[Deschler-Brown Precedents, Volume 10, Chapter 28 (Sections 1-24), Volume 11, Chapter 28 (Sections 25-end, plus index)]
[Chapter 28. Amendments and the Germaneness Rule]
[E. Relation of Amendment or Bill to Existing Law]
[Â§ 40. Amendment Continuing Temporary Law to Bill Amending That Law]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                               CHAPTER 28
 
                  Amendments and the Germaneness Rule
 
            E. RELATION OF AMENDMENT OR BILL TO EXISTING LAW
 
Sec. 40. Amendment Continuing Temporary Law to Bill Amending That Law

National Housing Act

Sec. 40.1 To that part of a bill making certain substantive changes in 
    a section of the National Housing Act solely to limit the aggregate 
    amount of liability for all insurance thereunder, an amendment was 
    held to be not germane which also proposed to extend for an 
    additional period the temporary operation of provisions of such 
    section of the act.

    In the 75th Congress a bill (12) was under consideration 
to amend the National Housing Act. The bill stated in part: 
(13)
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12. S. 1228 (Committee on Banking and Currency).
13. 81 Cong. Rec. 3350, 75th Cong. 1st Sess., Apr. 9, 1937.
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        Sec. 2. The third sentence of subsection (a) of section 2 of 
    the National Housing Act, as amended, is amended to read as 
    follows: ``The total liability incurred by the Administrator for 
    all insurance heretofore and hereafter granted under this section 
    and section 6, as amended, shall not exceed in the aggregate 
    $100,000,000.''
The following amendment was offered to the bill: (14)
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14. Id. at p. 3351.
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        Amendment offered by Mr. [Byron N.] Scott [of California]: Page 
    2, line 24, strike out all of lines 24 and 25 and insert:

            Sec. 2. Section 2(a) of the National Housing Act, as 
        amended, is amended by striking out ``April 1, 1936, and prior 
        to April 1, 1937'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``April 1, 
        1937, and prior to April 1, 1938'', by striking out ``April 1, 
        1936, exceed 10 percent'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``April 
        1, 1937, exceed 5 percent'', and by amending the third sentence 
        thereof to.

    Mr. Henry B. Steagall, of Alabama, made the point of order that the 
amendment was not germane to the section or to the bill, and The 
Chairman,(15) without elaboration, sustained the point of 
order.
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15. Paul R. Greever (Wyo.).
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