    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 119th Congress]
    [119th Congress]
    [House Document 118-187]
    [Legislate Procedures Enacted in Law]
    [Pages 1330-1334]
    [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

                        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

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                        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

                    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.

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                        Each committee shall make its rec

                        ommendations 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

                        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

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                        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

                        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)