Title: No Hearing, No Vote Act of 2021
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
No Hearing, No Vote Act of 2021
This bill prohibits the Senate from considering a budget reconciliation bill unless at least one committee hearing has been held regarding the bill. (Reconciliation bills are considered by Congress using expedited legislative procedures that prevent a filibuster and restrict amendments in the Senate.)
Specifically, the bill prohibits the Senate from considering a reconciliation bill unless (1) the bill was reported by a committee that received reconciliation instructions or by the Senate Budget Committee after receiving recommendations from committees that received instructions, and (2) each committee that reported the bill or ordered recommendations to be reported to the Senate Budget Committee held at least one hearing regarding any major provision of the bill that is within the jurisdiction of the committee.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2823 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2823

 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

                           September 23, 2021

    Mr. Braun (for himself, Mr. Burr, Mr. Inhofe, Mrs. Capito, Mr. 
   Barrasso, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Crapo, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Lankford, Mr. 
 Risch, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Hagerty, Mr. 
 Hoeven, and Mr. Rounds) 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 2021''.

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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