THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE RESOLUTION

INTRODUCED BY CUTLER, DENLINGER, GABLER, GRELL, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, REICHLEY, ROCK, SCHRODER, STERN AND VULAKOVICH, MARCH 14, 2011

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, MARCH 14, 2011  

A RESOLUTION

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives, further

providing for suspending and changing the rules.

RESOLVED, That Rule 77 of the Rules of the House of

Representatives be amended to read:

RULE 77

Suspending and Changing Rules

Unless otherwise specified in another rule, any rule of the

House, which is not required by the Constitution, may be

temporarily suspended at any time for a specific purpose only by

a vote of two-thirds of the members elected to the House by a

roll call vote.

A motion to suspend the rules may not be laid on the table,

postponed, committed or amended and may be debated by the

majority leader, the minority leader, the maker of the motion,

the maker of the amendment under consideration and the prime

sponsor of the bill under consideration.

A brief description of the underlying bill or amendment shall

be given whenever a member moves to suspend the rules of the

House in order to consider such bill or amendment.

The existing rules of the House shall not be changed, added

to, modified or deleted except by written resolution and the

same approved by a majority vote of the members elected to the

House by a roll call vote.

Except where such resolution originates with the Committee on

Rules, no resolution proposing any change, addition,

modification or deletion to existing House rules shall be

considered until such resolution has been referred to the

Committee on Rules, reported therefrom, printed, filed on the

desk of each member and placed on the calendar.

Any proposed change, addition, modification or deletion

offered by a member on the floor of the House to such resolution

shall be considered, in effect, a change, addition, modification

or deletion to existing House rules and shall require for

approval a majority vote of the members by a roll call vote.

The Chief Clerk shall annually prepare a report on the use of

the suspension of the House rules under this rule, to be made

available for public inspection, detailing all of the following:

(1)  Which House rule was suspended.

(2)  The date a rule was suspended.

(3)  The time a rule was suspended.

(4)  A roll call of the vote to suspend the rules.