eration of such bill, and such bill shall be placed on 
the appropriate calendar of the House involved. 
(4) CONSIDERATION.—(A) On or after the third 
day after the date on which the committee to which 
such a bill is referred has reported or has been dis-
charged (under paragraph (3)) from further consid-
eration of such a bill, it is in order (even though a 
previous motion to the same effect has been dis-
agreed to) for any Member of the respective House 
to move to proceed to the consideration of the bill. 
A Member may make the motion only on the day 
after the calendar day on which the Member an-
nounces to the House concerned the Member’s inten-
tion to make the motion, except that, in the case of 
the House of Representatives, the motion may be 
made without such prior announcement if the mo-
tion is made by direction of the committee to which 
the bill was referred. All points of order against the 
bill (and against consideration of the bill) are 
waived. The motion is highly privileged in the House 
of Representatives and is privileged in the Senate 
and is not debatable. The motion is not subject to 
amendment, or to a motion to postpone, or to a mo-
tion to proceed to the consideration of other busi-
ness. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the 
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motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall not be in 
order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of 
the bill is agreed to, the respective House shall im-
mediately proceed to consideration of the joint bill 
without intervening motion, order, or other business, 
and the bill shall remain the unfinished business of 
the respective House until disposed of. 
(B) Debate on the bill, and on all debatable mo-
tions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be 
limited to not more than 10 hours, which shall be 
divided equally between those favoring and those op-
posing the bill. An amendment to the bill is not in 
order, except that a single amendment which is en-
tirely clerical in nature may be offered by a Member 
favoring the bill. A motion further to limit debate is 
in order and not debatable. A motion to postpone, 
or a motion to proceed to the consideration of other 
business, or a motion to recommit the bill is not in 
order. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the 
bill is agreed to or disagreed to is not in order. 
(C) Immediately following the conclusion of the 
debate on a bill described in paragraph (1) and a 
single quorum call at the conclusion of the debate if 
requested in accordance with the rules of the appro-
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priate House, the vote on final passage of the bill 
shall occur. 
(D) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair re-
lating to the application of the rules of the Senate 
or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, 
to the procedure relating to a bill described in para-
graph (1) shall be decided without debate. 
(5) CONSIDERATION BY OTHER HOUSE.—(A) If, 
before the passage by one House of a bill of that 
House described in paragraph (1), that House re-
ceives from the other House a bill described in para-
graph (1), then the following procedures shall apply: 
(i) The bill of the other House shall not be 
referred to a committee and may not be consid-
ered in the House receiving it except in the case 
of final passage as provided in clause (ii)(II). 
(ii) With respect to a bill described in 
paragraph (1) of the House receiving the bill— 
(I) the procedure in that House shall 
be the same as if no bill had been received 
from the other House; but 
(II) the vote on final passage shall be 
on the bill of the other House. 
(B) Upon disposition of the bill received from 
the other House, it shall no longer be in order to 
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consider the bill that originated in the receiving 
House. 
(6) EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING AUTHORITY.— 
This subsection is enacted by Congress— 
(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power 
of the Senate and House of Representatives, re-
spectively, and as such it is deemed a part of 
the rules of each House, respectively, but appli-
cable only with respect to the procedure to be 
followed in that House in the case of a bill de-
scribed in paragraph (1), and it supersedes 
other rules only to the extent that it is incon-
sistent 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. 
SEC. 7. MEMBER OF THE HOUSE DEFINED. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘Member of the House of Rep-
resentatives’’ included a Delegate or Resident Commis-
sioner to the Congress. 
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SEC. 8. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
Except as provided in sections 5(a) and 6, this Act 
shall apply with respect to elections occurring during 2016 
or any succeeding year. 
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