Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide for the consideration of reported bills or joint resolutions that have not been considered by the House within 60 calendar days.

Bill: 115-hres-42
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-52]
Introduced: 2017-01-10
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: House of Representatives

Legislative rules and procedure
Latest action: action_date: 2017-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends Rule XIV (Order and Priority of Business) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to authorize the chair and ranking minority member of a committee, or the chair and ranking minority member of its applicable subcommittee, if a bill or joint resolution reported by the committee has not been considered within 60 calendar days, to offer jointly a motion for consideration of the measure.</p>

tv_txt: IV 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 42 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 10, 2017 Mr. Peters (for himself, Mr. Marino , and Mr. Kilmer ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules RESOLUTION Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide for the consideration of reported bills or joint resolutions that have not been considered by the House within 60 calendar days.

1. Consideration Rule XIV of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new clause: 7. If a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee has not been considered within 60 calendar days, the chair and ranking minority member of that committee, or the chair and ranking minority member of the applicable subcommittee of that committee may jointly offer a motion under clause 4 or 5, as applicable, for the consideration of such bill or joint resolution. . 2. Effective date The amendment made by section 1 shall apply to bills or joint resolutions reported by any committee after the date of adoption of this resolution.