‘‘PROCEDURES FOR EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION 
‘‘SEC. 1013. (a) EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION.— 
‘‘(1) INTRODUCTION OF APPROVAL BILL.—Any 
Member of each House may (by request) introduce 
an approval bill as defined in section 1015 not later 
than the third day of session of that House after the 
date of receipt of a special message transmitted to 
the Congress under section 1011(b). 
‘‘(2) CONSIDERATION IN THE HOUSE OF REP-
RESENTATIVES.— 
‘‘(A) REFERRAL
AND
REPORTING.—Any 
committee of the House of Representatives to 
which an approval bill is referred shall report it 
to the House without amendment not later than 
the third legislative day after the date of its in-
troduction. If a committee fails to report the 
bill within that period or the House has adopt-
ed a concurrent resolution providing for ad-
journment sine die at the end of a Congress, 
such committee shall be automatically dis-
charged from further consideration of the bill 
and it shall be placed on the appropriate cal-
endar. 
‘‘(B) PROCEEDING TO CONSIDERATION.— 
Not later than 3 legislative days after the ap-
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proval bill is reported or a committee has been 
discharged from further consideration thereof, 
it shall be in order to move to proceed to con-
sider the approval bill in the House. Such a mo-
tion shall be in order only at a time designated 
by the Speaker in the legislative schedule within 
2 legislative days after the day on which the 
proponent announces an intention to the House 
to offer the motion provided that such notice 
may not be given until the approval bill is re-
ported or a committee has been discharged 
from further consideration thereof. Such a mo-
tion shall not be in order after the House has 
disposed of a motion to proceed with respect to 
that special message. The previous question 
shall be considered as ordered on the motion to 
its adoption without intervening motion. A mo-
tion to reconsider the vote by which the motion 
is disposed of shall not be in order. 
‘‘(C) CONSIDERATION.—If the motion to 
proceed is agreed to, the House shall imme-
diately proceed to consider the approval bill in 
the House without intervening motion. The ap-
proval bill shall be considered as read. All 
points of order against the approval bill and 
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against its consideration are waived. The pre-
vious question shall be considered as ordered on 
the approval bill to its passage without inter-
vening motion except 2 hours of debate equally 
divided and controlled by the proponent and an 
opponent and one motion to limit debate on the 
bill. A motion to reconsider the vote on passage 
of the approval bill shall not be in order. 
‘‘(3) CONSIDERATION IN THE SENATE.— 
‘‘(A) COMMITTEE
ACTION.—The appro-
priate committee of the Senate shall report 
without amendment the approval bill as defined 
in section 1015(2) not later than the third ses-
sion day after introduction. If a committee fails 
to report the approval bill within that period or 
the Senate has adopted a concurrent resolution 
providing for adjournment sine die at the end 
of a Congress, the Committee shall be auto-
matically discharged from further consideration 
of the approval bill and it shall be placed on the 
appropriate calendar. 
‘‘(B) MOTION
TO
PROCEED.—Not later 
than 3 session days after the approval bill is re-
ported in the Senate or the committee has been 
discharged thereof, it shall be in order for any 
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Senator to move to proceed to consider the ap-
proval bill in the Senate. The motion shall be 
decided without debate and the motion to re-
consider shall be deemed to have been laid on 
the table. Such a motion shall not be in order 
after the Senate has disposed of a prior motion 
to proceed with respect to the approval bill. 
‘‘(C) CONSIDERATION.—If a motion to 
proceed to the consideration of the approval bill 
is agreed to, the Senate shall immediately pro-
ceed to consideration of the approval bill with-
out intervening motion, order, or other busi-
ness, and the approval bill shall remain the un-
finished business of the Senate until disposed 
of. Consideration on the bill in the Senate 
under this subsection, and all debatable motions 
and appeals in connection therewith, shall not 
exceed 10 hours equally divided in the usual 
form. All points of order against the approval 
bill or its consideration are waived. Consider-
ation in the Senate on any debatable motion or 
appeal in connection with the approval bill shall 
be limited to not more than 1 hour. A motion 
to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the con-
sideration of other business, or a motion to re-
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commit the approval bill is not in order. A mo-
tion to reconsider the vote by which the ap-
proval bill is agreed to or disagreed to is not in 
order. 
‘‘(4) AMENDMENTS PROHIBITED.—No amend-
ment to, or motion to strike a provision from, an ap-
proval bill considered under this section shall be in 
order in either the Senate or the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
‘‘(5) COORDINATION WITH ACTION BY OTHER 
HOUSE.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—If, before passing the 
approval bill, one House receives from the other 
a bill— 
‘‘(i) the approval bill of the other 
House shall not be referred to a com-
mittee; and 
‘‘(ii) the procedure in the receiving 
House shall be the same as if no approval 
bill had been received from the other 
House until the vote on passage, when the 
bill received from the other House shall 
supplant the approval bill of the receiving 
House. 
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‘‘(B) This paragraph shall not apply to the 
House of Representatives. 
‘‘(b) LIMITATION.—Subsection (a) shall apply only to 
an approval bill, as such term is defined in section 
1015(2), introduced pursuant to subsection (a)(1). 
‘‘(c) EXTENDED TIME PERIOD.—If Congress ad-
journs at the end of a Congress prior to the expiration 
of the periods described in sections 1012(c)(2) and 1014 
and an approval bill was then pending in either House 
of Congress or a committee thereof, or an approval bill 
had not yet been introduced with respect to a special mes-
sage, or before the applicable 10-day period specified in 
section 1011(a) has expired, then within the first 3 days 
of session, the President shall transmit to Congress an ad-
ditional special message containing all of the information 
in the previous, pending special message and an approval 
bill may be introduced within the first 5 days of session 
of the next Congress and shall be treated as an approval 
bill under this part, and the time periods described in sec-
tions 1012(c)(2) and 1014 shall commence on the day of 
introduction of that approval bill. 
‘‘(d) APPROVAL BILL PROCEDURE.—In order for an 
approval bill to be considered under the procedures set 
forth in this part, the bill must meet the definition of an 
approval bill and must be introduced no later than the 
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