On April 24, 2023, the PA House Education Committee voted to approve a bill that would help to address the teacher shortage in the Commonwealth. HB 141, known as the Time for Pennsylvania to Grow Our Own Educators Act, would amend the Public School Code to develop talent recruitment by providing for a Talent Recruitment Account, as well as establishing the Grow-Your-Own Educators Grant Program and grow-your-own educator career pathways. The 12-9 committee vote for legislation, which would encourage paraprofessionals and other school support personnel to attend postsecondary schools to obtain their teaching credentials, was along party lines with no Republicans voting for its passage. It has now been re-committed to the House Appropriations Committee.