PRINTER'S NO. 3183

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE RESOLUTION

No.

814

Session of

2015

INTRODUCED BY NEUMAN, READSHAW, MURT, WARD, GREINER, CORBIN,

TAYLOR, ROZZI, SCHLOSSBERG, O'BRIEN, KOTIK, GIBBONS, MAHONEY,

DeLUCA, LONGIETTI, O'NEILL, FREEMAN, PASHINSKI, BULLOCK,

committees and subcommittees.

RESOLVED, That House Rule 43 be amended to read:

The Committee on Committees shall consist of the Speaker and

15 members of the House, ten of whom shall be members of the

majority party and five of whom shall be members of the minority

party, whose duty shall be to recommend to the House the names

of members who are to serve on the standing committees of the

House. Except for the Speaker, the Majority and Minority

subcommittees as prescribed herein, except the Committee on

Appropriations which shall also have a vice-chair appointed by

the Speaker; when the standing committee has standing

subcommittees, the Speaker shall appoint a subcommittee chair

for each standing subcommittee. The Speaker shall appoint a

secretary for each standing committee. The Minority Leader shall

appoint the minority chair, minority vice-chair and minority

secretary of each standing committee and the minority

subcommittee chair for each standing subcommittee.

Except for members who decline chair status or minority chair

available chairs or minority chairs for that caucus, the

selection of a chair or minority chair from among such caucus

members shall be in the discretion of the appointing authority.

The appointing authority may designate the standing committee to

which the appointing authority shall appoint a member as chair

or minority chair without regard to seniority. The Speaker and

the Floor Leader, Whip, Caucus Chair, Caucus Secretary, Caucus

Administrator and Policy Chair of the majority party and

minority party shall not be eligible to serve as chair or

minority chair of any standing committee and no member may serve

fails to make an appointment of a chair or minority chair prior

to the organizational meeting of a standing committee or fails

to fill a vacancy within seven calendar days after it occurs,

such position shall be deemed to remain vacant in violation of

this rule. Whenever a chair or minority chair becomes vacant or

remains vacant in violation of this rule, the member of the

applicable caucus who meets the requirements of this rule shall

automatically fill the vacancy and, if there are two or more

such eligible caucus members for any such vacancy or vacancies,

they shall be filled from among such eligible members through a

standing committee to the chair or minority chair of another

standing committee.

Whenever the appointment of a chair or minority chair will

cause the applicable caucus to exceed its permissible allocation

of members on a standing committee, the appointing authority

shall make a temporary transfer of an eligible committee member

to the standing committee vacated by the member appointed as

chair or minority chair until a regular committee appointment

can be made in accordance with the rules of the House. If the

Speaker or Minority Leader fails to make a temporary transfer

one committee member is eligible for such transfer, the transfer

shall be implemented through a lottery conducted under the

supervision of the Chief Clerk.

The Speaker of the House, Floor Leader of the majority party

and the Floor Leader of the minority party shall be ex-officio

members of all standing committees, without the right to vote

and they shall be excluded from any limitation as to the number

of members on the committees or in counting a quorum.

Twenty-four standing committees of the House, each to consist

of 27 members except the Committee on Appropriations, which

quorum for each of the standing committees and subcommittees

shall be no less than the majority of said committees. The

following are the standing committees and subcommittees thereof:

(1) Aging and Older Adult Services

(a) Subcommittee on Care and Services

(b) Subcommittee on Programs and Benefits

(2) Agriculture and Rural Affairs

(3) Appropriations

(a) Subcommittee on Health and Welfare

(b) Subcommittee on Education

(5) Commerce

(a) Subcommittee on Financial Services and Banking

(b) Subcommittee on Housing

(c) Subcommittee on Economic Development

(d) Subcommittee on Small Business

(6) Consumer Affairs

(a) Subcommittee on Public Utilities

(b) Subcommittee on Telecommunications

(7) Education

(a) Subcommittee on Basic Education

(9) Finance

(10) Game and Fisheries

(11) Gaming Oversight

(12) Health

(a) Subcommittee on Health Facilities

(b) Subcommittee on Health Care

(c) Subcommittee on Drug Abuse

(13) Human Services

(a) Subcommittee on Mental Health

(b) Subcommittee on Drugs and Alcohol

(c) Subcommittee on Family Law

(16) Labor and Industry

(17) Liquor Control

(a) Subcommittee on Licensing

(b) Subcommittee on Marketing

(18) Local Government

(a) Subcommittee on Boroughs

(b) Subcommittee on Counties

(c) Subcommittee on Townships

(19) Professional Licensure

(c) Subcommittee on Travel Promotion, History and

Heritage

(22) Transportation

(a) Subcommittee on Highways

(b) Subcommittee on Public Transportation

(c) Subcommittee on Transportation Safety

(d) Subcommittee on Aviation

(e) Subcommittee on Railroads

(23) Urban Affairs

(a) Subcommittee on Cities, Counties - First Class

(b) Subcommittee on Security and Emergency Response

Readiness