[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
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[H. Res. 560 Engrossed in House (EH)]


H. Res. 560

                 In the House of Representatives, U.S.,

                                                     November 17, 2005.
    Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order 
without intervention of any point of order to consider in the House the bill 
(H.R. 4241) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(a) of the 
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006. The bill shall be 
considered as read. The amendment printed in the report of the Committee on 
Rules accompanying this resolution shall be considered as adopted. All points of 
order against provisions in the bill, as amended, are waived. The previous 
question shall be considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, to final 
passage without intervening motion except: (1) two hours of debate equally 
divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on the Budget; and (2) one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions.
    Sec. 2. During consideration of H.R. 4241 pursuant to this resolution, 
notwithstanding the operation of the previous question, the Chair may postpone 
further consideration of the bill to a time designated by the Speaker.
    Sec. 3. After passage of H.R. 4241, it shall be in order to take from the 
Speaker's table S. 1932 and to consider the Senate bill in the House. All points 
of order against the Senate bill and against its consideration are waived. It 
shall be in order to move to strike all after the enacting clause of the Senate 
bill and to insert in lieu thereof the provisions of H.R. 4241 as passed by the 
House. All points of order against that motion are waived.
    Sec. 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this resolution, the 
amendment considered as adopted under the first section of this resolution shall 
be modified as specified in section 5.
    Sec. 5. The modification referred to in section 4 is as follows:
    Page 13, strike lines 5 through 11, and insert the following:
    ``(a) Eligible Households.--The Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
2011 et seq.) is amended--
            ``(1) in section 5--
                    ``(A) in the 2d sentence of subsection (a); and
                    ``(B) in subsection (j);
        by striking `receives benefits' each place it appears and 
        inserting `in fiscal years 2006 through 2010 receives cash 
        assistance, and in any other fiscal year receives benefits,';
            ``(2) in section 5(a) by adding at the end the following:
`Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act except sections 6(b), 
6(d)(2), and 6(g) and section 3(i)(4), households in which each member 
receives substantial and ongoing noncash benefits under a State program 
funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
601 et seq.) provided for purposes of shelter, utilities, child care, 
health care, transportation, or job training, and that have a monthly 
income that does not exceed (before the exclusions and deductions 
provided for in subsections (d) and (e)) 150 percent of the poverty 
line, as defined in section 673(2) of the Community Services Block 
Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)), for the forty-eight contiguous States 
and the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, the Virgin Islands of the 
United States, and Guam, respectively, shall be eligible to participate 
in the food stamp program.'; and
            ``(3) in section 5(j) by adding at the end the following:
`Notwithstanding subsections (a) through (i), a State agency shall 
consider a member of a household in which each household member 
receives substantial and ongoing noncash benefits under a State program 
funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
601 et seq.) provided for purposes of shelter, utilities, child care, 
health care, transportation, or job training, and which has a monthly 
income that does not exceed (before the exclusions and deductions 
provided for in subsections (d) and (e)) 150 percent of the poverty 
line, as defined in section 673(2) of the Community Services Block 
Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)), for the forty-eight contiguous States 
and the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, the Virgin Islands of the 
United States, and Guam, respectively, to have satisfied the resource 
limitations prescribed under subsection (g).'.''.
    Page 331, at the end of line 13, add the following:
``Such method shall provide that not less than 25 percent of such funds 
shall be allocated among States the population of which (as determined 
according to data collected by the United States Census Bureau) as of 
July 1, 2004, was more than 105 percent of the population of the 
respective State (as so determined) as of April 1, 2000.''.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.