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House Calendar No. 89

106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 253

[Report No. 106–240]

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1995) to amend the Elementary

and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to empower teachers, improve

student achievement through high-quality professional development for

teachers, reauthorize the Reading Excellence Act, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JULY 19, 1999

Ms. PRYCE of Ohio, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1995) to amend

the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965

to empower teachers, improve student achievement

through high-quality professional development for teachers, reauthorize the Reading Excellence Act, and for

other purposes.

1 Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this

2 resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of

3 rule XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee
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1 of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consider2 ation of the bill (H.R. 1995) to amend the Elementary

3 and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to empower teach4 ers, improve student achievement through high-quality

5 professional development for teachers, reauthorize the

6 Reading Excellence Act, and for other purposes. The first

7 reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. General debate

8 shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour

9 equally divided and controlled by the chairman and rank10 ing minority member of the Committee on Education and

11 the Workforce. After general debate the bill shall be con12 sidered for amendment under the five-minute rule. It shall

13 be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose

14 of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment

15 in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Com16 mittee on Education and the Workforce now printed in

17 the bill. The committee amendment in the nature of a sub18 stitute shall be considered as read. No amendment to the

19 commmittee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall

20 be in order except those printed in the report of the Com21 mittee on Rules accompanying this resolution. Each

22 amendment may be offered only in the order printed in

23 the report, may be offered only by a Member designated

24 in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debat25 able for the time specified in the report equally divided
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1 and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall

2 not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to

3 a demand for division of the question in the House or in

4 the Committee of the Whole. All points of order against

5 the amendments printed in the report are waived. The

6 chairman of the Committee of the Whole may: (1) post7 pone until a time during further consideration in the Com8 mittee of the Whole a request for a recorded vote on any

9 amendment; and (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum

10 time for electronic voting on any postponed question that

11 follows another electronic vote without intervening busi12 ness, provided that the minimum time for electronic voting

13 on the first in any series of questions shall be 15 minutes.

14 At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amend15 ment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the

16 House with such amendments as may have been adopted.

17 Any Member may demand a separate vote in the House

18 on any amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole

19 to the bill or to the committee amendment in the nature

20 of a substitute. The previous question shall be considered

21 as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final

22 passage without intervening motion except one motion to

23 recommit with or without instructions.
House Calendar No. 89

106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. RES. 253

[Report No. 106–240]

RESOLUTION

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1995)

Reading Excellence Act, and for other purposes.sional development for teachers, reauthorize thestudent achievement through high-quality profescation Act of 1965 to empower teachers, improveto amend the Elementary and Secondary EduJULY 19, 1999

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be

printed