Members
Required to be Present and Vote
Every member shall
be present within the Hall of the House during its sittings, unless excused by
the House or unavoidably prevented, and shall vote for or against each question
put, unless he or she has a direct personal or pecuniary interest in the
determination of the question or unless excused.
No member shall be
permitted to vote and have his or her vote recorded on the roll unless present
in the Hall of the House during the roll call vote.
The Legislative
Journal shall show the result of each roll call by yeas and nays and those
absent and those not voting.
RULE
64 (a)
Chronic
Absenteeism
For purposes of this
rule the term "chronic absenteeism" shall mean the unexcused absence
of a representative for a period of five consecutive legislative days from
official sessions of the House of Representatives or the absence of a committee
member for a period of five consecutive days from an assigned committee meeting
which meeting qualifies as a regular committee meeting under the rules of the
House of Representatives and the Sunshine Law of the Commonwealth.
Any representative
who is absent without excuse from regular House sessions for a period of five
consecutive legislative days or is absent for a period of five consecutive
committee meetings shall be deemed a chronic absentee and may, on a vote of the
full House, be held in contempt of this House upon motion of five members of
the House for chronic absence from regular House sessions and by motion of three
members of the standing committee of the House to which such representative is
assigned for chronic absence from regularly scheduled committee meetings.
The term
"chronic absenteeism" shall not include:
- 1. Absence due to the personal illness or bodily injury of a representative.
- 2. Absence due to personal illness or bodily injury of a member of the immediate family of the
representative.
- 3. Death to a member of the immediate family of a representative.
- 4. Any excused absence approved by the House pursuant to its rules.
