Title: Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives respecting budget-related points of order.
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require any Committee on Rules resolution for consideration of a bill or joint resolution waiving, or in effect waiving, a budget-related point of order to specify each such point of order.
Declares it in order to offer a privileged, unamendable motion to strike or amend to eliminate any provision of that resolution that waives, or in effect waives, the application of a budget-related point of order.
Makes it out of order to move to reconsider the vote by which such a motion is agreed to or disagreed to.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 47 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 47

 Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives respecting budget-
                        related points of order.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 12, 2017

 Mr. Renacci (for himself, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Amodei, and Mr. Westerman) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                                on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives respecting budget-
                        related points of order.

    Resolved, That rule XXI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new 
clause:
    ``13.(a) It shall not be in order to consider a resolution reported 
by the Committee on Rules providing for the consideration of a bill or 
joint resolution that waives, or has the effect of waiving, any budget-
related point of order unless the resolution specifies each such point 
of order.
    ``(b)(1) Upon consideration of a resolution reported by the 
Committee on Rules providing for the consideration of a bill or joint 
resolution, it shall be in order to offer a motion to strike or amend 
any provision of the resolution that waives, or has the effect of 
waiving, the application of a budget-related point of order in order to 
eliminate any such waiver from the resolution.
    ``(2) A motion made pursuant to subparagraph (1)--
            ``(A) shall be privileged;
            ``(B) shall be debatable for 20 minutes, divided evenly 
        between those in favor of the motion and those opposed to the 
        motion; and
            ``(C) may not be amended.
    ``(3) At the conclusion of any debate on a motion made pursuant to 
subparagraph (1), the previous question shall be considered as ordered. 
It shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the 
motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
    ``(c) In this clause, the term `budget-related point of order' 
means--
            ``(1) in the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 
        Act of 1974--
                    ``(A) section 302(f);
                    ``(B) section 303;
                    ``(C) section 306(b);
                    ``(D) section 311; or
                    ``(E) section 401; and
            ``(2) clause 10 of rule XXI.''.
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