Senate, as the case may be, to the procedure re-
lating to a joint resolution of disapproval shall 
be decided without debate. 
‘‘(E) CONSIDERATION
OF
VETO
MES-
SAGES.—Debate in the Senate of any veto mes-
sage with respect to a joint resolution of dis-
approval, including all debatable motions and 
appeals in connection with the joint resolution, 
shall be limited to 10 hours, to be equally di-
vided between, and controlled by, the majority 
leader and the minority leader or their des-
ignees. 
‘‘(7) RULES RELATING TO SENATE AND HOUSE 
OF REPRESENTATIVES.— 
‘‘(A) TREATMENT OF SENATE JOINT RESO-
LUTION
IN
HOUSE.—In the House of Rep-
resentatives, the following procedures shall 
apply to a joint resolution of disapproval re-
ceived from the Senate (unless the House has 
already passed a joint resolution relating to the 
same proposed action): 
‘‘(i) The joint resolution shall be re-
ferred to the appropriate committees. 
‘‘(ii) If a committee to which a joint 
resolution has been referred has not re-
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ported the joint resolution within 7 days 
after the date of referral, that committee 
shall be discharged from further consider-
ation of the joint resolution. 
‘‘(iii) Beginning on the third legisla-
tive day after each committee to which a 
joint resolution has been referred reports 
the joint resolution to the House or has 
been discharged from further consideration 
thereof, it shall be in order to move to pro-
ceed to consider the joint resolution in the 
House. All points of order against the mo-
tion are waived. Such a motion shall not be 
in order after the House has disposed of a 
motion to proceed on the joint resolution. 
The previous question shall be considered 
as ordered on the motion to its adoption 
without intervening motion. The motion 
shall not be debatable. A motion to recon-
sider the vote by which the motion is dis-
posed of shall not be in order. 
‘‘(iv) The joint resolution shall be con-
sidered as read. All points of order against 
the joint resolution and against its consid-
eration are waived. The previous question 
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shall be considered as ordered on the joint 
resolution to final passage without inter-
vening motion except 2 hours of debate 
equally divided and controlled by the spon-
sor of the joint resolution (or a designee) 
and an opponent. A motion to reconsider 
the vote on passage of the joint resolution 
shall not be in order. 
‘‘(B) TREATMENT OF HOUSE JOINT RESO-
LUTION IN SENATE.— 
‘‘(i) If, before the passage by the Sen-
ate of a joint resolution of disapproval, the 
Senate receives an identical joint resolution 
from the House of Representatives, the fol-
lowing procedures shall apply: 
‘‘(I) That joint resolution shall 
not be referred to a committee. 
‘‘(II) With respect to that joint 
resolution— 
‘‘(aa) the procedure in the 
Senate shall be the same as if no 
joint resolution had been received 
from the House of Representa-
tives; but 
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‘‘(bb) the vote on passage 
shall be on the joint resolution 
from the House of Representa-
tives. 
‘‘(ii) If, following passage of a joint 
resolution of disapproval in the Senate, the 
Senate receives an identical joint resolution 
from the House of Representatives, that 
joint resolution shall be placed on the ap-
propriate Senate calendar. 
‘‘(iii) If a joint resolution of dis-
approval is received from the House, and 
no companion joint resolution has been in-
troduced in the Senate, the Senate proce-
dures under this subsection shall apply to 
the House joint resolution. 
‘‘(C) APPLICATION
TO
REVENUE
MEAS-
URES.—The provisions of this paragraph shall 
not apply in the House of Representatives to a 
joint resolution of disapproval that is a revenue 
measure. 
‘‘(8) RULES OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AND SENATE.—This subsection is enacted by Con-
gress— 
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‘‘(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking 
power of the Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives, respectively, and as such is deemed 
a part of the rules of each House, respectively, 
and supersedes other rules only to the extent 
that it is inconsistent with such rules; and 
‘‘(B) with full recognition of the constitu-
tional 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. 
‘‘(e) RENEWAL OF DETERMINATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, with 
the concurrence of the Secretary of State, shall 
renew a determination under subsection (b) every 5 
years. 
‘‘(2) REPORT.—Upon renewing a determination 
under subsection (b), the Attorney General shall file 
a report with the Committee on the Judiciary and 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 
and the Committee on the Judiciary and the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-
resentatives describing— 
‘‘(A) the reasons for the renewal; 
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‘‘(B) any substantive changes to the agree-
ment or to the relevant laws or procedures of 
the foreign government since the original deter-
mination or, in the case of a second or subse-
quent renewal, since the last renewal; and 
‘‘(C) how the agreement has been imple-
mented and what problems or controversies, if 
any, have arisen as a result of the agreement 
or its implementation. 
‘‘(3) NONRENEWAL.—If a determination is not 
renewed under paragraph (1), the agreement shall 
no longer be considered to satisfy the requirements 
of this section. 
‘‘(f) PUBLICATION.—Any determination or certifi-
cation under subsection (b) regarding an executive agree-
ment under this section, including any termination or re-
newal of such an agreement, shall be published in the Fed-
eral Register as soon as is reasonably practicable. 
‘‘(g) MINIMIZATION PROCEDURES.—A United States 
authority that receives the content of a communication de-
scribed in subsection (b)(3)(H) from a foreign government 
in accordance with an executive agreement under this sec-
tion shall use procedures that, to the maximum extent pos-
sible, meet the definition of minimization procedures in 
section 101 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 
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of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801) to appropriately protect non-
publicly available information concerning United States 
persons.’’. 
(b) TABLE OF SECTIONS AMENDMENT.—The table of 
sections for chapter 119 of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
2522 the following: 
‘‘2523. Executive agreements on access to data by foreign governments.’’. 
SEC. 6. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in this Act, or the amendments made by this 
Act, shall be construed to preclude any foreign authority 
from obtaining assistance in a criminal investigation or 
prosecution pursuant to section 3512 of title 18, United 
States Code, section 1782 of title 28, United States Code, 
or as otherwise provided by law. 
Æ 
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