Following is a listing of executive and legislative action for March 1 and the week of March 4. Both houses of the General Assembly were in recess at press time. The state House of Representatives was set to return to session on Monday; the Pennsylvania Senate was in recess and scheduled to be back March 18.

Minimum Wage

Nearly half of Pennsylvania hourly-wage workers—more than 1.75 million—make less than $15 per hour, according to a report by the Minimum Wage Advisory Board on March 1 on behalf of the state Department of Labor and Industry.