August 25, 2025
State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) hosted state Department of Transportation officials on a road tour around the 10th Senate District, announcing planned roadway repair projects, highlighting needed improvements, and applauding work that has recently been completed.
The road tour covered an expansive portion of the district, with six stops and dozens of roads featured along the route. In conjunction with the road tour, Senator Santarsiero has shared an inventory of roads in the 10th Senate District with specific requests for repair. The list is compiled on a rolling basis, and regularly shared with PennDOT, and includes submissions from constituents and municipalities.
August 15, 2025
Local Democratic lawmakers called the Republican State Senate transit bill, which failed to pass a Thursday night vote, a “Band-Aid” for SEPTA funding that didn’t offer a sustainable long-term solution during a press conference hosted by State Sen. Steve Santarsiero at the Yardley Train Station on Thursday.
Alongside Santarsiero, State Reps. Perry Warren, Tina Davis, Brian Munroe, Jim Prokopiak and Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie spoke about the impact SEPTA’s service cuts will have on their constituents.
August 12, 2025
BUCKS COUNTY, PA — Gov. Josh Shapiro appeared in Falls Township late last week to help launch the new high-tech Amazon data center.
State Sen. Steve Santarsiero joined Shapiro Thursday at the site of the new data center at the North Point Keystone Trade Center on the former US Steel property.
August 6, 2025
LOWER BUCKS COUNTY — State Sen. Steve Santarsiero is taking it to the streets.
The senator will host PennDOT representatives as he takes his annual road tour on Thursday around the 10th Senate District, which includes parts of Lower Bucks County.
August 6, 2025
BUCKS COUNTY, PA — State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) will be hitting the road with officials with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) during a summer road tour on Thursday through the 10th Senatorial District, which stretches from Buckingham south to Tullytown.
The road tour will include several stops to discuss high-priority repairs and improvements, beginning in the morning in Lower Bucks County and concluding with stops in Central Bucks County in the afternoon.
July 29, 2025
BUCKINGHAM TOWNSHIP, PA — Buckingham Township has been awarded a $2 million grant from the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (Pennvest) to build a new PFAS remediation system at the Hearthstone water treatment facility.
The project will include the construction of a new building to house the system, whose management will be tied into the main control system that provides combined treatment for the affected water wells. Pennvest also approved a low-interest $615,089 loan to the township for the project.
July 23, 2025
NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP, PA — Two new pedestrian safety signals are officially in operation at Sycamore Street and Silo Drive and at the mid-block crossing at Tara Boulevard and Newtown-Yardley Road.
State Senator Steve Santarsiero and State Rep. Perry Warren were joined by Newtown Township Supervisors Dennis Fisher and John Mack on Monday to inaugurate the safety improvements, which include pedestrian activation controls, rapid flashing beacon lights to warn motorists that people are in the crosswalk, and improved signage.
July 17, 2025
BUCKS COUNTY, PA — State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) and State Rep. Perry Warren (D-31) are partnering with PA CareerLink in Bucks County to host a mobile assistance event for job seekers on Wednesday, July 30 at the Bucks County Community College Newtown Campus.
PA CareerLink is part of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry’s initiative to transform the landscape of how job seekers find family sustaining jobs and how employers find the skilled candidates that they need. The Workforce on Wheels Bus is unique to the Bucks County CareerLink office, serving as a mobile PA CareerLink bringing job search resources to job seekers across the county.
July 16, 2025
A project to expand Bucks County’s only domestic violence shelter got a $6.11 million boost in state funding.
The funding comes from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) HOME Investment Partnerships American Rescue Plan Non-Congregate Shelter Program, said a press release from State Sen. Steve Santarsiero’s office Tuesday.
The funds would go to Bucks County and A Woman’s Place.
July 16, 2025
State officials told Upper Makefield residents Tuesday that new testing near a pipeline leak showing “elevated” levels of certain toxic chemicals is surprising and needs to be investigated.
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection officials made these comments during a town hall meeting about the Sunoco pipeline leak discovered in January under a neighborhood near Washington Crossing. Sunoco and its parent company Energy Transfer’s efforts so far to determine how big the fuel leak is and where the fuel is currently sitting are not good enough, DEP officials said, and if the pipeline company doesn’t sufficiently define the leak, the state will consider additional enforcement action.
July 15, 2025
WILKES-BARRE — A bipartisan group of state lawmakers from the Flood Insurance Premium Assistance Task Force on Tuesday announced the advancement of legislation that would give Pennsylvania home buyers information regarding flood risks when purchasing residential property.
The four legislators are Sen. Lisa Baker, R-Lehman Township; Sen. Steve Santarsiero, D-Bucks; Rep. Perry Warren, D-Bucks; and David Zimmerman, R-Berks/Lancaster.
House Bill 1704 — introduced by Warren and Zimmerman and approved unanimously by the House Insurance Committee — would require home sellers to disclose critical flood-related information to prospective buyers.
July 12, 2025
BUCKS COUNTY, PA — Amazon’s decision to choose Bucks County as one of two places in Pennsylvania to build a high-tech data center is being applauded by local lawmakers.
State Rep. Jim Prokopiak and State Sen. Steve Santarsiero celebrated the announcement that Falls Township has been selected as one of the first sites for Amazon Web Services’ multi-billion-dollar expansion of high-tech data center campuses across Pennsylvania.
