[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 499 Engrossed in House (EH)]


                 In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

                                                          May 16, 2000.
    Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the Speaker 
may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the House resolved into the 
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of the 
bill (H.R. 853) to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for 
joint resolutions on the budget, reserve funds for emergency spending, 
strengthened enforcement of budgetary decisions, increased accountability for 
Federal spending, accrual budgeting for Federal insurance programs, mitigation 
of the bias in the budget process toward higher spending, modifications in paygo 
requirements when there is an on-budget surplus, and for other purposes. The 
first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. General debate shall be 
confined to the bill and shall not exceed 90 minutes, with 40 minutes equally 
divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on the Budget, 30 minutes equally divided and controlled by the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Rules, and 20 minutes 
equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of 
the Committee on Appropriations. After general debate the bill shall be 
considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. In lieu of the amendments 
recommended by the Committee on the Budget, the Committee on Rules, and the 
Committee on Appropriations now printed in the bill, it shall be in order to 
consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute 
rule an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of H.R. 
4397. That amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be considered as read. 
No amendment to that amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be in order 
except those printed in the report of the Committee on Rules. Each amendment may 
be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a 
Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable 
for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the 
proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be 
subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or in the 
Committee of the Whole. All points of order against the amendments printed in 
the report are waived. The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may: (1) 
postpone until a time during further consideration in the Committee of the Whole 
a request for a recorded vote on any amendment; and (2) reduce to five minutes 
the minimum time for electronic voting on any postponed question that follows 
another electronic vote without intervening business, provided that the minimum 
time for electronic voting on the first in any series of questions shall be 15 
minutes. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment the 
Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as 
may have been adopted. Any Member may demand a separate vote in the House on any 
amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to the bill or to the amendment 
in the nature of a substitute made in order as original text. The previous 
question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to 
final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit with or 
without instructions.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.