PRINTER'S NO. 1
No. 1 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY MANDERINO, O'DONNELL AND RYAN, JANUARY 17, 1989
ADOPTED, JANUARY 17, 1989
A RESOLUTION
1 Providing for the adoption of temporary rules of the House of
2 Representatives as permanent rules with changes in the
3 subcommittees.
4 RESOLVED, That the temporary rules for the 1989 and 1990
5 session of the House of Representatives which were adopted
6 January 3, 1989, be made permanent and amended as follows:
7 RULE 43
8 Standing Committees and Subcommittees
9 The Committee on Committees shall consist of the Speaker and
10 15 members of the House, ten of whom shall be members of the
11 majority party and five of whom shall be members of the minority
12 party, whose duty shall be to recommend to the House the names
13 of members who are to serve on the standing committees of the
14 House.
15 The Speaker shall appoint the chairman and vice-chairman of
16 each standing committee when such standing committee has no
17 standing subcommittees as prescribed herein, except the
18 Committee on Appropriations which shall also have a vice-
1 chairman appointed by the Speaker; when the standing committee
2 has standing subcommittees, the Speaker shall appoint a
3 subcommittee chairman for each standing subcommittee. The
4 Speaker shall appoint a secretary for each standing committee.
5 The Minority Leader shall appoint the minority chairman and
6 minority vice-chairman of each standing committee and the
7 minority subcommittee chairman for each standing subcommittee.
8 The Speaker of the House, Floor Leader of the majority party
9 and the Floor Leader of the minority party shall be ex-officio
10 members of all standing committees, without the right to vote
11 and they shall be excluded from any limitation as to the number
12 of members on the committees or in counting a quorum.
13 Twenty-one standing committees of the House, each to consist
14 of 24 members except the Committee on Appropriations, which
15 shall consist of 32 members, are hereby created. In addition,
16 there is hereby created [26] 27 standing subcommittees.
17 All standing committees shall consist of 14 members of the
18 majority party and ten members of the minority party, except the
19 Committee on Appropriations which shall consist of 20 members of
20 the majority party and 12 members of the minority party. The
21 quorum for each of the standing committees and subcommittees
22 shall be no less than the majority of said committees. The
23 following are the standing committees and subcommittees thereof:
24 (1) Agriculture and Rural Affairs
25 [(a) Subcommittee on Rural Affairs]
26 (2) Appropriations
27 (a) Subcommittee on Health and Welfare
28 (b) Subcommittee on Education
29 (c) Subcommittee on Capital Budget
30 (3) Business and Commerce
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1 (a) Subcommittee on Banking and Savings and Loan
2 Associations
3 (b) Subcommittee on Housing
4 (c) Subcommittee on Industrial Development, Recreation
5 and Tourism
6 (4) Conservation
7 (a) Subcommittee on Mining
8 (5) Consumer Affairs
9 (a) Subcommittee on Public Utilities
10 (6) Education
11 (a) Subcommittee on Basic Education
12 (b) Subcommittee on Higher Education
13 (7) Federal-State Relations
14 (8) Finance
15 (9) Game and Fisheries
16 (10) Health and Welfare
17 (a) Subcommittee on Health
18 (b) Subcommittee on Welfare
19 [(c) Subcommittee on Youth and Aging]
20 (11) Insurance
21 (12) Judiciary
22 (a) Subcommittee on Crime and Corrections
23 (b) Subcommittee on Courts
24 (13) Labor Relations
25 (14) Liquor Control
26 (15) Local Government
27 (a) Subcommittee on Boroughs
28 (b) Subcommittee on Counties
29 (c) Subcommittee on Townships
30 (16) [Mines and Energy Management] Youth and Aging
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1 (a) Subcommittee on Youth
2 (b) Subcommittee on Aging
3 (17) Professional Licensure
4 (18) State Government
5 (a) Subcommittee on Telecommunications
6 (19) Transportation
7 (a) Subcommittee on Highways
8 (b) Subcommittee on Public Transportation
9 (c) Subcommittee on Transportation Safety
10 (d) Subcommittee on Aviation
11 (20) Urban Affairs
12 (a) Subcommittee on Cities, Counties - First Class
13 (b) Subcommittee on Cities, Counties - Second Class
14 (c) Subcommittee on Cities, Third Class
15 (21) Military and Veterans Affairs
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