Bills
Amended by the Senate
When a bill or joint
resolution has been amended by the Senate and returned to the House for
concurrence, it shall be referred automatically to the Committee on Rules
immediately upon the reading of the message from the Senate by the Clerk. The
Committee on Rules shall not have the power to amend any bill or joint
resolution containing Senate amendments, except that the Committee on Rules, by
a majority vote of the members appointed to the committee, may revert to the printer's
number of the bill or joint resolution which last passed the House.
When said bill or
resolution has been favorably reported by the Committee on Rules, either as
committed or as last passed the House, said bill or joint resolution shall be
placed on the calendar. When acting on bills or joint resolutions amended by
the Senate, the bill and the amendments, if any shall be read and the question
put on the concurrence in the amendments.
Any two members may
object to the report of any bill or joint resolution included in a report of
the Committee on Rules on the basis that the adoption of an amendment to the
bill or joint resolution exceeded the limitation upon the power of the
Committee on Rules to amend bills and joint resolutions amended by the Senate.
The objection must be raised prior to the bill or joint resolution being put to
a roll call vote. The question shall be decided by a majority vote of the
members elected to the House. If the House rejects the report of any such bill
or joint resolution, the bill or joint resolution shall be deemed reported from
the Committee on Rules as committed and shall be placed on the calendar.
The House shall not
consider any proposed amendment to any amendment made by the Senate to a bill
or joint resolution, nor consider any amendment to any amendment made by the
Committee on Rules.
A majority vote of
the members elected to the House taken by yeas and nays shall be required to
concur in amendments made by the Senate, except for appropriations to
charitable and educational institutions not under the absolute control of the
Commonwealth, where a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to the
House shall be required to concur.
(Constitution, Article III, Sections
5 and 30).
