tion may be made without such prior announcement 
if the motion is made by direction of the committee 
to which the qualifying legislation was referred. All 
points of order against the qualifying legislation 
(and against consideration of the qualifying legisla-
tion) are waived. The motion is highly privileged in 
the House of Representatives and is privileged in the 
Senate and is not debatable. The motion is not sub-
ject to amendment, or to a motion to postpone, or 
to a motion to proceed to the consideration of other 
business. A motion to reconsider the vote by which 
the motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall not be 
in order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration 
of the qualifying legislation is agreed to, the respec-
tive House shall immediately proceed to consider-
ation of the qualifying legislation without intervening 
motion, order, or other business, and the qualifying 
legislation shall remain the unfinished business of 
the respective House until disposed of. 
(4) DEBATE.—Debate on qualifying legislation, 
and on all debatable motions and appeals in connec-
tion therewith, shall be limited to not more than 20 
hours, which shall be divided equally between, and 
controlled by, the Majority Leader and the Minority 
Leader or their designees. A motion to further limit 
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debate is in order and not debatable. The only 
amendments to the qualifying legislation that are in 
order are amendments that seek to ensure the quali-
fying legislation meets the criteria under subsection 
(a)(3). A motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed 
to the consideration of other business, or a motion 
to recommit the qualifying legislation is not in order. 
A motion to reconsider the vote by which the quali-
fying legislation is agreed to or disagreed to is not 
in order. 
(5) VOTE ON PASSAGE.—Immediately following 
the conclusion of the debate on the qualifying legis-
lation and a single quorum call at the conclusion of 
the debate if requested in accordance with the rules 
of the appropriate House, the vote on final passage 
of the qualifying legislation shall occur. 
(6) RULINGS OF THE CHAIR ON PROCEDURE.— 
Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to 
the application of the rules of the Senate or the 
House of Representatives, as the case may be, to the 
procedure relating to qualifying legislation shall be 
decided without debate. 
(c) CONSIDERATION BY OTHER HOUSE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—If, before the passage by one 
House of qualifying legislation of that House, that 
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House receives from the other House qualifying leg-
islation, then the following procedures shall apply: 
(A) The qualifying legislation of the other 
House shall not be referred to a committee and 
may not be considered in the House receiving it 
except in the case of final passage as provided 
in subparagraph (B)(ii). 
(B) With respect to any qualifying legisla-
tion of the House receiving the qualifying legis-
lation— 
(i) the procedure in that House shall 
be the same as if no qualifying legislation 
had been received from the other House; 
but 
(ii) the vote on final passage shall be 
on the qualifying legislation of the other 
House. 
(2) DISPOSITION.—Upon disposition of the 
qualifying legislation received from the other House, 
it shall no longer be in order to consider the quali-
fying legislation that originated in the receiving 
House. 
(d) RULES OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REP-
RESENTATIVES.—This section is enacted by Congress— 
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(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 
the Senate and the House of Representatives, re-
spectively, and as such is deemed a part of the rules 
of each House, respectively, but applicable only with 
respect to the procedure to be followed in that 
House in the case of qualifying legislation described 
in subsection (a)(1), and supersedes other rules only 
to the extent that this section is inconsistent with 
such rules; and 
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 
right of either House to change the rules (so far as 
relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, 
in the same manner, and to the same extent as in 
the case of any other rule of that House. 
Æ 
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