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109TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1st Session 109–56 

PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 748, CHILD 

INTERSTATE ABORTION NOTIFICATION ACT 

APRIL 26, 2005.—Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 

Mr. GINGREY, from the Committee on Rules, 

submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

[To accompany H. Res. 236] 

The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration House 

Resolution 236, by a record vote of 9 to 4, report the same to the 

House with the recommendation that the resolution be adopted. 

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE RESOLUTION

The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 748, the Child 

Interstate Abortion Notification Act, under a structured rule. The 

rule provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary. The rule waives all points of order against 

consideration of the bill. 

The rule provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill shall be considered as an original bill for the purpose 

of amendment. 

The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in this 

report. The rule provides that the amendments printed in this report may be offered only in the order printed in this report, may 

be offered only by a Member designated in this report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in this 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 a division of the question in the House or in the 

Committee of the Whole. The rule waives all points of order against 

the amendments printed in this report. The rule provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. 

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EXPLANATION OF WAIVERS

The Committee is not aware of any points of order against consideration of the resolution. The waiver of all points of order 

against consideration of the resolution is prophylactic in nature. 

COMMITTEE VOTES

Pursuant to clause 3(b) of House rule XIII the results of each 

record vote on an amendment or motion to report, together with 

the names of those voting for and against, are printed below: 

Rules Committee Record Vote No. 39 

Date: April 26, 2005. 

Measure: H.R. 748, Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act. 

Motion by: Mrs. Slaughter. 

Summary of motion: To amend the rule and require that the Judiciary Committee file a supplemental report to clarify the descriptions of the amendments in the original Judiciary Committee report. 

Results: Defeated 4 to 9. 

Vote by Members: Diaz-Balart—Nay; Hastings (WA)—Nay; Sessions—Nay; Putnam—Nay; Capito—Nay; Cole—Nay; Bishop—Nay; 

Gingrey—Nay; Slaughter—Yea; McGovern—Yea; Hastings (FL)— 

Yea; Matsui—Yea; Dreier—Nay. 

Rules Committee Record Vote No. 40 

Date: April 26, 2005. 

Measure: H.R. 748, Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act. 

Motion by: Mrs. Slaughter. 

Summary of motion: To make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for the amendment offered by Mr. Nadler, which 

takes away a father’s right to sue in cases in which he caused the 

minor to become pregnant. 

Results: Defeated 4 to 9. 

Vote by Members: Diaz-Balart—Nay; Hastings (WA)—Nay; Sessions—Nay; Putnam—Nay; Capito—Nay; Cole—Nay; Bishop—Nay; 

Gingrey—Nay; Slaughter—Yea; McGovern—Yea; Hastings (FL)— 

Yea; Matsui—Yea; Dreier—Nay. 

Rules Committee Record Vote No. 41 

Date: April 26, 2005. 

Measure: H.R. 748, Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act. 

Motion by: Mrs. Slaughter. 

Summary of motion: To make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for the amendment offered by Mr. Watt, which provides a health exception to offenses created under the Act. 

Results: Defeated 4 to 9. 

Vote by Members: Diaz-Balart—Nay; Hastings (WA)—Nay; Sessions—Nay; Putnam—Nay; Capito—Nay; Cole—Nay; Bishop—Nay; 

Gingrey—Nay; Slaughter—Yea; McGovern—Yea; Hastings (FL)— 

Yea; Matsui—Yea; Dreier—Nay. 

Rules Committee Record Vote No. 42 

Date: April 26, 2005. 

Measure: H.R. 748, Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act. 

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Motion by: Mr. Hastings of Florida. 

Summary of motion: To make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for the amendment offered by Ms. Waters, which 

creates an exception that would allow a minor who resides in a 

state that requires by law parental involvement in that minor’s 

abortion decision, to be transported by another person across state 

lines to a state where no such law exists without any liability 

under H.R. 748, if that minor’s pregnancy resulted from incest. 

Results: Defeated 4 to 9. 

Vote by Members: Diaz-Balart—Nay; Hastings (WA)—Nay; Sessions—Nay; Putnam—Nay; Capito—Nay; Cole—Nay; Bishop—Nay; 

Gingrey—Nay; Slaughter—Yea; McGovern—Yea; Hastings (FL)— 

Yea; Matsui—Yea; Dreier—Nay. 

Rules Committee Record Vote No. 43 

Date: April 26, 2005. 

