Pennsylvania legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Pennsylvania HR1: A Resolution adopting permanent rules for the House of Representatives, further providing for definitions, for order of business, for fiscal notes, for consideration of bills, for third consideration and final passage bills, for House and concurrent resolutions, for standing committees and subcommittees, for powers and duties of standing committees and subcommittees, for public hearings, for discharge of committees, for lay on the table and for previous question.
Status: Passed both chambers, January 7, 2025
What the bill says
A resolution Adopting permanent rules for the House of Representatives, further providing for definitions, for order of business, for fiscal notes, for consideration of bills, for third consideration and final passage bills, for House and concurrent resolutions, for standing committees and subcommittees, for powers and duties of standing committees and subcommittees, for public hearings, for discharge of committees, for lay on the table and for previous question. RESOLVED, That the Permanent Rules of the House of Representatives (2023-2024) be adopted as the Permanent Rules of the House of Rep.
From the introduced text, January 7, 2025:
A RESOLUTION Adopting permanent rules for the House of Representatives, further providing for definitions, for order of business, for fiscal notes, for consideration of bills, for third consideration and final passage bills, for House and concurrent resolutions, for standing committees and subcommittees, for powers and duties of standing committees and subcommittees, for public hearings, for discharge of committees, for lay on the table and for previous question. RESOLVED, That the Permanent Rules of the House of Representatives (2023-2024) be adopted as the Permanent Rules of the House of Representatives for the 2025-2026 session of the House of Representatives with the following amendments to the heading, definitions and Rules 17, 19 (a), 21, 24, 35, 43, 45, 50, 53, and 61: [2023-2024] 2025-2026 GENERAL OPERATING RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The following words and phrases when used in the General Operating Rules of the House of Representatives shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Day" shall mean any calendar day. "Floor of the House" shall be that area within the Hall of the House between the Speaker's rostrum and the brass rail behind the Members' seats. "Formal Action" shall mean any vote or motion of a member of a standing committee, standing subcommittee, select committee or rules committee of the House …