I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3857 
To establish requirements for the consideration of supplemental appropriation 
bills. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 16, 2007 
Mr. NEUGEBAUER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Rules 
A BILL 
To establish requirements for the consideration of 
supplemental appropriation bills. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SINGLE PURPOSE. 
It shall not be in order in the House of Representa-
tives or the Senate to consider any measure making sup-
plemental appropriations for two or more unrelated emer-
gencies. 
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SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF EMERGENCY SPENDING LEGISLA-
TION. 
(a) POINT OF ORDER.—(1) A provision containing 
any spending that is not designated as emergency spend-
ing may not be reported in a measure making supple-
mental appropriations. 
(2) It shall not be in order in the House of Represent-
atives or the Senate to consider the conference report on 
any measure making supplemental appropriations if such 
measure contains any spending that is not designated as 
emergency spending. 
(3) It shall not be in order in the House of Represent-
atives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, 
or conference report if the accompanying report or joint 
statement of managers, as applicable, does not comply 
with subsection (b). 
(b) COMMITTEE NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY LEG-
ISLATION.—Whenever the Committee on Appropriations 
or any other committee of the House of Representatives 
or the Senate (including a committee of conference) re-
ports any bill or joint resolution that provides budget au-
thority for any emergency, the report accompanying that 
bill or joint resolution (or the joint explanatory statement 
of managers in the case of a conference report on any such 
bill or joint resolution) shall identify all provisions that 
provide budget authority and the outlays flowing there-
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from for such emergency and include a statement of the 
reasons why such budget authority meets the definition 
of an emergency and a justification of why such funding 
is in a supplemental appropriation and not the regular ap-
propriation for the next fiscal year. 
(c) DEFINITION OF EMERGENCY.—(1) As used in 
this section, the term ‘‘emergency’’ means a situation 
that— 
(A) requires new budget authority and outlays 
(or new budget authority and the outlays flowing 
therefrom) for the prevention or mitigation of, or re-
sponse to, loss of life or property, or a threat to na-
tional security; and 
(B) is unanticipated. 
(2) As used in paragraph (1), the term ‘‘unantici-
pated’’ means that the situation is— 
(A) sudden, which means quickly coming into 
being or not building up over time; 
(B) urgent, which means a pressing and com-
pelling need requiring immediate action; 
(C) unforeseen, which means not predicted or 
anticipated as an emerging need; and 
(D) temporary, which means not of a perma-
nent duration. 
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SEC. 3. TREATMENT OF EARMARKS. 
(a) POINTS OF ORDER.—(1) A provision containing 
an earmark may not be reported in a measure making sup-
plemental appropriations. 
(2) It shall not be in order in the House of Represent-
atives or the Senate to consider the conference report on 
any measure making supplemental appropriations if such 
measure contains any earmarks. 
(b) DEFINITION
OF EARMARK.—As used in sub-
section (a), the term ‘‘earmark’’ has the meaning given 
to the term ‘‘congressional earmark’’ in clause 9(d) of rule 
XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives, One 
Hundred Tenth Congress. 
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