    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 119th Congress]
    [119th Congress]
    [House Document 118-187]
    [Rules of the House of Representatives]
    [Pages 1044-1047]
    [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. (Reserved.)

      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 to act as
    a catch-all when gender-based references throughout the rules were
    eliminated (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7), and such clause
    was deleted in the 117th Congress when remaining gender-based references
    in the rules were eliminated (sec. 2(d)(7), H. Res. 8, Jan. 4, 2021, p.
    _). The importance of Jefferson's Manual as an authority in
    congressional procedure has been discussed (VII, 1029, 1049; VIII, 2501,
    2517, 2518, 3330). end segment .013  deg.

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    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.

      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
    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. 37). 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. 37).

      In the 117th through 119th Congresses the House directed the Clerk and
    other officers and officials of the House to improve upon the electronic
    document repository operated by the Clerk for use by committees (sec.
    3(k), H. Res. 8, Jan. 4, 2021, p. _; sec. 3(m), H. Res. 5, Jan. 9, 2023,
    p. _; sec. 3(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2025, p. _).

    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.

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      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, 118th, ad 119th
    Congresses 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. 39; sec. 3(g), H. Res. 5, Jan. 9, 2023, p. _; sec.
    3(c)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2025, p. _). The House in the 117th and
    118th Congresses authorized the chair of the committee to make specified
    adjustments notwithstanding any subsequent adoption of a concurrent
    resolution on the budget (sec. 3(v), H. Res. 8, Jan. 4, 2021, p. _; sec.
    3(e), H. Res. 5, Jan. 9, 2023, p. _), and in the 118th Congress, the
    House permitted such adjustments to be made by the Majority Leader prior
    to the election of the chair. segment .014 -- re-org, jt &
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