Senator Biography

• Kristin Phillips-Hill was elected to serve York County citizens in the Pennsylvania Senate in 2018 and subsequently re-elected in 2022.
• In the 2023-24 session and again in the 2025-26 session, Kristin’s colleagues elected her to serve as the Senate Majority Caucus Chair, where she leads legislative discussions to advance the Senate’s agenda.
• As a former small business owner and school board director, Kristin has made government efficiency a cornerstone of her public service career.
• She successfully championed legislative initiatives ranging from overhauling the state’s permitting process to streamlining the delivery of health care through reforms to the prior authorization process. She also led the efforts on landmark human trafficking reform, overturned a century-old law that prohibited the right to freedom of religious expression, and successfully fought to ban outside, third-party funding from influencing the administration of elections in Pennsylvania.
• Throughout her tenure in the Senate, Kristin has been a leader on expanding access to high-speed internet across Pennsylvania, including chairing the Communications & Technology Committee during her first term. She continues this work as vice chair of the Senate Communications & Technology Committee and as a member of the Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority, which she helped to establish in 2021, overseeing significant investments to expand broadband access statewide.
• Her work has resulted in meaningful bipartisan reforms that address the needs of constituents while ensuring fiscal responsibility.
• Kristin’s dedication to fiscal transparency extends to her personal conduct. She does not participate in the state’s pension or health insurance programs and commutes to Harrisburg in her own vehicle without accepting mileage reimbursement. She has been recognized by government watchdog entities for exceeding expectations in expense reporting for her transparency and accuracy. She also returns the automatic cost-of-living adjustment that is provided to legislators, executive officials, and judges back to the state Treasury.
• In addition to her leadership roles, Kristin serves as a member of the Senate Banking and Insurance, Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, State Government, and Appropriations committees. She also chairs the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee and serves as a member of the Legislative Data Processing Center.
• Kristin earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in public policy from Rutgers University. She resides in York Township with her husband Rick. Together, they have three grown children: Victoria, Gavin, and Spencer.

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