Title: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3648) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the per-country numerical limitation for employment-based immigrants, to increase the per-country numerical limitation for family-sponsored immigrants, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7946) to provide benefits for noncitizen members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3648) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the per-country numerical limitation for employment-based immigrants, to increase the per-country numerical limitation for family-sponsored immigrants, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7946) to provide benefits for noncitizen members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1508 Engrossed in House (EH)]

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H. Res. 1508

                In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

                                                      December 6, 2022.
    Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to 
consider in the House the bill (H.R. 3648) to amend the Immigration and 
Nationality Act to eliminate the per-country numerical limitation for 
employment-based immigrants, to increase the per-country numerical limitation 
for family-sponsored immigrants, and for other purposes. All points of order 
against consideration of the bill are waived. The amendment in the nature of a 
substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the 
bill, modified by the amendment printed in part A of the report of the Committee 
on Rules accompanying this resolution, shall be considered as adopted. The bill, 
as amended, shall be considered as read. All points of order against provisions 
in the bill, as amended, are waived. The previous question shall be considered 
as ordered on the bill, as amended, and on any further amendment thereto, to 
final passage without intervening motion except: (1) one hour of debate equally 
divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee 
on the Judiciary or their respective designees; (2) the further amendment 
printed in part B of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this 
resolution, if offered by the Member designated in the report, which shall be in 
order without intervention of any point of order, shall be considered as read, 
shall be separately debatable for the time specified in the report equally 
divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, and shall not be 
subject to a demand for division of the question; and (3) one motion to 
recommit.
    Sec. 2.  Upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider 
in the House the bill (H.R. 7946) to provide benefits for noncitizen members of 
the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. All points of order against 
consideration of the bill are waived. The amendment in the nature of a 
substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill 
shall be considered as adopted. The bill, as amended, shall be considered as 
read. All points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended, are 
waived. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill, as 
amended, and on any further amendment thereto, to final passage without 
intervening motion except: (1) one hour of debate equally divided and controlled 
by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary or 
their respective designees; (2) the further amendment printed in part C of the 
report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, if offered by the 
Member designated in the report, which shall be in order without intervention of 
any point of order, shall be considered as read, shall be separately debatable 
for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the 
proponent and an opponent, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of 
the question; and (3) one motion to recommit.
    Sec. 3. (a) At any time through the legislative day of Thursday, December 8, 
2022, the Speaker may entertain motions offered by the Majority Leader or a 
designee that the House suspend the rules as though under clause 1 of rule XV 
with respect to multiple measures described in subsection (b), and the Chair 
shall put the question on any such motion without debate or intervening motion.
    (b) A measure referred to in subsection (a) includes any measure that was 
the object of a motion to suspend the rules on the legislative day of December 
5, 2022, December 6, 2022, December 7, 2022, or December 8, 2022, in the form as 
so offered, on which the yeas and nays were ordered and further proceedings 
postponed pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX.
    (c) Upon the offering of a motion pursuant to subsection (a) concerning 
multiple measures, the ordering of the yeas and nays on postponed motions to 
suspend the rules with respect to such measures is vacated to the end that all 
such motions are considered as withdrawn.
    Sec. 4.  Notwithstanding clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on a vote 
by the yeas and nays on the question of adoption of a motion that the House 
suspend the rules offered on the legislative day of December 5, 2022 may be 
postponed through the legislative day of December 8, 2022.
    Sec. 5.  The requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII for a two-thirds vote 
to consider a report from the Committee on Rules on the same day it is presented 
to the House is waived with respect to any resolution reported through the 
remainder of the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.