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PA HR1
Resolution
Status
1/7/2025
Primary Sponsor
Joanna McClinton
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AI Summary
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Adopts the 2023-2024 House Rules as the permanent rules for the 2025-2026 session with amendments to definitions, order of business, fiscal notes, bill consideration procedures, committee structures, and other operational provisions.
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Increases standing committees from 24 to 27 by adding Commerce, Communications and Technology, Energy, and Intergovernmental Affairs committees, while renaming Environmental Resources and Energy to Environmental and Natural Resource Protection; expands committee membership from 25 to 26 members (14 majority, 12 minority).
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Reduces fiscal note projection requirements from five succeeding fiscal years to two succeeding fiscal years for cost and revenue loss estimates on bills.
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Shortens waiting periods for bill consideration: reduces time before concurrence action from six hours to three hours after bill language is publicly available; reduces time before final passage from six hours to three hours.
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Lowers the discharge petition signature requirement from 50 members (25 from each party) to 25 members total, and limits debate-ending motions (previous question) to only after two hours of debate or after 10:00 P.M.
Legislative Description
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.
Last Action
Adopted (196-6)
1/7/2025