting record above. Christian Employers Alliance updates this scorecard as new key votes are scored.

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