[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1473 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1473

  To provide for expedited consideration by Congress of supplemental 
appropriations bills for the Department of Defense and the Coast Guard 
               to meet critical national security needs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 4, 2001

 Mr. Jones of North Carolina introduced the following bill; which was 
                   referred to the Committee on Rules

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for expedited consideration by Congress of supplemental 
appropriations bills for the Department of Defense and the Coast Guard 
               to meet critical national security needs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Military Supplemental 
Procedures Act''.

SEC. 2. EXPEDITED CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN DEFENSE 
              SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS BILLS.

    (a) Qualifying Bill.--This section applies with respect to a 
qualifying defense supplemental appropriations bill. For purposes of 
this section, the term ``qualifying defense supplemental appropriations 
bill'' means a bill that states that the purpose of the bill is to meet 
critical national security needs and that otherwise only makes 
supplemental appropriations for any fiscal year for one or more of the 
following purposes:
            (1) Operation and maintenance for the Department of 
        Defense.
            (2) Military personnel for the Department of Defense.
            (3) Procurement of ammunition for the Department of 
        Defense.
            (4) Procurement for the Department of Defense (other than 
        ammunition) to replace a loss or expenditure of material.
            (5) Defense Health Program.
            (6) Military construction to repair or replace structures 
        damaged or destroyed by natural disaster.
            (7) Operating expenses of the Coast Guard.
    (b) Consideration in the House of Representatives.--A motion in the 
House of Representatives to resolve into the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union for consideration of a qualifying 
defense supplemental appropriations bill reported from the Committee on 
Appropriations shall be decided without intervening motion. A motion to 
reconsider the vote to resolve into the Committee of the Whole is not 
in order. Consideration of the bill in the Committee of the Whole may 
not extend for a period in excess of 10 hours. When the Committee on 
the Whole rises and reports the bill to the House, the previous 
question shall be considered as ordered on the bill to final passage 
without intervening motion except one motion to recommit with or 
without instructions. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill 
is passed is not in order.
    (c) Consideration in Senate.--(1)(A) A qualifying defense 
supplemental appropriations bill shall be considered in the Senate in 
accordance with the provisions of this subsection.
    (B) Such a bill received in the Senate from the House of 
Representatives shall be held at the desk in the Senate and may be 
considered in the Senate only in accordance with subsection (d). Such a 
bill introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate.
    (2) If after a period of 10 legislative days after the date of 
referral to it of a qualifying defense supplemental appropriations bill 
the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate has not reported the 
bill, that committee shall be discharged from further consideration of 
the bill and the bill shall be placed on the appropriate calendar.
    (3) On or after the third legislative day after the date on which 
the Committee on Appropriations has reported, or has been discharged 
(under paragraph (2)) from further consideration of, a qualifying 
defense supplemental appropriations bill, it is in order (even though a 
previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) for any 
Member of the Senate to move to proceed to the consideration of the 
bill. A Member may make the motion only on the day after the calendar 
day on which the Member announces to the Senate the Member's intention 
to make the motion. The motion is privileged and is not debatable. The 
motion is not subject to amendment, or to a motion to postpone, or to a 
motion to proceed to the consideration of other business. A motion to 
reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to is 
not in order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of the bill 
is agreed to, the Senate shall immediately proceed to consideration of 
the bill without intervening motion, order, or other business, and the 
bill shall remain the unfinished business of the Senate until disposed 
of.
    (4) Debate on the bill, and on all amendments thereto and debatable 
motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not 
more than a total of 10 hours, which shall be divided equally between 
those favoring and those opposing the bill. A motion to postpone, or a 
motion to proceed to the consideration of other business, or a motion 
to recommit the bill is not in order.
    (5) Debate on any amendment to the bill shall be limited to two 
hours, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and 
the manager of the bill, and debate on any amendment to an amendment, 
debatable motion, or appeal shall be limited to one hour, to be equally 
divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the 
bill, except that in the event the manager of the bill is in favor of 
any such amendment, motion, or appeal, the time in opposition thereto 
shall be controlled by the minority leader or his designee. No 
amendment that is not germane to the provisions of the bill shall be 
received.
    (6) A motion to further limit debate is not debatable. A motion to 
recommit (except a motion to recommit with instructions to report back 
within a specified number of days, not to exceed three, not counting 
any day on which the Senate is not in session) is not in order. Debate 
on any such motion to recommit shall be limited to one hour, to be 
equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager 
of the bill.
    (7) Immediately following the conclusion of the debate on the bill 
and a single quorum call at the conclusion of the debate if requested 
in accordance with the rules of the Senate, the vote on advancing the 
bill to third reading shall occur.
    (8) A motion to reconsider the vote by which third reading of the 
bill is agreed to or disagreed to is not in order.
    (9) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the 
application of the rules of the Senate to the procedure relating to a 
qualifying defense supplemental appropriations bill shall be decided 
without debate.
    (d) Action in Senate on Measure From House.--If, upon the ordering 
of the third reading of a qualifying defense supplemental 
appropriations bill in the Senate the Senate has received from the 
House of Representatives a qualifying defense supplemental 
appropriations bill that is being held at the desk pursuant to 
subsection (c)(1) or, if not, then upon the receipt from the House of 
Representatives of a qualifying defense supplemental appropriations 
bill, the following procedures shall apply:
            (1) if the bill received from the House of Representatives 
        is identical to the bill as advanced to third reading by the 
        Senate, the vote on final passage shall be on the bill of the 
        House of Representatives; and
            (2) if the bill received from the House is not identical to 
        the bill as advanced to third reading by the Senate--
                    (A) the bill received from the House shall be 
                considered as amended with the text and title (if 
                different) of the bill of the Senate;
                    (B) the vote on final passage shall be on the bill 
                of the House of Representatives as so amended; and
                    (C) a motion shall be in order to insist on the 
                amendment or amendments of the Senate and to request a 
                conference with the House of Representatives on the 
                disagreeing votes of the two Houses thereon.
    (e) Action in House on Request for Conference from the Senate.--
Upon receiving from the Senate a message that the Senate has passed 
with an amendment or amendments a qualifying defense supplemental 
appropriations bill and that the Senate insists upon its amendment or 
amendments and requests a conference of the two Houses on the 
disagreeing votes thereon, the House of Representatives shall be 
considered to have disagreed to the amendment or amendments of the 
Senate and agreed to the conference requested by the Senate.
    (f) Limitation Pending Conclusion of Conference.--After a 
conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on a qualifying 
defense supplemental appropriations bill has been agreed to under 
subsection (e), it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of 
Representatives to consider a motion to adjourn that House for a period 
of more than three days until the committee of conference has filed its 
report.
    (g) Senate Action on Conference Reports, etc.--(1) A motion in the 
Senate to proceed to the consideration of a conference report on a 
qualifying defense supplemental appropriations bill may be made even 
though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to.
    (2) During the consideration in the Senate of the conference report 
(or a message from the House) on qualifying defense supplemental 
appropriations bill, and all amendments in disagreement, and all 
amendments thereto, and debatable motions and appeals in connection 
therewith, debate shall be limited to five hours, to be equally divided 
between, and controlled by, the majority leader and minority leader or 
their designees. Debate on any debatable motion or appeal related to 
the conference report (or a message between Houses) shall be limited to 
one hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover 
and the manager of the conference report (or a message from the House).
    (3) Should the conference report be defeated in the Senate, debate 
on any request for a new conference and the appointment of conferees 
shall be limited to one hour, to be equally divided between, and 
controlled by, the manager of the conference report and the minority 
leader or his designee, and should any motion be made to instruct the 
conferees before the conferees are named, debate on such motion shall 
be limited to one-half hour, to be equally divided between, and 
controlled by, the mover and the manager of the conference report. 
Debate on any amendment to any such instructions shall be limited to 20 
minutes, to be equally divided between and controlled by the mover and 
the manager of the conference report. In all cases when the manager of 
the conference report is in favor of any motion, appeal, or amendment, 
the time in opposition shall be under the control of the minority 
leader or his designee.
    (4) In any case in which there are amendments in disagreement, time 
on each amendment shall be limited to 30 minutes, to be equally divided 
between, and controlled by, the manager of the conference report and 
the minority leader or his designee. No amendment that is not germane 
to the provisions of such amendments shall be received.
    (h) Legislative Day Defined.--For the purposes of this section, 
with respect to either House of Congress, a legislative day is a 
calendar day on which that House is in session.
    (i) Section Enacted as Exercise of Rulemaking Power of the Two 
Houses.--The provisions of this section are enacted by the Congress--
            (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and, as such, 
        shall be considered as part of the rules of either House and 
        shall supersede other rules only to the extent they are 
        inconsistent therewith; and
            (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as they relate to the 
        procedures of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and 
        to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that 
        House.
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