Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that general appropriations for military construction and veterans' affairs be considered as stand-alone measures.

Bill: 113-hres-13
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2013-01-03
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations

Budget process

Defense spending

Department of Defense

Department of Veterans Affairs

Executive agency funding and structure

House of Representatives

Legislative rules and procedure
Latest action: action_date: 2013-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order in the House to consider any legislation containing appropriations within the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations if such measure also contains appropriations within the jurisdiction of any other subcommittee of that Committee (other than any measure making supplemental appropriations or continuing appropriations for a maximum 60-day period). </p>

tv_txt: IV 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 13 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2013 Mr. Gingrey of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Westmoreland , Mr. Posey , and Mr. Conaway ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules RESOLUTION Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that general appropriations for military construction and veterans’ affairs be considered as stand-alone measures.

That rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new clause: Stand-alone requirement for military construction and veterans’ affairs appropriations 12. It shall not be in order to consider any bill or joint resolution, or conference report thereon, containing appropriations within the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations if such measure also contains appropriations within the jurisdiction of any other subcommittee of that committee. The preceding sentence shall not apply to any measure making supplemental appropriations or to any measure continuing appropriations for a period of not to exceed 60 days. .