PRINTER'S NO. 701
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
14
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY FREEMAN, DiGIROLAMO, SAMUELSON, MURT, DeLISSIO,
BOYLE, CIRESI, CONKLIN, DALEY, DAVIDSON, DeLUCA, DONATUCCI,
FRANKEL, HANBIDGE, HILL-EVANS, HOHENSTEIN, HOWARD,
INNAMORATO, ISAACSON, KIM, KINSEY, KORTZ, McCARTER, McNEILL,
D. MILLER, MULLERY, MULLINS, NEILSON, O'MARA, PASHINSKI,
RABB, SANCHEZ, SAPPEY, SCHLOSSBERG, SCHWEYER, SHUSTERMAN,
SOLOMON, ULLMAN, VITALI, WARREN, WEBSTER, ZABEL, KIRKLAND,
OTTEN, BULLOCK, KENYATTA AND FITZGERALD, MARCH 5, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, MARCH 5, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives, further
providing for discharge of committees.
RESOLVED, That Rule 53 of the Rules of the House of
Representatives be amended to read:
RULE 53
Discharge of Committees
A member may present to the Chief Clerk a resolution in
writing to discharge a committee from the consideration of a
bill or resolution which has been referred to it 15 legislative
days prior thereto (but only one motion may be presented for
each bill or resolution). The discharge resolution shall be
placed in the custody of the Chief Clerk, who shall arrange some
convenient place for the signature of the members. A signature
may be withdrawn by a member in writing at any time before the
discharge resolution is entered in the Journal. When 25 members
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of the House shall have signed the resolution, it shall be
entered in the Journal and the title of the bill or resolution
and the name of the committee to be discharged shall be printed
on the calendar. Once the discharge resolution has been placed
on the calendar, the committee may take no action on the bill or
resolution except to report the bill or resolution to the House
under its current printer's number and without a recommendation
to re-refer to another committee, until such time as the
discharge resolution is acted upon by the House.
Any member who has signed a discharge resolution which has
been on the calendar at least one legislative day prior thereto
and seeks recognition, shall be recognized for the purpose of
calling up the discharge resolution and the House shall proceed
to its consideration without intervening motion except one
motion to adjourn; however, no discharge resolution shall be
considered during the last six legislative days of any session
of the House. A majority vote of all the members elected to the
House shall be required to agree to a resolution to discharge a
committee. When any perfected discharge resolution has been
acted upon by the House and defeated it shall not be in order to
entertain during the same session of the House any other
discharge resolution from that committee of said measure, or
from any other committee of any other bill or resolution
substantially the same, relating in substance to or dealing with
the same subject matter.
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