[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 428 Engrossed in House (EH)]


                 In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

                                                      November 5, 2003.
    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. 1829) to amend title 18, United States Code, to require Federal 
Prison Industries to compete for its contracts minimizing its unfair competition 
with private sector firms and their non-inmate workers and empowering Federal 
agencies to get the best value for taxpayers' dollars, to provide a five-year 
period during which Federal Prison Industries adjusts to obtaining inmate work 
opportunities through other than its mandatory source status, to enhance inmate 
access to remedial and vocational opportunities and other rehabilitative 
opportunities to better prepare inmates for a successful return to society, to 
authorize alternative inmate work opportunities in support of non-profit 
organizations, 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 one hour equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary. After general debate the bill 
shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. It shall be in 
order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the 
five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the 
Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill. Each section of the 
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be considered as read. 
During consideration of the bill for amendment, the Chairman of the Committee of 
the Whole may accord priority in recognition on the basis of whether the Member 
offering an amendment has caused it to be printed in the portion of the 
Congressional Record designated for that purpose in clause 8 of rule XVIII. 
Amendments so printed shall be considered as read. 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 committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. 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.