H. Res. 560
In the House of Representatives, U.S., 
November 17, 2005.
Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it 
shall be in order without intervention of any point of order 
to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 4241) to provide for 
reconciliation pursuant to section 201(a) of the concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006. The bill shall 
be considered as read. The amendment printed in the report 
of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution shall 
be considered as adopted. All points of order against provi-
sions in the bill, as amended, are waived. The previous ques-
tion shall be considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, 
to final passage without intervening motion except: (1) two 
hours of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair-
man and ranking minority member of the Committee on the 
Budget; and (2) one motion to recommit with or without in-
structions. 
SEC. 2. During consideration of H.R. 4241 pursuant to 
this resolution, notwithstanding the operation of the previous
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question, the Chair may postpone further consideration of the 
bill to a time designated by the Speaker. 
SEC. 3. After passage of H.R. 4241, it shall be in order 
to take from the Speaker’s table S. 1932 and to consider the 
Senate bill in the House. All points of order against the Sen-
ate bill and against its consideration are waived. It shall be 
in order to move to strike all after the enacting clause of the 
Senate bill and to insert in lieu thereof the provisions of H.R. 
4241 as passed by the House. All points of order against that 
motion are waived. 
SEC. 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this res-
olution, the amendment considered as adopted under the first 
section of this resolution shall be modified as specified in sec-
tion 5. 
SEC. 5. The modification referred to in section 4 is as 
follows:
Page 13, strike lines 5 through 11, and insert the 
following:
‘‘(a) ELIGIBLE HOUSEHOLDS.—The Food Stamp Act 
of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) is amended—
‘‘(1) in section 5—
‘‘(A) in the 2d sentence of subsection (a); 
and 
‘‘(B) in subsection (j);
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by striking ‘receives benefits’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘in fiscal years 2006 through 2010 re-
ceives cash assistance, and in any other fiscal year 
receives benefits,’; 
‘‘(2) in section 5(a) by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act except 
sections 6(b), 6(d)(2), and 6(g) and section 3(i)(4), house-
holds in which each member receives substantial and ongo-
ing noncash benefits under a State program funded under 
part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
601 et seq.) provided for purposes of shelter, utilities, 
child care, health care, transportation, or job training, and 
that have a monthly income that does not exceed (before 
the exclusions and deductions provided for in subsections 
(d) and (e)) 150 percent of the poverty line, as defined 
in section 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant 
Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)), for the forty-eight contiguous 
States and the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, the 
Virgin Islands of the United States, and Guam, respec-
tively, shall be eligible to participate in the food stamp 
program.’; and 
‘‘(3) in section 5(j) by adding at the end the 
following:
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‘Notwithstanding subsections (a) through (i), a State 
agency shall consider a member of a household in which 
each household member receives substantial and ongoing 
noncash benefits under a State program funded under 
part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
601 et seq.) provided for purposes of shelter, utilities, 
child care, health care, transportation, or job training, and 
which has a monthly income that does not exceed (before 
the exclusions and deductions provided for in subsections 
(d) and (e)) 150 percent of the poverty line, as defined 
in section 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant 
Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)), for the forty-eight contiguous 
States and the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, the 
Virgin Islands of the United States, and Guam, respec-
tively, to have satisfied the resource limitations prescribed 
under subsection (g).’.’’.
Page 331, at the end of line 13, add the following:
‘‘Such method shall provide that not less than 25 percent 
of such funds shall be allocated among States the popu-
lation of which (as determined according to data collected 
by the United States Census Bureau) as of July 1, 2004,