July 10, 2025
BUCKS COUNTY, PA — The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency has announced more than $2.8 million in grants for multiple Bucks County projects under the Pennsylvania Housing Affordability and Rehabilitation Enhancement program.
The announcement was made by State Senator Steve Santarsiero, who said the following organizations in the 10th Senatorial District will be receiving funding under the program:
July 3, 2025
Thirty-five years ago, I was a young law student at Penn working at a student-run clinic for food stamp recipients at Community Legal Services’ offices at 52nd and Chestnut Streets in West Philadelphia. It was there that I met my wife, Ronni, who was a fellow student volunteer, and it was there that I spent my first summer in law school handling the claims of people who had been wrongly denied benefits. By the time I graduated, I was the student supervisor of the clinic, having represented scores of clients, all of whom were able to get their food stamps restored.
July 2, 2025
The Bucks County Beacon recently published what purported to be a news story on the passage of Senate Bill 780, a piece of legislation that addresses homeless encampments. I say purported, because in the second paragraph of the piece, its author abruptly veers from reporting to editorializing by alleging that state lawmakers were “joining in” on the cruel treatment of homeless people. The piece then goes on to present only the side of those people and organizations that are opposed to the bill. In fact, the reporter made no attempt to contact my office, or as far as I know, the offices of any of the other state senators who voted for the legislation let alone any organizations that might support it.
June 28, 2025
A lot has changed since 2004.
In that year, some enterprising Harvard students launched TheFacebook,
Yahoo.com was the most visited website and a ninth grade student named Taylor Alison Swift was looking for a record deal.
June 20, 2025
BUCKS COUNTY, PA — Two Bucks County lawmakers have sent a letter to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection urging them to bring an enforcement action against Sunoco/Energy Transfer to compel the remediation of contaminated wells near the Twin-Oaks-Newark pipeline leak in Upper Makefield.
The letter, authored by State Senator Steve Santarsiero and State Rep. Perry Warren, accuses Sunoco/Energy Transfer of not taking its responsibility to remediate the leak seriously and putting residents and the environment at continued risk for long-term damage.
May 1, 2025
NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP, PA — State Senator Steve Santarsiero is teaming up with State Rep. Perry Warren and the Pennsylvania Department of Banking & Securities to bring “Scam Jam” to Newtown Township on Friday, May 2.
The event, taking place from 10 a.m. to noon at the Newtown Township building, will include sessions on how to avoid identity theft and popular scams, when to report identity theft and scams to police, fraud bingo, cyber security, and how and why to freeze your credit report.
April 1, 2025
For the second year, disabled residents in Bucks County will have the chance to explore and have questions answered about county and state resources meant to serve and assist them at the Bucks County Disability Resource Fair in New Hope.
The event is hosted by State Rep. Tim Brennan (D, Bucks County 29th District) and State Sen. Steve Santarsiero (D, PA 10th District).
“If you are a caregiver or someone living with a disability it’s important to understand and access the critical services available. I am proud to work with Rep. Tim Brennan to raise awareness and directly connect our constituents to the many state and local resources available,” said Sen. Steve Santarsiero.
March 31, 2025
As the arduous investigation into and cleanup of jet fuel that leaked from an underground pipeline in Upper Makefield Township continues, related developments unfold nearly every day — like the three sternly written letters by elected officials sent at the same time to the heads of agencies involved in the process expected to last years.
The letters – one by US. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-1, and two jointly by state Sen. Steve Santarsiero, D-10, and state Rep. Perry Warren, D-31 – seek, among other things, “clear and comprehensive” answers to several questions surrounding the crisis that first made headlines Jan. 31.
March 17, 2025
Sunoco plans to revert back to one-on-one discussions with Upper Makefield Township homeowners affected by the leak of jet fuel from an underground neighborhood pipeline, it was concluded following another taskforce meeting packed with angry residents and elected officials calling for a complete shutdown of the troubled channel.
To date, at least six residential wells have tested positive for contaminants. Many more are being examined.
March 6, 2025
BRISTOL BOROUGH, PA — It was a message of unity.
Then President-Elect Abraham Lincoln was headed on his train to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration when he made a historic stop in Bristol Borough on Feb. 21, 1861.
This past week, state Sen. Steve Santarsiero and State Rep. Tina Davis presented Bristol Borough Raising the Bar with $60,000 to support the nonprofit’s commemorative display honoring President-elect Abraham Lincoln’s historic stop.
March 4, 2025
MORRISVILLE, PA —In the first two months of enforcement of the prohibition of trucks weighing more than 10 tons on South Pennsylvania Avenue, Morrisville Borough police have issued more than 200 tickets and are educating truck drivers about alternate routes.
State and local officials credit a new truck ban with finally decreasing commercial truck traffic in a residential area in Morrisville Borough.
March 2, 2025
Yardley, Morrisville, Upper and Lower Makefield among the towns receiving grants from Pennsylvania Community and Economic Development Department’s Multimodal Transportation Fund.
February 24, 2025
UPPER MAKEFIELD, PA —Upper Makefield has been awarded a $575,000 grant for streetscape improvements along Route 532 in the village of Washington Crossing.
The funding, announced by State Senator Steve Santarsiero and State Rep. Perry Warren, is awarded through the Commonwealth’s Multimodal Transportation Fund and administered by the state Department of Community and Economic Development.
