Pennsylvania HR 1: A Resolution adopting permanent rules for the House of Representatives, further providing for time of meeting, for order of business, for fiscal notes, for general appropriation bill and non-preferred bills, for consideration of bills, for amendments, for bills amended by the Senate, for hospital and home appropriations or acquiring lands of the Commonwealth, for House and concurrent resolutions, for standing committees and subcommittees, for powers and duties of standing committees and subcommittees, for Government Oversight Committee, for investigations, for privileged motions, for lay on the table, for division of a question, for financial interests in gaming entities, for electric roll call and for Committee on Ethics; and providing for temporary rules relating to roll call votes, to voting meetings of committees, to consideration of bills, third consideration and final passage bills and conference committee reports.

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PRINTER'S NO. 1
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 1
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY McCLINTON, JANUARY 7, 2025
INTRODUCED, 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, 59 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:
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"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 of Representatives to report or not
report, amend, consider or table a bill or resolution and the
discussion and debate thereof.
"Hall of the House" shall be the floor space within its four
walls and does not include the adjoining conference rooms, the
lobbies or the upper gallery of the House.
"Legislative Day" shall mean any day that the House shall be
in session.
["Majority Party" shall mean the political party that won the
greater number of elections for the 203 seats in the House of
Representatives in the general election preceding the term of
service that began on the first day of December next after the
general election. If a vacancy shall occur during the term, the
political party that won that seat at the last election shall
remain the party that won that seat until any subsequent special
election is held to fill that seat. Following a special election
during the term, the number of elections won by each political
party for the 203 seats in the House of Representatives shall be
redetermined as provided in this definition. Nothing in this
definition shall preclude an individual elected to hold a seat
in the House of Representatives from changing their political
party registration.]
"Press Gallery" shall be within that area known as the Hall
of the House as designated by the Speaker.
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"Roll Call Vote" shall be a vote taken by and displayed on
the electronic roll call board or in the event of a malfunction
of the electronic roll call board, by such method as shall be
determined by the Speaker.
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RULE 17
Order of Business
The daily order of business shall be:
(1) Prayer or invocation.
(2) Pledge of Allegiance.
(3) Correction and approval of the Journal.
(4) Leaves of absence.
(5) Master Roll Call.
(6) Reports of Committee.
(7) First consideration bills.
(8) Second consideration bills.
(9) Third consideration bills, final passage bills
(including both third consideration and final passage postponed
bills) and resolutions.
(10) Final passage bills recalled from the Governor.
(11) Messages from the Senate and communications from the
Governor.
(12) Reference to appropriate committees of bills,
resolutions, petitions, memorials, remonstrances and other
papers.
(13) Unfinished business on the Speaker's table.
(14) Announcements.
(15) Adjournment.
Any question may, by a majority vote of the members elected,
be made a special order of business. When a special order of
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business is adopted for a question on second consideration, the
question shall immediately be placed on the House Voting
Schedule and the Speaker shall place the question before the
House on the earliest possible voting Session Day in accordance
with Rule 21. All other questions shall be placed before the
House on the same legislative day.
In lieu of offering House Resolutions on topics of importance
to members, any member, without unanimous consent, may address
the House on such issue and have their remarks entered into the
record during a special period of time established each week by
the Speaker either prior to, or at the conclusion of, House
business on a specific day.
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RULE 19 (a)
Fiscal Notes
(1) No bill, except a General Appropr