    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 115th Congress]
    [115th Congress]
    [House Document 114-192]
    [Rules of the House of Representatives]
    [Pages 1030-1031]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                    Rule XXIX

                               general provisions

    Sec. 1105. Relations of Jefferson's Manual and provisions
    of law to the Rules of the House.

      1.  The provisions of law that
    constituted the Rules of the House at the end of the previous Congress
    shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and
    the rules of parliamentary practice comprised by Jefferson's Manual
    shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable and in
    which they are not inconsistent with the Rules and orders of the House.

      2. In these rules words importing one gender include the other as
    well.

      Clause 1 was adopted in 1837 (V, 6757), and amended January 3, 1953,
    p. 24, when it was also renumbered. When the House recodified its rules
    in the 106th Congress, clause 1 was transferred from former rule XLII
    and was modified to reference all provisions of law comprising House
    rules at the end of the previous Congress (a compilation of which is
    included in Sec. Sec. 1127-1130, infra); and clause 2 was added (H. Res.
    5, Jan. 6, 1999, p. 47). This rule was redesignated as rule XXVII in the
    107th Congress (sec. 2(s), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24), redesignated
    as rule XXVIII in the 108th Congress (sec. 2(t), H. Res. 5, Jan. 7,
    2003, p. 7), and redesignated as rule XXIX in the 110th Congress (sec.
    301, P.L. 110-81). Clause 2 was amended in the 111th Congress when
    gender-based references throughout the rules were eliminated (sec. 2(l),
    H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). The importance of Jefferson's Manual as
    an authority in congressional procedure has been discussed (VII, 1029,
    1049; VIII, 2501, 2517, 2518, 3330).

    Sec. 1105a. Layover satisfied by electronic
    availability.

      3.  If a measure or matter is publicly available at an
    electronic document repository operated by the Clerk, it shall be
    considered as having been available to Members, Delegates, and the
    Resident Commissioner for purposes of these rules.

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    electronic document repository maintained by the Clerk instead of a
    location to be designated by the Committee on House Administration (sec.
    2(r), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2017, p. _). Before that amendment, the House
    had provided a transition rule pending the designation by the committee
    under the prior form of this clause (sec. 3(n), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011,
    p. 80; sec. 3(o), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. _).

      This clause was added in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(c)(2), H. Res. 5,
    Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80), and amended in the 115th Congress to specify the

    Sec. 1105b. Authoritative guidance of budgetary
    levels.

      4.  Authoritative guidance from the Committee on the Budget
    concerning the impact of a legislative proposition on the levels of new
    budget authority, outlays, direct spending, new entitlement authority
    and revenues may be provided by the chair of the committee.

      This clause was added in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(d)(3), H. Res. 5,
    Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). This authority elucidates the responsibilities of
    the Committee on the Budget under section 312 of the Congressional
    Budget Act (see Sec. 1127, infra). The 112th Congress authorized the
    chair of the committee to make specified adjustments under this clause
    pending the adoption of a certain budget resolution (sec. 3(h), H. Res.
    5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). The House in the 115th Congress provided that
    certain conveyances of Federal land not be considered as providing new
    budget authority, decreasing revenues, increasing mandatory spending, or
    increasing outlays (sec. 3(q), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2017, p. _).