(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – A mixture of Hershey’s chocolates is displayed in the company’s Times Square store, March 1, 2017, in New York. Hershey is cautioning on its 2024 profit growth as the company contends with rising cocoa costs that are leading to higher prices for chocolate. Cocoa futures prices have doubled over the past year and hit an unprecedented $5,874 per metric ton Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in intraday trading. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Dauphin County, PA) The Hershey Kiss Bill was passed earlier this week in Pennsylvania, which would make Hershey’s Kisses the official state candy of Pennsylvania. Representative Tom Mehaffie is the sponsor of the bill. Mehaffie also said to media outlets that the bill would be made official by Governor Josh Shapiro if it goes to him. Pennsylvania will become the first state in the United States to have an official state candy when the Hershey Kiss Bill becomes official.