    [House Calendars for December 8, 2016 - 114th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]

                    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 committee or has been referred to a
     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. p``(c) A motion presented under paragraph
     (b) shall be placed in the custody of the Clerk, who shall arrange a
     convenient place for the signatories 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 A signature may be withdrawn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, published with the signatories 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 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
     entered                                                            No.
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         2016

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