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RULE XIII: CALENDARS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS
Calendars
1. (a) All business reported by committees
shall be referred to one of the
following three calendars:
(1) A Calendar of the Committee of
the Whole House on the state of the
Union, to which shall be referred public
bills and public resolutions raising
revenue, involving a tax or
charge on the people, directly or indirectly
making appropriations of
money or property or requiring such
appropriations to be made, authorizing
payments out of appropriations
already made, releasing any liability
to the United States for money or
property, or referring a claim to the
Court of Claims.
(2) A House Calendar, to which
shall be referred all public bills and
public resolutions not requiring referral
to the Calendar of the Committee
of the Whole House on the
state of the Union.
(3) A Private Calendar as provided
in clause 5 of rule XV, to which shall
be referred all private bills and private
resolutions.
(b) There is established a Calendar of
Motions to Discharge Committees as
provided in clause 2 of rule XV.
Filing and printing of reports
2. (a)(1) Except as provided in subparagraph
(2), all reports of committees
(other than those filed from the
floor as privileged) shall be delivered to
the Clerk for printing and reference to
the proper calendar under the direction
of the Speaker in accordance with
clause 1. The title or subject of each report
shall be entered on the Journal
and printed in the Congressional
Record.
(2) A bill or resolution reported adversely
shall be laid on the table unless
a committee to which the bill or resolution
was referred requests at the
time of the report its referral to an appropriate
calendar under clause 1 or
unless, within three days thereafter, a
Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner
makes such a request.
(b)(1) It shall be the duty of the
chairman of each committee to report
or cause to be reported promptly to the
House a measure or matter approved
by the committee and to take or cause
to be taken steps necessary to bring
the measure or matter to a vote.
(2) In any event, the report of a committee
on a measure that has been approved
by the committee shall be filed
within seven calendar days (exclusive
of days on which the House is not in
session) after the day on which a written
request for the filing of the report,
signed by a majority of the members of
the committee, has been filed with the
clerk of the committee. The clerk of
the committee shall immediately notify
the chairman of the filing of such
a request. This subparagraph does not
apply to a report of the Committee on
Rules with respect to a rule, joint rule,
or order of business of the House, or to
the reporting of a resolution of inquiry
addressed to the head of an executive
department.
(c) All supplemental, minority, or additional
views filed under clause 2(l) of
rule XI by one or more members of a
committee shall be included in, and
shall be a part of, the report filed by
the committee with respect to a measure
or matter. When time guaranteed
by clause 2(l) of rule XI has expired (or,
if sooner, when all separate views have
been received), the committee may arrange
to file its report with the Clerk
not later than one hour after the expiration
of such time. This clause and
provisions of clause 2(l) of rule XI do
not preclude the immediate filing or
printing of a committee report in the
absence of a timely request for the opportunity
to file supplemental, minority,
or additional views as provided in
clause 2(l) of rule XI.
Content of reports
3. (a)(1) Except as provided in subparagraph
(2), the report of a committee
on a measure or matter shall be
printed in a single volume that—
(A) shall include all supplemental,
minority, or additional views that
have been submitted by the time of
the filing of the report; and
(B) shall bear on its cover a recital
that any such supplemental, minority,
or additional views (and any material
submitted under paragraph
(c)(3)) are included as part of the report.
(2) A committee may file a supplemental
report for the correction of a
technical error in its previous report
on a measure or matter. A supplemental
report only correcting errors in
the depiction of record votes under
paragraph (b) may be filed under this
subparagraph and shall not be subject
to the requirement in clause 4 or clause
6 concerning the availability of reports.
(b) With respect to each record vote
on a motion to report a measure or
matter of a public nature, and on any
amendment offered to the measure or
matter, the total number of votes cast
for and against, and the names of members
voting for and against, shall be included
in the committee report. The
preceding sentence does not apply to
votes taken in executive session by the
Committee on Standards of Official
Conduct.
(c) The report of a committee on a
measure that has been approved by the
committee shall include, separately set
out and clearly identified, the following:
(1) Oversight findings and recommendations
under clause 2(b)(1) of
rule X.
(2) The statement required by section
308(a) of the Congressional Bud
get Act of 1974, except that an estimate
of new budget authority shall
include, when practicable, a comparison
of the total estimated funding
level for the relevant programs to the
appropriate levels under current law.
(3) An estimate and comparison
prepared by the Director of the Congressional
Budget Office under section
402 of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 if timely submitted to the
committee before the filing of the report.
(4) A statement of general performance
goals and objectives, including
outcome-related goals and objectives,
for which the measure authorizes
funding.
(d) Each report of a committee on a
public bill or public joint resolution
shall contain the following:
(1) A statement citing the specific
powers granted to Congress in the
Constitution to enact the law proposed
by the bill or joint resolution.
(2)(A) An estimate by the committee
of the costs that would be incurred
in carrying out the bill or
joint resolution in the fiscal year in
which it is reported and in each of
the five fiscal years following that
fiscal year (or for the authorized duration
of any program authorized by
the bill or joint resolution if less
than five years);
(B) a comparison of the estimate of
costs described in subdivision (A)
made by the committee with any estimate
of such costs made by a Government
agency and submitted to
such committee; and
(C) when practicable, a comparison
of the total estimated funding level
for the relevant programs with the
appropriate levels under current law.
