HARRISBURG — 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 today 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.