Pa. House considers vote to cut its own size
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HARRISBURG (AP) – The Pennsylvania House is debating whether to reduce its own 203-member size by about a quarter, to 151 representatives.
A final vote on the proposal in the House could occur as early as Tuesday in Harrisburg.
Reducing the size of the Legislature requires a constitutional amendment, so it has to pass both chambers in two consecutive two-year sessions.
This marks the third session that the reduction has been considered, and so far nothing’s made it out of both the House and the Senate.
There’s also a pending proposal to cut the number of senators from 50 to 38.
On Monday, the House defeated Democratic-sponsored amendments to tie the House and Senate reductions together in a single bill, and an attempt to limit the role of politics in drawing district lines.