PRINTER'S NO. 189
No. 12 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY MESSRS. SCIRICA, HASKELL, CESSAR, POLITE, KNEPPER,
KELLY, YOHN, RENNINGER AND MRS. FAWCETT, JANUARY 28, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, JANUARY 28, 1975
In the House of Representatives, January 28, 1975
1 RESOLVED, That Rule 43 of the House of Representatives be
2 amended to read:
3 RULE 43
4 Standing Committees and Sub-Committees
5 The Committee on Committees shall consist of the Speaker and
6 fifteen members of the House, ten of whom shall be members of
7 the Majority Party and five of whom shall be members of the
8 Minority Party, whose duty shall be to recommend to the House
9 the names of members who are to serve on the Standing Committees
10 of the House.
11 The Speaker shall appoint the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of
12 each Standing Committee when such Standing Committee has no
13 Standing Sub-committees as prescribed herein; when the Standing
14 Committee has Standing Sub-Committees, the Speaker shall appoint
15 a Sub-committee Chairman for each Standing Sub-committee. The
16 Speaker shall appoint a secretary for each Standing Committee.
17 The Minority Leader shall appoint the Minority Chairman and
1 Minority Vice-Chairman of each Standing Committee and the
2 Minority Sub-Committee Chairman for each Standing Sub-Committee.
3 The Speaker of the House, Floor Leader of the Majority Party
4 and the Floor Leader of the Minority Party shall be ex-officio
5 members of all Standing Committees, without the right to vote
6 and they shall be excluded from any limitation as to the number
7 of members on the Committees or in counting a quorum.
8 Twenty Standing Committees of the House, each to consist of
9 twenty-three members except the Committee on Appropriations,
10 which shall consist of twenty-nine members, are hereby created.
11 In addition, there is hereby created twenty-three Standing Sub-
12 Committees.
13 All Standing Committees shall consist of fourteen members of
14 the Majority Party and nine members of the Minority Party,
15 except the Committee on Appropriations which shall consist of
16 [nineteen] twenty-three members of the Majority Party and [ten]
17 fourteen members of the Minority Party. The quorum for each of
18 the Standing Committees and Sub-committees shall be no less than
19 the majority of said Committees. The following are the Standing
20 Committees and Sub-committees thereof:
21 1. Agriculture and Dairy Industries
22 2. Appropriations
23 a. Operating Budget, the Chairman of which shall be
24 the Vice-Chairman of the Appropriations Committee
25 I. Department of Community Affairs
26 II. Department of Education
27 III. Department of Health
28 IV. Department of Justice
29 V. Department of Property and Supplies
30 VI. Department of Welfare
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1 VII. Other Administrative Departments, Boards
2 and Commissions
3 VIII. Legislative and Judicial Departments
4 3. Business and Commerce
5 a. Banking and Savings and Loan
6 b. Industrial Development and Recreation and
7 Tourism
8 4. Conservation
9 5. Consumer Protection
10 b. Capital Budget
11 c. Federal-State Relations
12 a. Insurance
13 b. Public Utilities
14 6. Education
15 a. Basic
16 b. Higher
17 7. Game and Fisheries
18 8. Health and Welfare
19 a. Health
20 b. Welfare
21 9. Judiciary
22 10. Labor Relations
23 a. Workmen's Compensation
24 11. Law and Justice
25 12. Liquor Control
26 13. Local Government
27 a. Boroughs
28 b. Counties
29 c. Townships
30 d. Municipal Corporations
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1 14. Military and Veterans Affairs
2 15. Mines and Minerals
3 16. Professional Licensure
4 17. State Government
5 a. Elections and Apportionment
6 18. Transportation
7 a. Highways
8 b. Local and Area Transportation
9 c. Transportation Safety
10 19. Urban Affairs
11 a. Cities, Counties First Class
12 b. Cities, Counties, Second Class
13 c. Cities, Second Class A and Third Class
14 and Counties Second Class A
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