HR 73 — A Resolution amending House Rule 24, further providing for third consideration and final passage bills.

PRINTER'S NO.   585

                  THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



           HOUSE RESOLUTION
              No. 73
                                              Session of
                                                2025

     INTRODUCED BY WEBSTER, HADDOCK AND GREEN, FEBRUARY 12, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, FEBRUARY 12, 2025


                               A RESOLUTION
 1   Amending House Rule 24, further providing for third
 2      consideration and final passage bills.
 3      RESOLVED, That House Rule 24 be amended to read:
 4                               RULE 24
 5             Third Consideration and Final Passage Bills
 6      [Bills] A bill on third consideration shall be considered in
 7   [their] its calendar order and shall be subject to amendment
 8   only when an amendment is necessary to make the document
 9   internally consistent, to clear up an ambiguity, to correct
10   grammar or to correct a drafting error [or], is necessary for
11   purposes of statutory construction or, except for a bill on
12   concurrence amended by the Committee on Rules, is offered to a
13   bill amended in committee after second consideration. An
14   amendment under this paragraph shall not be subject to the
15   filing deadlines under Rule 21. A bill having received
16   consideration by the House on three different days and having
17   been agreed to may be called by the Speaker to receive action on
18   final passage; however, a bill may not receive action on final
 1   passage until at least three hours have elapsed from the time
 2   the bill and its amendatory language was available to the
 3   public, unless the amendment was a technical amendment permitted
 4   under the first paragraph of this rule or an affirmative vote of
 5   2/3 of the members elected to the House indicates that they have
 6   had sufficient time to review the language of the bill and
 7   thereby approve proceeding with the bill. Upon being called to
 8   receive action on final passage, the title and a brief
 9   description of a bill shall be read. A bill on final passage
10   shall not be subject to amendment, but shall be subject to
11   debate. At the conclusion of debate, the Speaker shall then
12   state the question as follows:
13      "This bill has been considered on three different days and
14   agreed to and is now on final passage. The question is, shall
15   the bill pass finally? Agreeable to the provision of the
16   Constitution, the yeas and nays will now be taken."
17      When more than one bill shall be called for action on final
18   passage at the same time, prior to voting, the title or a brief
19   analysis of each bill shall be read.
20      The Speaker shall then state the question as follows:
21      "These bills have been considered on three different days and
22   agreed to and are now on final passage. The question is, shall
23   the bills on the uncontested calendar pass finally? Agreeable to
24   the provision of the Constitution, the yeas and nays will now be
25   taken."




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