Measure: H.R. 748, Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act. 

Motion by: Mr. Hastings of Florida. 

Summary of motion: To amend the rule to recommend that the 

chairman of the Judiciary Committee, before debate on the rule, 

make clear that no House members support sexual predators. 

Results: Defeated 4 to 9. 

Vote by Members: Diaz-Balart—Nay; Hastings (WA)—Nay; Sessions—Nay; Putnam—Nay; Capito—Nay; Cole—Nay; Bishop—Nay; 

Gingrey—Nay; Slaughter—Yea; McGovern—Yea; Hastings (FL)— 

Yea; Matsui—Yea; Dreier—Nay. 

Rules Committee Record Vote No. 44 

Date: April 26, 2005. 

Measure: H.R. 748, Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act. 

Motion by: Mrs. Matsui. 

Summary of motion: To make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for the amendment offered by Mrs. Harman, which 

authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide 

annual funding to public and private entities to establish or expand 

teenage pregnancy prevention programs. Requires applicants to incorporate teenage pregnancy prevention programs that have been 

proven to delay sexual intercourse or sexual activity, increase 

condom or contraceptive use (without increasing sexual activity), or 

reduce teenage pregnancy. 

Results: Defeated 4 to 9. 

Vote by Members: Diaz-Balart—Nay; Hastings (WA)—Nay; Sessions—Nay; Putnam—Nay; Capito—Nay; Cole—Nay; Bishop—Nay; 

Gingrey—Nay; Slaughter—Yea; McGovern—Yea; Hastings (FL)— 

Yea; Matsui—Yea; Dreier—Nay. 

Rules Committee Record Vote No. 45 

Date: April 26, 2005. 

Measure: H.R. 748, Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act. 

Motion by: Mrs. Matsui. 

Summary of motion: To make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for the amendment offered by Ms. Linda Sa ́nchez, 

which creates an exception to the parental notification provision of 

H.R. 748 so that physicians do not have to notify parents of the 

abortion procedure when: (1) the physician performs the abortion 

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procedure in state that does not have a law in force requiring parental involvement in the minor’s decision, and (2) the minor’s 

state of residence does not have a parental notification law in force 

requiring parental involvement in a minor’s decision. 

Results: Defeated 4 to 9. 

Vote by Members: Diaz-Balart—Nay; Hastings (WA)—Nay; Sessions—Nay; Putnam—Nay; Capito—Nay; Cole—Nay; Bishop—Nay; 

Gingrey—Nay; Slaughter—Yea; McGovern—Yea; Hastings (FL)— 

Yea; Matsui—Yea; Dreier—Nay. 

Rules Committee Record Vote No. 46 

Date: April 26, 2005. 

Measure: H.R. 748, Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act. 

Motion by: Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart. 

Summary of motion: To report the rule. 

Results: Agreed to 9 to 4. 

Vote by Members: Diaz-Balart—Yea; Hastings (WA)—Yea; Sessions—Yea; Putnam—Yea; Capito—Yea; Cole—Yea; Bishop—Yea; 

Gingrey—Yea; Slaughter—Nay; McGovern—Nay; Hastings (FL)— 

Nay; Matsui—Nay; Dreier—Yea. 

SUMMARY OF AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER

(Summaries derived from information provided by the amendment sponsor.) 

1. Scott (VA): Immunizes taxicab drivers, bus drivers, others in 

the business of professional transport, doctors, nurses, and/or other 

medical providers or their staff from the transportation provision 

of the bill. (20 minutes) 

2. Jackson-Lee/Nadler: Adds to the exceptions to the offense of 

transporting minors for the purpose of obtaining an illegal abortion 

grandparents of the minor and members of the clergy. (20 minutes) 

TEXT OF AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER 

1. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT OF

VIRGINIA, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO BE DEBATABLE FOR 20 MINUTES

Page 4, after line 11, insert the following: 

(3) The prohibitions of this section do not apply with respect 

to conduct by taxicab drivers, bus drivers, nurses, medical providers or others in the business of professional transport. 

Redesignate succeeding subsections accordingly. 

2. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE JACKSONLEE OF TEXAS, OR HER DESIGNEE, TO BE DEBATABLE FOR 20 

MINUTES

Page 4, after line 11, insert the following: 

‘‘(3) The prohibition of subsection (a) does not apply with respect to conduct by a grandparent of the minor or clergy person. 

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