[House Calendars, Final - 108th Congress, 2nd Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


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                CALENDAR OF MOTIONS TO DISCHARGE COMMITTEES                

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      Rule XV, clause 2:
    ``2. (a) Motions to discharge committees shall be in order on the 
 second and fourth Mondays of a month. 
    ``(b)(1) A Member may present to the Clerk a motion in writing 
 to discharge_
    ``(A) a committee from consideration of a public bill or public 
 resolution that has been referred to it for 30 legislative days; or 
   ``(B) the Committee on Rules from consideration of a resolution 
that has been referred to it for seven legislative days and that 
proposes a special order of business for the consideration of a 
public bill or public resolution that has been reported by a 
standing committee or has been referred to a standing committee for 
30 legislative days. 
    ``(2) Only one motion may be presented for a bill or resolution. 
A Member may not file a motion to discharge the Committee on Rules 
from consideration of a resolution providing for the consideration 
of more than one public bill or public resolution or admitting or 
effecting a nongermane amendment to a public bill or public 
resolution. 
   ``(c) A motion presented under paragraph (b) shall be placed in 
the custody of the Clerk, who shall arrange a convenient place for 
the signatures of Members. A signature may be withdrawn by a Member 
in writing at any time before a motion is entered on the Journal.
 The Clerk shall make signatures a matter of public record, causing 
the names of the Members who have signed a discharge motion during 
a week to be published in a portion of the Congressional Record 
designated for that purpose on the last legislative day of the week 
and making cumulative lists of such names available each day for 
public inspection in an appropriate office of the House. The Clerk 
shall devise a means for making such lists available to offices of 
the House and to the public in electronic form. When a majority of 
the total membership of the House shall have signed the motion, it 
shall be entered on the Journal, printed with the signatures 
thereto in the Record, and referred to the Calendar of Motions to 
Discharge Committees. 
     ``(d)(1) On the second and fourth Mondays of a month (except 
during the last six days of a session of Congress), immediately 
after the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, a motion to discharge 
that has been on the calendar for at least seven legislative days 
shall be privileged if called up by a Member whose signature appears 
thereon. When such a motion is called up, the House shall proceed 
to its consideration under this paragraph without intervening motion 
except one motion to adjourn. Privileged motions to discharge shall 
have precedence in the order of their entry on the Journal. 
   ``(2) When a motion to discharge is called up, the bill or 
resolution to which it relates shall be read by title only. The 
motion is debatable for 20 minutes, one-half in favor of the motion 
and one-half in opposition thereto. 
   ``(e)(1) If a motion prevails to discharge the Committee on Rules 
 from consideration of a resolution, the House shall immediately 
consider the resolution, pending which the Speaker may entertain one 
motion that the House adjourn. After the result of such a motion to 
adjourn is announced, the Speaker may not entertain any other 
dilatory motion until the resolution has been disposed of. If the 
resolution is adopted, the House shall immediately proceed to its 
execution.
  ``(2) If a motion prevails to discharge a standing committee from 
 consideration of a public bill or public resolution, a motion that 
the House proceed to the immediate consideration of such bill or 
resolution shall be privileged if offered by a Member whose 
signature appeared on the motion to discharge. The motion to proceed 
is not debatable. If the motion to proceed is adopted, the bill or 
resolution shall be considered immediately under the general rules 
of the House. If unfinished before adjournment of the day on which 
it is called up, the bill or resolution shall remain the unfinished 
 business until it is disposed of. If the motion to proceed is 
rejected, the bill or resolution shall be referred to the 
appropriate calendar, where it shall have the same status as if the 
committee from which it was discharged had duly reported it to the 
House.
   ``(f)(1) When a motion to discharge originated under this clause 
has  once been acted on by the House, it shall not be in order to 
entertain  during the same session of Congress_
  ``(A) a motion to discharge a committee from consideration of 
that  bill or resolution or of any other bill or resolution that, by 
relating in substance to or dealing with the same subject matter, 
is substantially the same; or 
  ``(B) a motion to discharge the Committee on Rules from 
consideration of a resolution providing a special order of business 
for the consideration of that bill or resolution or of any other 
bill or resolution that, by relating in substance to or dealing with 
the same subject matter, is substantially the same.
   ``(2) A motion to discharge on the Calendar of Motions to 
Discharge Committees that is rendered out of order under subparagraph 
(1) shall be stricken from that calendar.''

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Motion No.                                                     Calen- 
 and date      Title           Committee   Motion filed by-    dar  
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     2004