Title: No Hearing, No Vote Act of 2017
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
No Hearing, No Vote Act of 2017
This bill amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to prohibit the Senate from considering any reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution, unless:
An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Senators, duly chosen and sworn, is required to either: (1) waive or suspend the requirements of this bill, or (2) sustain an appeal of the ruling of the chair on a point of order raised, with respect to the requirements.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1376 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1376

 To ensure that all fast-tracked reconciliation bills are subject to a 
               committee hearing, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 15, 2017

   Mr. Schumer (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Wyden, Mrs. Murray, Mr. 
   Sanders, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Booker, Mr. 
Brown, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Carper, Mr. Casey, Mr. Coons, Ms. 
 Cortez Masto, Ms. Duckworth, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Franken, Ms. Harris, 
    Ms. Hassan, Mr. Heinrich, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Kaine, Mr. King, Ms. 
Klobuchar, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Markey, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Nelson, 
   Mr. Peters, Mr. Reed, Mr. Schatz, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. 
 Udall, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Warren, and Mr. Whitehouse) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                               the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that all fast-tracked reconciliation bills are subject to a 
               committee hearing, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Hearing, No Vote Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. COMMITTEE HEARINGS FOR RECONCILIATION BILLS.

    (a) In General.--Section 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 (2 U.S.C. 641) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(h) Committee Hearings for Reconciliation Bills.--It shall not be 
in order in the Senate to consider any reconciliation bill or 
reconciliation resolution, unless--
            ``(1) the reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution 
        was--
                    ``(A) ordered reported to the Senate under 
                subsection (b)(1) by the committee of the Senate 
                receiving reconciliation instructions; or
                    ``(B) reported by the Committee on the Budget of 
                the Senate under subsection (b)(2) after receiving 
                recommendations ordered to be reported to the Committee 
                on the Budget by 1 or more committees of the Senate 
                receiving reconciliation instructions; and
            ``(2) each committee that ordered reported the 
        reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution or ordered 
        recommendations to be reported to the Committee on the Budget 
        held not less than 1 hearing regarding any major provision of 
        the reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution within the 
        jurisdiction of such committee.''.
    (b) Waiver and Appeal.--Section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting ``310(h),'' after 
        ``310(d)(2),''; and
            (2) in subsection (d)(2), by inserting ``310(h),'' after 
        ``310(d)(2),''.
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