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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