batable. 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
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 resolution is
agreed to, the respective House shall immediately
proceed to consideration of the joint resolution with-
out intervening motion, order, or other business, and
the resolution shall remain the unfinished business
of the respective House until disposed of.
(2) DEBATE.—Debate on the resolution, and on
all debatable motions and appeals in connection
therewith, shall be limited to not more than 2 hours,
which shall be divided equally between those favoring
and those opposing the resolution. An amendment to
the resolution is not in order. A motion further to
limit debate is in order and not debatable. A motion
to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the consider-
ation of other business, or a motion to recommit the
resolution is not in order. A motion to reconsider the
vote by which the resolution is agreed to or dis-
agreed to is not in order.
(3) QUORUM CALL.—Immediately following the
conclusion of the debate on a resolution described in
subsection (a) 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 resolution shall occur.
(4) APPEALS FROM DECISION OF CHAIR.—Ap-
peals 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 proce-
dure relating to a resolution described in subsection
(a) shall be decided without debate.
(e) CONSIDERATION BY OTHER HOUSE.—
(1) If, before the passage by one House of a
resolution of that House described in subsection (a),
that House receives from the other House a resolu-
tion described in subsection (a), then the following
procedures shall apply:
(A) The resolution 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 sub-
paragraph (B)(ii).
(B) With respect to a resolution described
in paragraph (1) of the House receiving the res-
olution—
(i) the procedure in that House shall
be the same as if no resolution had been
received from the other House; but
(ii) the vote on final passage shall be
on the resolution of the other House.
(2) CONSIDERATION
AFTER
DISPOSITION
BY
OTHER HOUSE.—Upon disposition of the resolution
received from the other House, it shall no longer be
in order to consider the resolution that originated in
the receiving House.
(f) RULES OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE.—This sub-
section is enacted by Congress—
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of
the Senate and House of Representatives, respec-
tively, 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 a resolution described in sub-
section (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. 9. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this Act:
(1) The term ‘‘Account’’ means the Department
of Energy Laboratory Facility Closure Account es-
tablished in section 6(a).
(2) The term ‘‘Commission’’ means the Depart-
ment of Energy Laboratory Facilities Closure and
Reconfiguration Commission.
(3) The term ‘‘congressional energy commit-
tees’’ means the Committee on Armed Services of
the Senate, the Committee on National Security of
the House of Representatives, the Committee on
Science of the House of Representatives, and the
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the
Senate.
(4) The term ‘‘departmental laboratory’’ means
a Federal laboratory, or any other laboratory or fa-
cility designated by the Secretary, operated by or on
behalf of the Department of Energy.
(5) The term ‘‘Federal laboratory’’ has the
meaning given the term ‘‘laboratory’’ in section
12(d)(2) of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Inno-
vation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3710a(d)(2)).
(6) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary
of Energy.
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