 Okay, let me get started here. I am Really proud to be here, and I want to especially welcome Mark and Shelly Heath's parents And I'm proud to assign this bill into law It's going to strengthen Pennsylvania's child Endangerment laws and protect our children from abuse and mistreatment House bill 217 was passed unanimously by both the House and the Senate And there's really I think it was a recognition that there's no more important job But that we can do here than to make sure that we're protecting our children We're protecting them from abuse from mistreatment and to ensure that that everybody Who endangers our children gets the full punishment to the fullest extent of the law And this bill allows courts when punishing a perpetrator of this heinous crime to take into account The age of the child who is put into danger as well as the degree of harm That change helps us more accurately reflect the reality of the situation when deciding how we're going to bring justice to those Who harm Pennsylvania's children and it's going to strengthen our child endangerment laws The greatest resource we have here in Pennsylvania is our children and we need to make sure that as they grow up They have the ability to do all the things children do to strive to learn to socialize and become Ultimately productive members of our society and our economy. We all need them to get to that point Harm neglect mistreatment inflicted at a young age has a ripple effect through life The child who's mistreated is lucky enough if that child is lucky enough to escape to adulthood They they still face all kinds of problems throughout their lives Those effects can impact their ability to get a job to succeed at it What's they get a job to build meaningful relationships throughout lives become contributing members of our communities and our economy? Not to mention the child endangerment as we know and the riders know to their great sadness can often have fatal results We all know the tragic story that has led us to this point today and to take a hard look at the laws and make this change Mark and Shelley have lived through something that no parent should ever have to endure Though this can never fix and what we're doing today can never fix what happened to them This bill will make it so that anyone who endangers a child in the state of Pennsylvania Faces a punishment that fits the horrible crime. They have committed This bill once it is law will make sure that no longer can guardians We trust to safeguard our children get away with or get off easy for harming or neglecting them So I'm proud to sign this bill today and I want to thank representative Ron Kauffman for his hard work I'm going to ask him to say a few words and I want to just also say A word for Mark Fogel the district attorney for Franklin County for for being here for all the work that he did to help Us get to this point. So let me turn this over to representative Kauffman Good morning Thank you governor Wolf. We appreciate This event today and the swiftness was with which you're Signing this legislation. I have to recognize The Ryder family Mark and Shelley and grandma Deb and brother Aidan and We are glad you're here today and Matt Fogel If it weren't for him, this would not have come to fruition Matt as he was prosecuting this case and ran against serious Roadblocks, he came in with with mark one day and we sat down and we chatted about how we Make sure that that no family in the future experiences injustice in the face of tragedy and So with working with with district attorney Fogel and the Pennsylvania district attorneys association We came up with legislation and it's hard in Harrisburg to come up with legislation that everyone agrees with Those of you in the press recognize and the governor recognizes how difficult that is and But we came to that At that point where we we found legislation that that could go swiftly and it took a couple of sessions to get there, but In in my career this this will be Really one of the greatest accomplishments that I've been able to work on To make sure that Heath is remembered That's what this legislation here today is to make sure that he's memory lives on in What I believe is going to be act 12 of 2017 and that in Heath's memory Boys and girls across Pennsylvania Will not Hopefully not see this kind of treatment, but we'll always see Justice and so thank you very much governor wolf. I can't thank you enough for For this this event today and bringing this to to a conclusion With the the signing of this act The representative and anybody will take questions on topic if you have any questions right now, I'll do a gaggle off To the side afterwards any questions on this bill Okay, then let me sign it. I'm gonna have representative on one side and Heath's brother Aiden on the other side