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[H. Res. 253 Reported in House (RH)]






                                                  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.


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                    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

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                               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.

    Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution 
the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the 
House resolved into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
the Union 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. The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed 
with. General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed 
one hour equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce. After 
general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under the 
five-minute rule. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill 
for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment 
in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Education 
and the Workforce now printed in the bill. The committee amendment in 
the nature of a substitute shall be considered as read. No amendment to 
the commmittee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be in 
order except those printed in the report of the Committee on Rules 
accompanying this resolution. Each amendment may be offered only in the 
order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated 
in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the 
time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the 
proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall 
not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or 
in the Committee of the Whole. All points of order against the 
amendments printed in the report are waived. The chairman of the 
Committee of the Whole may: (1) postpone until a time during further 
consideration in the Committee of the Whole a request for a recorded 
vote on any amendment; and (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum time 
for electronic voting on any postponed question that follows another 
electronic vote without intervening business, provided that the minimum 
time for electronic voting on the first in any series of questions 
shall be 15 minutes. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for 
amendment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House 
with such amendments as may have been adopted. Any Member may demand a 
separate vote in the House on any amendment adopted in the Committee of 
the Whole to the bill or to the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the 
bill and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion 
except one motion to 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) 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.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             July 19, 1999

        Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed`