Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the consideration of a concurrent resolution to provide for a recess of the House after July 31 of any year unless the House has approved each regular appropriation bill for the next fiscal year.

Bill: 116-hres-20
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2019-01-03
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations

Congressional operations and organization

Legislative rules and procedure
Latest action: action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Stay on Schedule (S.O.S.) Resolution</b></p> <p>This resolution amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order for the House to consider a concurrent resolution for its adjournment during any day in August of any calendar year until the House has passed by July 31 of that year each of the regular appropriation bills for the fiscal year beginning on October 1.</p>

tv_txt: IV 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 20 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2019 Mr. Wittman submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules RESOLUTION Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the consideration of a concurrent resolution to provide for a recess of the House after July 31 of any year unless the House has approved each regular appropriation bill for the next fiscal year.

1. Short title This resolution may be cited as the Stay on Schedule (S.O.S.) Resolution . 2. Prohibiting recess during August until approval of all regular appropriation bills Rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new clause: Concurrent resolution providing for adjournment during August 13. If by July 31 of any calendar year the House has not passed each of the regular appropriation bills for the fiscal year which begins on October 1 of that calendar year, it shall not be in order to consider a concurrent resolution to provide that the House stand adjourned during any day occurring during August of that calendar year until the House has passed each such bill. For purposes of this clause, term regular appropriation bill means any annual appropriation bill which is under the jurisdiction of a single subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives (as may be provided under the Rules for the fiscal year involved). .