H. Res. 1500 

In the House of Representatives, U. S., 

July 1, 2010. 

Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall 

be in order to take from the Speaker’s table the bill (H.R. 

4899) making emergency supplemental appropriations for 

disaster relief and summer jobs for the fiscal year ending 

September 30, 2010, and for other purposes, with the Senate 

amendments thereto, and to consider in the House, without 

intervention of any point of order except those arising under 

clause 10 of rule XXI, a motion offered by the chair of the 

Committee on Appropriations or his designee that the House 

concur in the Senate amendment to the text with each of the 

five House amendments printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution. The Senate 

amendments and the motion shall be considered as read. The 

motion shall be debatable for one hour and 30 minutes as follows: 30 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair 

and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations; then 30 minutes equally divided and controlled by 

Representative Lee of California or her designee and an op-
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ponent; and then 30 minutes equally divided and controlled 

by Representative McGovern of Massachusetts or his designee 

and an opponent. The previous question shall be considered 

as ordered on the motion to final adoption without intervening motion or demand for division of the question except 

that the question of adoption of the motion shall be divided 

among the five House amendments. The first portion of the 

divided question shall be considered as adopted. If the remaining portions of the divided question fail of adoption, then 

the House shall be considered to have rejected the motion 

and to have made no disposition of the Senate amendment 

to the text. 

SEC. 2. Upon adoption of the motion specified in the 

first section of this resolution— 

(a) the Clerk shall engross the action of the House 

under that section as a single amendment; and 

(b) a motion that the House concur in the Senate 

amendment to the title shall be considered as adopted. 

SEC. 3. The chair of the Committee on Appropriations 

may insert in the Congressional Record not later than July 

3, 2010, such material as he may deem explanatory of the 

Senate amendments and the motion specified in the first section of this resolution. 

SEC. 4. House Resolution 1493 is hereby adopted. 
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SEC. 5. Clause 10(a) of rule XXI is amended to read as 

follows: 

‘‘(a)(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c), it 

shall not be in order to consider any bill, joint resolution, 

amendment, or conference report if the provisions of such 

measure affecting direct spending and revenues have the net 

effect of increasing the on-budget deficit or reducing the onbudget surplus for the period comprising either— 

‘‘(A) the current year, the budget year, and the four 

years following that budget year; or 

‘‘(B) the current year, the budget year, and the 

nine years following that budget year. 

‘‘(2) The effect of such measure on the deficit or surplus 

shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the 

Committee on the Budget relative to baseline estimates supplied by the Congressional Budget Office consistent with section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 

Control Act of 1985 and consistent with sections 3(4), 3(8), 

and 4(c) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010. 

‘‘(3) For the purpose of this clause, the terms ‘budget 

year’, ‘current year’, and ‘direct spending’ have the meanings 

specified in section 250 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, except that the term ‘direct spending’ shall also include provisions in appropriation 

Acts that make outyear modifications to substantive law as 
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described in section 3(4)(C) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go 

Act of 2010.’’. 

Attest: 

Clerk.