    [House Calendars for May 18, 2021 - 117th Congress, 1st Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]

                               UNFINISHED BUSINESS

                    2021
    H.R. 2704                            A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the equal
      May 17                              employment opportunity functions of Department of Veterans Affairs, and
                                          for other purposes. (Pending is the vote on the motion to suspend the
                                          rules and pass.)

    H.R. 2788                            A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the cap on full-
      May 17                              time employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs who provide equal
                                          employment opportunity counseling. (Pending is the vote on the motion to
                                          suspend the rules and pass.)

    H.R. 240                             A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of
      May 17                              Labor to prioritize the provision of services to homeless veterans with
                                          dependents in carrying out homeless veterans reintegration programs, and
                                          for other purposes. (Pending is the vote on the motion to suspend the
                                          rules and pass.)

    H.R. 711                             A bill to amend the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016 to authorize the
      May 17                              use of certain funds received pursuant to leases entered into under such
                                          Act, and for other purposes. (Pending is the vote on the motion to suspend
                                          the rules and pass, as amended.)

    H.R. 2167                            A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for extensions of
      May 17                              the time limitations for use of entitlement under Department of Veterans
                                          Affairs educational assistance programs by reason of school closures due
                                          to emergency and other situations, and for other purposes. (Pending is the
                                          vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass, as amended.)

    H.R. 2878                            A bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a Native
      May 17                              VetSuccess at Tribal Colleges and Universities Pilot Program. (Pending is
                                          the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass, as amended.)

    H.R. 1510                            A bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress a
      May 17                              report on the use of cameras in medical centers of the Department of
                                          Veterans Affairs. (Pending is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules
                                          and pass, as amended.)

    H.R. 2494                            A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish in the
      May 17                              Department the Veterans Economic Opportunity and Transition
                                          Administration, and for other purposes. (Pending is the vote on the motion
                                          to suspend the rules and pass.)

    H.R. 2441                            A bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to expand the Rural
      May 17                              Access Network for Growth Enhancement Program of the Department of
                                          Veterans Affairs, and to direct the Comptroller General of the United
                                          States to conduct a study to assess certain mental health care resources
                                          of the Department of Veterans Affairs available to veterans who live in
                                          rural areas. (Pending is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and
                                          pass.)

    H.R. 1447                            A bill to amend the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act
      May 17                              of 2009 to establish an Ocean Acidification Advisory Board, to expand and
                                          improve the research on Ocean Acidification and Coastal Acidification, to
                                          establish and maintain a data archive system for Ocean Acidification data
                                          and Coastal Acidification data, and for other purposes. (Pending is the
                                          vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass, as amended.)

    H.R. 2533                            A bill to provide for a study by the National Academies of Sciences,
      May 17                              Engineering, and Medicine examining the impact of ocean acidification and
                                          other stressors in estuarine environments. (Pending is the vote on the
                                          motion to suspend the rules and pass.)

    H.R. 210                             A bill to coordinate Federal research and development efforts focused on
      May 17                              STEM education and workforce development in rural areas, including the
                                          development and application of new technologies to support and improve
                                          rural STEM education, and for other purposes. (Pending is the vote on the
                                          motion to suspend the rules and pass, as amended.)

    H.R. 144                             A bill to forestall the loss of research talent by establishing a temporary
      May 17                              early career research fellowship program. (Pending is the vote on the
                                          motion to suspend the rules and pass, as amended.)

    H.R. 204                             A bill to direct the Director of the Office of Science and Technology
      May 17                              Policy to carry out programs and activities to ensure that Federal science
                                          agencies and institutions of higher education receiving Federal research
                                          and development funding are fully engaging their entire talent pool, and
                                          for other purposes. (Pending is the vote on the motion to suspend the
                                          rules and pass, as amended.)

    H.R. 2027                            A bill to direct Federal science agencies and the Office of Science and
      May 17                              Technology Policy to undertake activities to improve the quality of
                                          undergraduate STEM education and enhance the research capacity at the
                                          Nation's HBCUs, TCUs, and MSIs, and for other purposes. (Pending is the
                                          vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass.)

    H.R. 2695                            A bill to provide for research to better understand the causes and
      May 17                              consequences of sexual harassment affecting individuals in the scientific,
                                          technical, engineering, and mathematics workforce and to examine policies
                                          to reduce the prevalence and negative impact of such harassment, and for
                                          other purposes. (Pending is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules
                                          and pass.)

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

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                                                                     Section
    Union Calendar....................................................     1
    House Calendar....................................................     2
    Private Calendar..................................................     3
    Consensus Calendar................................................     4
    Calendar of Motions to Discharge Committees.......................     5
    Public Laws.......................................................     6
    Private Laws......................................................     7
    History of Bills and Resolutions:
            House Bills...............................................     8
            House Joint Resolutions...................................     9
            House Concurrent Resolutions..............................    10
            House Resolutions.........................................    11
            Senate Bills..............................................    12
            Senate Joint Resolutions..................................    13
            Senate Concurrent Resolutions.............................    14
            Senate Resolutions........................................    15
    Reported Bills Referred under Time Limitations....................    16
    Bills in conference...............................................    17
    Bills through conference (printed the first legislative day of
        each week the House is in session)............................    18
    Index of Short Titles (printed the first legislative day of each
        week the House is in session).................................    19
    Index (printed the first legislative day of each week the House is
        in session)...................................................    20
    Calendar of year 2021 ............................................    21
    Status of major bills (first session) ............................    21

                   THE MORNING HOUR FOR THE CALL OF COMMITTEES

            Rule XIV, clause 4:
            ``4. After the unfinished business has been disposed of, the
    Speaker shall call each standing committee in regular order and then
    select committees. Each committee when named may call up for
    consideration a bill or resolution reported by it on a previous day and
    on the House Calendar. If the Speaker does not complete the call of the
    committees before the House passes to other business, the next call
    shall resume at the point it left off, giving preference to the last
    bill or resolution under consideration. A committee that has occupied
    the call for two days may not call up another bill or resolution until
    the other committees have been called in their turn.''
            Note.--Call rests with the Committee on Agriculture.

                           CALENDAR WEDNESDAY BUSINESS

            Rule XV, clause 6:
            ``6. (a) On Wednesday of each week, business shall not be in
    order before completion of the call of those committees (except as
    provided by clause 4 of rule XIV) whose chair, or other member
    authorized by the committee, has announced to the House a request for
    such call on the preceding legislative day.
            (b) A bill or resolution on either the House or the Union
    Calendar, except bills or resolutions that are privileged under the
    Rules of the House, may be called under this clause. A bill or
    resolution called up from the Union Calendar shall be considered in the
    Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union without motion,
    subject to clause 3 of rule XVI. General debate on a measure considered
    under this clause shall be confined to the measure and may not exceed
    two hours equally divided between a proponent and an opponent.
            (c) This clause does not apply during the last two weeks of a
    session of Congress.
            (d) Precedents, rulings, or procedures in effect before the One
    Hundred Eleventh Congress regarding the priority of business and the
    availability of other business on Wednesday shall be applied only to the
    extent consistent with this clause.''
            Note.--Call rests with the Committee on Agriculture.

                            SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE DAYS

    Calendar Wednesday..............    Wednesday of each week, when
                                        specifically noticed, except during
                                        the last 2 weeks of a session
                                        (clause 6, rule XV). Mondays of each
                                        month (clause 4, rule XV).
    Private Calendar................    First Tuesday of each month (clause
                                        5, rule XV).
    Suspension of rules.............    Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays
                                        and during the last 6 days of a
                                        session (clause 1, rule XV).