PRINTER'S NO. 69
No. 1 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY DeWEESE, JANUARY 1, 1991
ADOPTED, JANUARY 1, 1991
A RESOLUTION
1 Providing for the adoption of permanent rules of the House of
2 Representatives with amendments for the disposition of bills
3 amended by the Senate and the names of certain standing
4 committees.
5 RESOLVED, That the existing rules of the 1989-1990 session be
6 and are hereby adopted as the permanent rules for the 1991-1992
7 session of the House of Representatives with the exceptions of
8 Rules 30 and 43 which shall be amended to read:
9 RULE 30
10 [House] Bills Amended by the Senate
11 When a [House] bill or joint resolution has been amended by
12 the Senate and returned to the House for concurrence, it shall
13 be referred automatically to the Committee on Rules immediately
14 upon the reading of the message from the Senate by the Clerk.
15 The Committee on Rules may amend any bill or resolution
16 containing Senate amendments.
17 When said bill or resolution has been favorably reported by
18 the Committee on Rules, either as committed or as amended, said
1 bill or resolution shall be placed on the calendar and copies
2 thereof shall be placed on the desks of the members. When acting
3 on bills or joint resolutions amended by the Senate, the
4 amendments shall be read and the question put on the concurrence
5 in the amendments.
6 The House shall not consider any proposed amendment to any
7 amendment made by the Senate to a [House] bill or joint
8 resolution, nor consider any amendment to any amendment made by
9 the Committee on Rules.
10 A majority vote of the members elected to the House taken by
11 yeas and nays shall be required to concur in amendments made by
12 the Senate, except for appropriations to charitable and
13 educational institutions not under the absolute control of the
14 Commonwealth, where a vote of two-thirds of all the members
15 elected to the House shall be required to concur. (Constitution,
16 Article III, Sections 5 and 30).
17 RULE 43
18 Standing Committees and Subcommittees
19 The Committee on Committees shall consist of the Speaker and
20 15 members of the House, ten of whom shall be members of the
21 majority party and five of whom shall be members of the minority
22 party, whose duty shall be to recommend to the House the names
23 of members who are to serve on the standing committees of the
24 House.
25 The Speaker shall appoint the chairman and vice-chairman of
26 each standing committee when such standing committee has no
27 standing subcommittees as prescribed herein, except the
28 Committee on Appropriations which shall also have a vice-
29 chairman appointed by the Speaker; when the standing committee
30 has standing subcommittees, the Speaker shall appoint a
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1 subcommittee chairman for each standing subcommittee. The
2 Speaker shall appoint a secretary for each standing committee.
3 The Minority Leader shall appoint the minority chairman and
4 minority vice-chairman of each standing committee and the
5 minority subcommittee chairman for each standing subcommittee.
6 The Speaker of the House, Floor Leader of the majority party
7 and the Floor Leader of the minority party shall be ex-officio
8 members of all standing committees, without the right to vote
9 and they shall be excluded from any limitation as to the number
10 of members on the committees or in counting a quorum.
11 Twenty-one standing committees of the House, each to consist
12 of 24 members except the Committee on Appropriations, which
13 shall consist of 32 members, are hereby created. In addition,
14 there is hereby created 27 standing subcommittees.
15 All standing committees shall consist of 14 members of the
16 majority party and ten members of the minority party, except the
17 Committee on Appropriations which shall consist of 20 members of
18 the majority party and 12 members of the minority party. The
19 quorum for each of the standing committees and subcommittees
20 shall be no less than the majority of said committees. The
21 following are the standing committees and subcommittees thereof:
22 (1) Aging and Youth
23 (a) Subcommittee on Aging
24 (b) Subcommittee on Youth
25 [(1)] (2) Agriculture and Rural Affairs
26 [(2)] (3) Appropriations
27 (a) Subcommittee on Health and Welfare
28 (b) Subcommittee on Education
29 (c) Subcommittee on Capital Budget
30 [(3)] (4) 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)] (5) Conservation
7 (a) Subcommittee on Mining
8 [(5)] (6) Consumer Affairs
9 (a) Subcommittee on Public Utilities
10 [(6)] (7) Education
11 (a) Subcommittee on Basic Education
12 (b) Subcommittee on Higher Education
13 [(7)] (8) Federal-State Relations
14 [(8)] (9) Finance
15 [(9)] (10) Game and Fisheries
16 [(10)] (11) Health and Welfare
17 (a) Subcommittee on Health
18 (b) Subcommittee on Welfare
19 [(11)] (12) Insurance
20 [(12)] (13) Judiciary
21 (a) Subcommittee on Crime and Corrections
22 (b) Subcommittee on Courts
23 [(13)] (14) Labor Relations
24 [(14)] (15) Liquor Control
25 [(15)] (16) Local Government
26 (a) Subcommittee on Boroughs
27 (b) Subcommittee on Counties
28 (c) Subcommittee on Townships
29 [(16) Youth and Aging
30 (a) Subcommittee on Youth
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1 (b) Subcommittee on Aging]
2 (17) Military and Veterans Affairs
3 [(17)] (18) Professional Licensure
4 [(18)] (19) State Government
5 (a) Subcommittee on Telecommunications
6 [(19)] (20) 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)] (21) 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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