(B) The Director may employ and fix the com-
pensation of such staff as the chair considers nec-
essary. 
(h) EXPERTS AND CONSULTANTS.—The joint com-
mission may procure temporary and intermittent services 
under section 3109(b) of title 5, United States Code, at 
rates for individuals which do not exceed the daily equiva-
lent of the annual rate of basic pay for a comparable posi-
tion paid under the General Schedule. 
(i) TIMELINE.—(1) The Commission shall hold its 
first meeting within 30 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
(2) The Commission shall hold meetings at the call 
of the chair of the joint commission. 
(j) FUNDING.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated $800,000 to the joint commission to carry out its 
duties. 
(k) TRAVEL.—The travel expenses of members of the 
joint commission and staff shall be paid for from appro-
priated funds. Staff and members of the joint commission 
shall abide by the Government travel rules set forth by 
the Committee on House Administration of the House of 
Representatives. 
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SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF REFORM 
PROPOSALS. 
(a) INTRODUCTION; REFERRAL; AND REPORT
OR 
DISCHARGE.— 
(1) INTRODUCTION.—On the first calendar day 
on which both Houses are in session, on or imme-
diately following the date on which the report con-
taining the bill it recommends is submitted to Con-
gress under section 2, a single bill shall be intro-
duced (by request)— 
(A) in the Senate by the majority leader of 
the Senate, for himself and the minority leader 
of the Senate, or by Members of the Senate 
designated by the majority leader and minority 
leader of the Senate; and 
(B) in the House of Representatives by the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, for 
himself and the minority leader of the House of 
Representatives, or by Members of the House of 
Representatives designated by the Speaker and 
minority leader of the House of Representa-
tives. 
(2) REFERRAL.—The implementation bills in-
troduced under paragraph (1) shall be referred to 
any appropriate committee of jurisdiction in the 
Senate and any appropriate committee of jurisdic-
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tion in the House of Representatives. A committee 
to which an implementation bill is referred under 
this paragraph may report such bill to the respective 
House without amendment. 
(3) REPORT OR DISCHARGE.—If a committee to 
which an implementation bill is referred has not re-
ported such bill by the end of the 15th calendar day 
after the date of the introduction of such bill, such 
committee shall be immediately discharged from fur-
ther consideration of such bill, and upon being re-
ported or discharged from the committee, such bill 
shall be placed on the appropriate calendar. 
(b) FLOOR CONSIDERATION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—When the committee to 
which an implementation bill is referred has re-
ported, or has been discharged under subsection 
(a)(3), it is at any time thereafter in order (even 
though a previous motion to the same effect has 
been disagreed to) for any Member of the respective 
House to move to proceed to the consideration of the 
implementation bill, and all points of order against 
the implementation bill (and against consideration of 
the implementation bill) are waived. The motion is 
highly privileged in the House of Representatives 
and is privileged in the Senate and is not debatable. 
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The motion is not subject to amendment, or to a 
motion to postpone, or to a motion to proceed to the 
consideration of other business. A motion to recon-
sider 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 implementation 
bill is agreed to, the implementation bill shall remain 
the unfinished business of the respective House until 
disposed of. 
(2) AMENDMENTS.—An implementation bill 
may not be amended in the Senate or the House of 
Representatives. 
(3) DEBATE.—Debate on the implementation 
bill, and on all debatable motions and appeals in 
connection therewith, shall be limited to not more 
than 10 hours, which shall be divided equally be-
tween those favoring and those opposing the resolu-
tion. A motion further to limit debate is in order and 
not debatable. An amendment to, or a motion to 
postpone, or a motion to proceed to the consider-
ation of other business, or a motion to recommit the 
implementation bill is not in order. A motion to re-
consider the vote by which the implementation bill is 
agreed to or disagreed to is not in order. 
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(4) VOTE
ON
FINAL
PASSAGE.—Immediately 
following the conclusion of the debate on an imple-
mentation bill, and a single quorum call at the con-
clusion of the debate if requested in accordance with 
the rules of the appropriate House, the vote on final 
passage of the implementation bill shall occur. 
(5) 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 an implementation bill shall be 
decided without debate. 
(c) COORDINATION
WITH
ACTION
BY
OTHER 
HOUSE.—If, before the passage by one House of an imple-
mentation bill of that House, that House receives from 
the other House an implementation bill, then the following 
procedures shall apply: 
(1) NONREFERRAL.—The implementation bill 
of the other House shall not be referred to a com-
mittee. 
(2) VOTE ON BILL OF OTHER HOUSE.—With 
respect to an implementation bill of the House re-
ceiving the implementation bill— 
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(A) the procedure in that House shall be 
the same as if no implementation bill had been 
received from the other House; but 
(B) the vote on final passage shall be on 
the implementation bill of the other House. 
(d) RULES OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF 
REPRESENTATIVES.—This section is enacted by Con-
gress— 
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 
the Senate and the House of Representatives, re-
spectively, and as such it 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 an implementation bill de-
scribed in subsection (a), and it supersedes other 
rules only to the extent that it 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. 
SEC. 4. TERMINATION AND DISPOSITION OF RECORDS. 
(a) TERMINATION.—The joint commission shall ter-
minate not later than the earlier of— 
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