Many in the Capitol are most closely watching Senate Bill 22, a bill that passed from the Senate to the House last week amid controversy. In addition to creating such a commission, an amendment added last week would allow voters to decide whether the state's appellate judges — including Supreme Court justices — should have to run for election in regional districts, as opposed to statewide, as they do currently. Democrats widely decried the move as an attempt to gerrymander the state's highest courts and retaliate against Supreme Court justices. Senate Republican leaders described the effort as an attempt to make sure the courts include more justices from rural areas; they noted that most of the Supreme Court's current justices come from Philadelphia and Allegheny County.