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House Calendar No. 196
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. RES. 454
[Report No. 106–557]
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2418) to amend the Public
Health Service Act to revise and extend programs relating to organ
procurement and transplantation.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 3, 2000
Mr. LINDER, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution;
which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
RESOLUTION
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2418) to amend
the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend pro-
grams relating to organ procurement and transplan-
tation.
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 consider-
ation of the bill (H.R. 2418) to amend the Public Health
Service Act to revise and extend programs relating to
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organ procurement and transplantation. The first reading
of the bill shall be dispensed with. General debate shall
be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour equal-
ly divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking mi-
nority member of the Committee on Commerce. After gen-
eral 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 sub-
stitute recommended by the Committee on Commerce now
printed in the bill. The committee amendment in the na-
ture of a substitute shall be considered as read. No amend-
ment to the committee amendment in the nature of a sub-
stitute 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 debat-
able 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) post-
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pone until a time during further consideration in the Com-
mittee 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 busi-
ness, 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 amend-
ment 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. 196
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. RES. 454
[Report No. 106–557]
RESOLUTION
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2418)
to amend the Public Health Service Act to revise
and extend programs relating to organ procure-
ment and transplantation.
APRIL 3, 2000
Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be
printed