[House Report 115-331]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


115th Congress    }                                    {       Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session      }                                    {      115-331

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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H.R. 2824) TO AMEND TITLE V OF 
   THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT TO EXTEND THE MATERNAL, INFANT, AND EARLY 
  CHILDHOOD HOME VISITING PROGRAM; PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE 
   BILL (H.R. 2792) TO AMEND THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT TO MAKE CERTAIN 
REVISIONS TO PROVISIONS LIMITING PAYMENT OF BENEFITS TO FUGITIVE FELONS 
  UNDER TITLES II, VIII, AND XVI OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT; AND FOR 
                             OTHER PURPOSES

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 September 25, 2017.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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               Mr. Burgess, from the Committee on Rules, 
                        submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 533]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 533, by a record vote of 9 to 2, report the 
same to the House with the recommendation that the resolution 
be adopted.

                SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE RESOLUTION

    The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 2824, the 
Increasing Opportunity and Success for Children and Parents 
through Evidence-Based Home Visiting Act, under a structured 
rule. The resolution provides one hour of general debate 
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Ways and Means. The 
resolution waives all points of order against consideration of 
the bill. The resolution makes in order as original text for 
the purpose of amendment an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 115-
33 and provides that it shall be considered as read. The 
resolution waives all points of order against that amendment in 
the nature of a substitute. The resolution makes in order only 
the further amendments printed in this report. Each such 
amendment may be offered only in the order printed in this 
report, may be offered only by a Member designated in this 
report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the 
time specified in this report equally divided and controlled by 
the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to 
amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of 
the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. The 
resolution waives all points of order against the amendments 
printed in this report. The resolution provides one motion to 
recommit with or without instructions.
    Section 2 of the resolution provides for consideration of 
H.R. 2792, the Control Unlawful Fugitive Felons Act of 2017, 
under a closed rule. The resolution provides one hour of debate 
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Ways and Means. The 
resolution waives all points of order against consideration of 
the bill. The resolution provides that the amendment in the 
nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Ways and 
Means now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted 
and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. The 
resolution waives all points of order against provisions in the 
bill, as amended. The resolution provides one motion to 
recommit with or without instructions.
    Section 3 of the resolution directs the Clerk to, in the 
engrossment of H.R. 2824, add the text of H.R. 2792, as passed 
by the House, as a new matter at the end of H.R. 2824 and to 
make conforming modifications in the engrossment.

                         EXPLANATION OF WAIVERS

    The waiver of all points of order against consideration of 
H.R. 2824 includes a waiver of the following:
     Section 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act, 
which prohibits consideration of legislation providing new 
budget authority in excess of a 302(a) allocation of such 
authority.
     Section 303 of the Congressional Budget Act, which 
prohibits consideration of legislation, providing a change in 
revenues for a fiscal year until the budget resolution for that 
year has been agreed to.
    The waiver of all points of order against the amendment in 
the nature of a substitute to H.R. 2824 made in order as 
original text, includes a waiver of Clause 4 of rule XXI, which 
prohibits reporting a bill or joint resolution carrying an 
appropriation from a committee not having jurisdiction to 
report an appropriation.
    Although the resolution waives all points of order against 
the amendments to H.R. 2824 printed in this report, the 
Committee is not aware of any points of order. The waiver is 
prophylactic in nature.
    Although the resolution waives all points of order against 
consideration of H.R. 2792, the Committee is not aware of any 
points of order. The waiver is prophylactic in nature.
    Although the resolution waives all points of order against 
provisions in H.R. 2792, the Committee is not aware of any 
points of order. The waiver is prophylactic in nature.

                            COMMITTEE VOTES

    The results of each record vote on an amendment or motion 
to report, together with the names of those voting for and 
against, are printed below:

Rules Committee record vote No. 112

    Motion by Mr. Cole to report the rule. Adopted: 9-2

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                Majority Members                      Vote               Minority Members               Vote
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Mr. Cole........................................          Yea   Ms. Slaughter.....................  ............
Mr. Woodall.....................................          Yea   Mr. McGovern......................          Nay
Mr. Burgess.....................................          Yea   Mr. Hastings of Florida...........          Nay
Mr. Collins.....................................          Yea   Mr. Polis.........................  ............
Mr. Byrne.......................................          Yea
Mr. Newhouse....................................          Yea
Mr. Buck........................................          Yea
Ms. Cheney......................................          Yea
Mr. Sessions, Chairman..........................          Yea
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          SUMMARY OF THE AMENDMENTS TO H.R. 2824 MADE IN ORDER

    1. Smith, Adrian (NE): Allows states to take into account 
staffing, community resource, and other requirements when 
determining how to operate at least one home visiting model in 
communities in need of services. (10 minutes)
    2. Pascrell (NJ): Maintains MIECHV's current focus of 
funding evidence-based home visiting programs that strengthen 
families to make kids healthier, safer, and more ready to learn 
when they start school by striking the provision in the bill 
that would add ``increasing employment and earnings'' to the 
program's measured outcomes. (10 minutes)
    3. DelBene (WA), O'Halleran (AZ): Eliminates the bill's 
matching requirement for tribal home visiting programs. (10 
minutes)
    4. Murphy, Stephanie (FL), Gonzalez-Colon (PR): Requires 
HRSA, to the extent it continues to allocate Home Visiting 
funding to states and territories based in whole or in part on 
the relative share of families with young children living at or 
below the federal poverty line in each state and territory, to 
utilize the most accurate federal data available for each 
jurisdiction. (10 minutes)

             TEXT OF AMENDMENTS TO H.R. 2824 MADE IN ORDER

 1. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Smith of Nebraska or 
                 His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 5, beginning on line 17, strike ``of the service 
delivery model or models that the eligible entity may need to 
develop for the model to operate'' and inserting ``to operate 
at least 1 approved model of home visiting''.
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  2. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Pascrell Jr. of New 
            Jersey or His Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 5, strike lines 21 through 26.
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 3. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative DelBene of Washington 
               or Her Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 9, line 16, strike ``Organization'' and all that follows 
through line 21 and insert ``Organization, 100 percent.''.
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 4. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Murphy of Florida or 
                 Her Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes

  Page 14, after line 9, insert the following:

SEC. 11. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.

  Section 511(j) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 711(j)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
          ``(4) Allocation of funds.--To the extent that the 
        grant amount awarded under this section to an eligible 
        entity is determined on the basis of relative 
        population or poverty considerations, the Secretary 
        shall make the determination using the most accurate 
        Federal data available for the eligible entity.''.

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