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on which the committee reports an implementa-
tion bill or is discharged under paragraph (3),
any Member of the House may announce to the
House the Member’s intention to move to pro-
ceed to the consideration of the implementation
bill. The following day, it shall be in order for
the Member to move to proceed to the consider-
ation of the bill, even if a previous motion is
disagreed to. The motion shall be highly privi-
leged and shall not be subject to amendment, 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 consideration of the
bill is agreed to, the House shall immediately
proceed to consideration of the bill without an
intervening motion, order, or other business,
and the bill shall remain the unfinished busi-
ness of the House until disposed of.
(B) POINTS
OF
ORDER.—All points of
order against an implementation bill and
against consideration of the bill shall be consid-
ered to be waived.
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(C) DEBATE.—Debate on an implementa-
tion bill, and on all debatable motions and ap-
peals in connection with the bill, shall be limited
to not more than 10 hours, which shall be di-
vided equally between the chairperson and the
ranking minority member of the committee that
considered the bill or their designees. A motion
further to limit debate shall be in order and
shall not be debatable. The following shall not
be in order:
(i) An amendment to the bill.
(ii) A motion to postpone.
(iii) A motion to proceed to the con-
sideration of other business.
(iv) A motion to recommit the bill.
(v) A motion to reconsider the vote by
which the bill is agreed to or disagreed to.
(D) FINAL PASSAGE.—Immediately follow-
ing the conclusion of the debate on an imple-
mentation bill and a single quorum call at the
conclusion of the debate, if requested in accord-
ance with the rules of the House, the vote on
final passage of the implementation bill shall
occur.
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(E) APPEALS FROM CHAIR.—Appeals from
the decisions of the Chair relating to the appli-
cation of the rules of the House to the proce-
dure relating to an implementation bill shall be
decided without debate.
(5) CONSIDERATION OF SENATE BILL.—If the
House receives an implementation bill regarding an
agency from the Senate before it passes its own im-
plementation bill regarding the same agency, then
the following procedures apply:
(A) REFERRAL.—The implementation bill
from the Senate shall not be referred to a com-
mittee.
(B) FLOOR CONSIDERATION.—The proce-
dure in the House shall be the same as if no
implementation bill had been received from the
Senate, except that the vote on final passage
shall be on the implementation bill received
from the Senate.
(C) FINAL
DISPOSITION.—Upon disposi-
tion of the implementation bill received from
the Senate, it shall no longer be in order to con-
sider the implementation bill that originated in
the House.
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(b) EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWER.—This sec-
tion is promulgated—
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of
the House of Representatives, and as such, it is
deemed a part of the rules of the House, except that
this section supersedes other rules of the House only
to the extent that it is inconsistent with such other
rules; and
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional
right of the House to change the rules at any time,
in the same manner, and to the same extent as in
the case of any other rule of the House.
SEC. 12. DURATION OF COMMISSION.
Section 14(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Advisory Commit-
tee Act (5 U.S.C. App.), relating to the termination of
advisory committees, shall not apply to the Commission.
SEC. 13. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Com-
mission to carry out its duties under this Act $1,000,000
for each fiscal year.
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