[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 117th Congress]
[117th Congress]
[House Document 116-177]
[Legislate Procedures Enacted in Law]
[Pages 1337-1341]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
32. Minimum Standards for Identification of Documents; Intelligence
Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Sec. 7220 [49 U.S.C. 44901
note]
Sec. 7220. identification standards.
(a) Proposed Standards.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Homeland Security--
(A) shall propose minimum standards for
identification documents required of domestic
commercial airline passengers for boarding an
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aircraft; and
(B) may, from time to time, propose minimum
standards amending or replacing standards previously
proposed and transmitted to Congress and approved
under this section.
(2) Submission to congress.--Not later than 6 months
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary
shall submit the standards under paragraph (1)(A) to the
Senate and the House of Representatives on the same day
while each House is in session.
(3) Effective date.--Any proposed standards submitted
to Congress under this subsection shall take effect when
an approval resolution is passed by the House and the
Senate under the procedures described in subsection (b)
and becomes law.
(b) Congressional Approval Procedures.--
(1) Rulemaking power.--This subsection is enacted by
Congress--
(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of
the Senate and the House of Representatives,
respectively, and as such they are deemed a part of
the rules of each House, respectively, but
applicable only with respect to the procedure to be
followed in that House in the case of such approval
resolutions; and it supersedes other rules only to
the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and
(B) with full recognition of the constitutional
right of either House to change the rules (so far as
relating to the procedure of that House) at any
time, in the same manner and to the same extent as
in the case of any other rule of that House.
(2) Approval resolution.--For the purpose of this
subsection, the term ``approval resolution'' means a
joint resolution of Congress, the matter after the
resolving clause of which is as follows: ``That the
Congress approves the proposed standards issued under
section 7220 of the 9/11 Commission Implementation Act
of 2004, transmitted by the President to the Congress on
___'', the blank space being filled in with the
appropriate date.
(3) Introduction.--Not later than the first day of
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session following the day on which proposed
standards are transmitted to the House of
Representatives and the Senate under subsection (a), an
approval resolution--
(A) shall be introduced (by request) in the
House by the Majority Leader of the House of
Representatives, for himself or herself and the
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, or
by Members of the House of Representatives
designated by the Majority Leader and Minority
Leader of the House; and
(B) shall be introduced (by request) in the
Senate by the Majority Leader of the Senate, for
himself or herself and the Minority Leader of the
Senate, or by Members of the Senate designated by
the Majority Leader and Minority Leader of the
Senate.
(4) Prohibitions.--
(A) Amendments.--No amendment to an approval
resolution shall be in order in either the House of
Representatives or the Senate.
(B) Motions to suspend.--No motion to suspend
the application of this paragraph shall be in order
in either House, nor shall it be in order in either
House for the Presiding Officer to entertain a
request to suspend the application of this paragraph
by unanimous consent.
(5) Referral.--
(A) In general.--An approval resolution shall be
referred to the committees of the House of
Representatives and of the Senate with jurisdiction.
Each committee shall make its recommendations to the
House of Representatives or the Senate, as the case
may be, within 45 days after its introduction.
Except as provided in subparagraph (B), if a
committee to which an approval resolution has been
referred has not reported it at the close of the
45th day after its introduction, such committee
shall be automatically discharged from further
consideration of the resolution and it shall be
placed on the appropriate calendar.
(B) Final passage.--A vote on final passage of
the resolution shall be taken in each House on or
before the close of the 15th day after the
resolution is reported by the committee or
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committees of that House to which it
was referred, or after such committee or committees
have been discharged from further consideration of
the resolution.
(C) Computation of days.--For purposes of this
paragraph, in computing a number of days in either
House, there shall be excluded any day on which that
House is not in session.
(6) Coordination with action of other house.--If prior
to the passage by one House of an approval resolution of
that House, that House receives the same approval
resolution from the other House, then the procedure in
that House shall be the same as if no approval
resolution has been received from the other House, but
the vote on final passage shall be on the approval
resolution of the other House.
(7) Floor consideration in the house of
representatives.--
(A) Motion to proceed.--A motion in the House of
Representatives to proceed to the consideration of
an approval resolution shall be highly privileged
and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall
not be in order, not shall it be in order to move to
reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to
or disagreed to.
(B) Debate.--Debate in the House of
Representatives on an implementing bill or approval
resolution shall be limited to not more than 4
hours, which shall be divided equally between those
favoring and those opposing the resolution. A motion
to further limit debate shall not be debatable. It
shall not be in order to move to recommit an
approval resolution or to move to reconsider the
vote by which an approval resolution is agreed to or
disagreed to.
(C) Motion to postpone.--Motions to postpone
made in the House of Representatives with respect to
the consideration of an approval resolution and
motions to proceed to the consideration of other
business shall be decided without debate.
(D) Appeals.--All appeals from the decisions of
the Chair relating to the application of the Rules
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of the House of Representatives to
the procedure relating to an approval resolution
shall be decided without debate.
(E) Rules of the house of representatives.--
Except to the extent specifically provided in
subparagraphs (A) through (D), consideration of an
approval resolution shall be governed by the Rules
of the House of Representatives applicable to other
resolutions in similar circumstances.
(8) Floor consideration in the Senate.--
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(c) Default Standards.--
(1) In general.--If the standards proposed under
subsection (a)(1)(A) are not approved pursuant to the
procedures described in subsection (b), then not later
than 1 year after rejection by a vote of either House of
Congress, domestic commercial airline passengers seeking
to board an aircraft shall present, for identification
purposes--
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Sec. 1130(33)