The Criminal Procedural Rules Committee is an advisory arm to the Supreme Court, serving to assist the Court in achieving its constitutional mandate to prescribe general rules governing criminal practice and procedure throughout Pennsylvania. The committee also monitors all local criminal rules as required by Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure 105.

Committee Members
Nicholas J. Nastasi, Esq., Chair
D. Peter Johnson, Esq., Vice Chair

Honorable Nancy L. Butts
John P. Delaney, Jr., Esq.
John L. Elash, Esq.
Risa Vetri Ferman, Esq.
Daniel E. Fitzsimmons, Esq.
Philip B. Friedman, Esq.
Charles J. Grant, Esq.
Stanley W. Greenfield, Esq.
Paul S. Kuntz, Esq., ex-officio
Philip D. Lauer, Esq.
Honorable Lester G. Nauhaus
Honorable John T. Robinson
Richard A. Sheetz, Jr., Esq.
Graham C. Showalter, Esq.

Staff
Anne T. Panfil, Esq., Chief Staff Counsel
Jeffrey M. Wasileski, Esq., Staff Counsel
Suzanne Creavey, Office Manager

The committee periodically publishes reports explaining the committee's proposals for new rules and rule amendments. These reports, called simply Reports, can be found in the Pennsylvania Bulletin and in the Atlantic Reporter 2d (Pennsylvania Reporter Series). In them, the committee encourages the bench, bar and public to submit comments and recommendations concerning the proposals. All comments are considered and, when appropriate, a proposal is modified before final submission to the Court.

If a recommendation is adopted, the committee prepares a final explanatory report for publication with the Court's order. These Final Reports are useful sources of information about the rule changes and the committee's considerations in developing the proposal for the rule changes.

In addition to reports, the committee prepares, as a public service, a "Calendar of the Effective Dates," which lists recently adopted criminal procedural rule changes and their effective dates. These calendars are published in various legal journals and newsletters to provide easy access to the effective dates of criminal rule changes.

Recent and proposed amendments to Criminal Procedural Rules