(without amendment) to the Senate or
House of Representatives.
(B) LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR.—The bill re-
ported under subparagraph (A) shall be placed
on the legislative calendar of the appropriate
House.
(e) PROCEDURE IN SENATE AFTER REPORT OF COM-
MITTEE; DEBATE; AMENDMENTS.—
(1) DEBATE ON BILL.—Debate in the Senate
on a bill reported by the Committee on Govern-
mental Affairs under subsection (d)(3), and all
amendments thereto and debatable motions and ap-
peals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not
more than 30 hours. The time shall be equally di-
vided between, and controlled by, the majority leader
and minority leader or their designees.
(2) DEBATE ON AMENDMENTS.—Debate in the
Senate on any amendment to the bill shall be limited
to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and con-
trolled by, the mover and the manager of the bill,
and debate on any amendment to an amendment,
debatable motion, or appeal shall be limited to 30
minutes, to be equally divided between, and con-
trolled by, the mover and the manager of the bill, ex-
cept that in the event the manager of the bill is in
favor of any such amendment, motion or appeal, the
time in opposition thereto shall be controlled by the
minority leader or his designee.
(3) LIMIT OF DEBATE.—
(A) A motion to further limit debate is not
debatable. A motion by the majority leader or
his designee to extend debate is not debatable.
A motion to recommit is not in order.
(B) No amendment to the bill reported by
the Committee on Governmental Affairs under
subsection (d)(3) shall be in order unless—
(i) that amendment is confined to ter-
minating or reducing an inequitable Fed-
eral payment as defined by section 4 of
this Act;
(ii) that amendment is germane to the
bill reported by the Committee on Govern-
mental Affairs; and
(iii) for the purposes of such bill,
‘‘germane’’ means only amendments which
strike language from such bill, or restore
language in the bill or bills introduced
under subsection (c).
(4) CONFERENCE REPORTS.—
(A) MOTION TO PROCEED.—A motion to
proceed to the consideration of the conference
report on a bill subject to the procedures of this
section and reported to the Senate may be
made even though a previous motion to the
same effect has been disagreed to.
(B) TIME LIMITATION.—The consideration
in the Senate of the conference report on the
bill and any amendments in disagreement there-
to, including all debatable motions and appeals
in connection therewith, shall be limited to 5
hours, to be equally divided between, and con-
trolled by, the majority leader and minority
leader or their designees. Debate on any debat-
able motion, appeal related to the conference re-
port, or any amendment to an amendment in
disagreement, shall be limited to 30 minutes, to
be equally divided between, and controlled by,
the mover and the manager of the conference
report (or a message between Houses).
(f) PROCEDURE IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AFTER REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE; DEBATE.—
(1) MOTION TO CONSIDER.—When the Com-
mittee on Government Reform and Oversight of the
House of Representatives reports a bill under sub-
section (d)(3) it is in order (at any time after the
fifth day (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal
holidays) following the day on which any committee
report filed on a bill referred under subsection (d)(1)
to the Committee on Government Reform and Over-
sight has been available to Members of the House)
to move to proceed to the consideration of the bill
reported to the House of Representatives. The mo-
tion is highly privileged and is not debatable. An
amendment to the motion is not in order, and it is
not in order to move to reconsider the vote by which
the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
(2) DEBATE.—General debate on the bill in the
House of Representatives shall be limited to not
more than 10 hours, which shall be divided equally
between the majority and minority parties. A motion
further to limit debate is not debatable. A motion to
postpone debate is not in order, and it is not in
order to move to reconsider the vote by which the
bill is agreed to or disagreed to.
(3) TERMS OF CONSIDERATION.—Consideration
of the bill by the House of Representatives shall be
in the Committee of the Whole, and the bill shall be
considered for amendment under the 5-minute rule
in accordance with the applicable provisions of rule
XXIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives
for the 107th Congress. After the committee rises
and reports the bill back to the House, the previous
question shall be considered as ordered on the bill
and any amendments thereto to final passage with-
out intervening motion.
(4) LIMIT ON DEBATE.—Debate in the House
of Representatives on the conference report on a bill
subject to the procedures under this section and re-
ported to the House of Representatives shall be lim-
ited to not more than 5 hours, which shall be divided
equally between the majority and minority parties. A
motion further to limit debate is not debatable. A
motion to recommit the conference report is not in
order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider
the vote by which the conference report is agreed to
or disagreed to. A motion to postpone is not in
order.
(5) APPEALS.—Appeals from decisions of the
Chair relating to the application of the Rules of the
House of Representatives to the procedure relating
to the bill shall be decided without debate.
(g) RULES OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REP-
RESENTATIVES.—This section is enacted by Congress—
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of
the Senate and the House of Representatives, re-
spectively, but applicable only with respect to the
procedure to be followed in that House in the case
of a bill under this section, 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 as 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.
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