(3)(A) In subparagraph (2) the term ‘‘Government agency’’ includes any
department, agency, establishment,
wholly owned Government corporation,
or instrumentality of the Federal
Government or the government
of the District of Columbia.
(B) Subparagraph (2) does not apply
to the Committee on Appropriations,
the Committee on House Administration,
the Committee on Rules, or the
Committee on Standards of Official
Conduct, and does not apply when a
cost estimate and comparison prepared
by the Director of the Congressional
Budget Office under section 402
of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974 has been included in the report
under paragraph (c)(3).
(e)(1) Whenever a committee reports
a bill or joint resolution proposing to
repeal or amend a statute or part
thereof, it shall include in its report or
in an accompanying document—
(A) the text of a statute or part
thereof that is proposed to be repealed;
and
(B) a comparative print of any part
of the bill or joint resolution proposing
to amend the statute and of
the statute or part thereof proposed
to be amended, showing by appropriate
typographical devices the
omissions and insertions proposed.
(2) If a committee reports a bill or
joint resolution proposing to repeal or
amend a statute or part thereof with a
recommendation that the bill or joint
resolution be amended, the comparative
print required by subparagraph (1)
shall reflect the changes in existing
law proposed to be made by the bill or
joint resolution as proposed to be
amended.
(f)(1) A report of the Committee on
Appropriations on a general appropriation
bill shall include—
(A) a concise statement describing
the effect of any provision of the accompanying
bill that directly or indirectly
changes the application of existing
law; and
(B) a list of all appropriations contained
in the bill for expenditures not
currently authorized by law for the
period concerned (excepting classified
intelligence or national security
programs, projects, or activities),
along with a statement of the last
year for which such expenditures
were authorized, the level of expenditures
authorized for that year, the
actual level of expenditures for that
year, and the level of appropriations
in the bill for such expenditures.
(2) Whenever the Committee on Appropriations
reports a bill or joint resolution
including matter specified in
clause 1(b)(2) or (3) of rule X, it shall
include—
(A) in the bill or joint resolution,
separate headings for ‘‘Rescissions’’
and ‘‘Transfers of Unexpended Balances’’;
and
(B) in the report of the committee,
a separate section listing such rescissions
and transfers.
(g) Whenever the Committee on
Rules reports a resolution proposing to
repeal or amend a standing rule of the
House, it shall include in its report or
in an accompanying document—
(1) the text of any rule or part
thereof that is proposed to be repealed;
and
(2) a comparative print of any part
of the resolution proposing to amend
the rule and of the rule or part thereof
proposed to be amended, showing
by appropriate typographical devices
the omissions and insertions proposed.
(h)(1) It shall not be in order to consider
a bill or joint resolution reported
by the Committee on Ways and Means
that proposes to amend the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 unless—
(A) the report includes a tax complexity
analysis prepared by the
Joint Committee on Internal Revenue
Taxation in accordance with
section 4022(b) of the Internal Revenue
Service Restructuring and Reform
Act of 1998; or
(B) the chairman of the Committee
on Ways and Means causes such a tax
complexity analysis to be printed in
the Congressional Record before consideration
of the bill or joint resolution.
(2)(A) It shall not be in order to consider
a bill or joint resolution reported
by the Committee on Ways and Means
that proposes to amend the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 unless—
(i) the report includes a macroeconomic
impact analysis;
(ii) the report includes a statement
from the Joint Committee on Internal
Revenue Taxation explaining why
a macroeconomic impact analysis is
not calculable; or
(iii) the chairman of the Committee
on Ways and Means causes a
macroeconomic impact analysis to be
printed in the Congressional Record
before consideration of the bill or
joint resolution.
(B) In subdivision (A), the term ‘‘macroeconomic impact analysis’’
means—
(i) an estimate prepared by the
Joint Committee on Internal Revenue
Taxation of the changes in economic
output, employment, capital
stock, and tax revenues expected to
result from enactment of the proposal;
and
(ii) a statement from the Joint
Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation
identifying the critical assumptions and the source of data underlying
that estimate.
Availability of reports
4. (a)(1) Except as specified in subparagraph
(2), it shall not be in order
to consider in the House a measure or
matter reported by a committee until
the third calendar day (excluding Saturdays,
Sundays, or legal holidays except
when the House is in session on
such a day) on which each report of a
committee on that measure or matter
has been available to Members, Delegates,
and the Resident Commissioner.
(2) Subparagraph (1) does not apply
to—
(A) a resolution providing a rule,
joint rule, or order of business reported
by the Committee on Rules
considered under clause 6;
(B) a resolution providing amounts
from the applicable accounts described
in clause 1(j)(1) of rule X reported
by the Committee on House
Administration considered under
clause 6 of rule X;
(C) a resolution presenting a question
of the privileges of the House reported
by any committee;
(D) a measure for the declaration of
war, or the declaration of a national
emergency, by Congress; and
(E) a measure providing for the disapproval
of a decision, determination,
or action by a Government
agency that would become, or continue
to be, effective unless disapproved
or otherwise invalidated by
one or both Houses of Congress. In
this subdivision the term ‘‘Government
agency’’ includes any department,
agency, establishment, wholly
owned Government corporation, or
instrumentality of the Federal Government
or of the government of the
District of Columbia.
(b) A committee that reports a measure
or matter shall make every reasonable
effort to have its hearings thereon
(if any) printed and available for distribution
to Members, Delegates, and
the Resident Commissioner before the
consideration of the measure or matter
in the House.
(c) A general appropriation bill reported
by the Committee on Appropriations
may not be considered in the
House until the third calendar day (excluding
Saturdays, Sundays, and legal
holidays except when the House is in
session on such a day) on which printed
hearings of the Committee on Appropriations
thereon have been available
to Members, Delegates, and the Resident
Commissioner.
Privileged reports, generally
5. (a)The following committees shall have leave to report at any time on the
following matters, respectively:
(1) The Committee on Appropriations,
on general appropriation bills
and on joint resolutions continuing
appropriations for a fiscal year after
September 15 in the preceding fiscal
year.
(2) The Committee on the Budget,
on the matters required to be reported
by such committee under titles
III and IV of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974.
(3) The Committee on House Administration,
on enrolled bills, on
contested elections, on matters referred
to it concerning printing for
the use of the House or the two
Houses, on expenditure of the applicable
accounts of the House described
in clause 1(j)(1) of rule X, and on matters
relating to preservation and
availability of noncurrent records of
the House under rule VII.
(4) The Committee on Rules, on
rules, joint rules, and the order of
business.
(5) The Committee on Standards of
Official Conduct, on resolutions recommending
action by the House with
respect to a Member, Delegate, Resident
Commissioner, officer, or employee
of the House as a result of an
investigation by the committee relating
to the official conduct of such
Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner,
officer, or employee.
(b) A report filed from the floor as
privileged under paragraph (a) may be
called up as a privileged question by direction
of the reporting committee,
subject to any requirement concerning
its availability to Members, Delegates,
and the Resident Commissioner under
clause 4 or concerning the timing of its
consideration under clause 6.
Privileged reports by the Committee on
Rules
6. (a) A report by the Committee on
Rules on a rule, joint rule, or the order
of business may not be called up for
consideration on the same day it is presented
to the House except—
(1) when so determined by a vote of
two-thirds of the Members voting, a
quorum being present;
(2) in the case of a resolution proposing
only to waive a requirement
of clause 4 or of clause 8 of rule XXII
concerning the availability of reports;
or
(3) during the last three days of a
session of Congress.
(b) Pending the consideration of a report
by the Committee on Rules on a
rule, joint rule, or the order of business,
the Speaker may entertain one
motion that the House adjourn. After
the result of such a motion is announced,
the Speaker may not entertain
any other dilatory motion until
the report shall have been disposed of.
(c) The Committee on Rules may not
report—
(1) a rule or order proposing that
business under clause 6 of rule XV be
set aside by a vote of less than twothirds
of the Members voting, a
quorum being present; or
(2) a rule or order that would prevent
the motion to recommit a bill or
joint resolution from being made as
provided in clause 2(b) of rule XIX,
including a motion to recommit with
instructions to report back an
amendment otherwise in order, if offered
by the Minority Leader or a
designee, except with respect to a
Senate bill or resolution for which
the text of a House-passed measure
has been substituted.
(d) The Committee on Rules shall
present to the House reports concerning
rules, joint rules, and the order
of business, within three legislative days of the time when they are ordered.
If such a report is not considered
immediately, it shall be referred to the
calendar. If such a report on the calendar
is not called up by the member of
the committee who filed the report
within seven legislative days, any
member of the committee may call it
up as a privileged question on the day
after the calendar day on which the
member announces to the House his intention
to do so. The Speaker shall recognize
a member of the committee who
rises for that purpose.
(e) An adverse report by the Committee
on Rules on a resolution proposing
a special order of business for
the consideration of a public bill or
public joint resolution may be called
up as a privileged question by a Member,
Delegate, or Resident Commissioner
on a day when it is in order to
consider a motion to discharge committees
under clause 2 of rule XV.
(f) If the House has adopted a resolution
making in order a motion to consider
a bill or resolution, and such a
motion has not been offered within
seven calendar days thereafter, such a
motion shall be privileged if offered by
direction of all reporting committees
having initial jurisdiction of the bill or
resolution.
(g) Whenever the Committee on
Rules reports a resolution providing for
the consideration of a measure, it shall
(to the maximum extent possible)
specify in the resolution the object of
any waiver of a point of order against
the measure or against its consideration.
Resolutions of inquiry
7. A report on a resolution of inquiry addressed to the head of an executive department may be filed from the floor as privileged. If such a resolution is not reported to the House within 14 legislative days after its introduction, a motion to discharge a committee from its consideration shall be privileged.
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