[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7345 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7345

To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to modify the rules with 
  respect to the consideration in the House of Representatives of any 
   resolution providing for an adjournment period of more than three 
  calendar days during the month of July or August until the House of 
Representatives has approved annual appropriation bills, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 14, 2024

  Mr. Brecheen (for himself and Mr. Kilmer) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to 
the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to modify the rules with 
  respect to the consideration in the House of Representatives of any 
   resolution providing for an adjournment period of more than three 
  calendar days during the month of July or August until the House of 
Representatives has approved annual appropriation bills, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Waiving the Rules Disclosure, 
Transparency, and Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. COMPLETION OF HOUSE ACTION ON REGULAR APPROPRIATION BILLS.

    Section 309 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 640) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``It shall not be in order'' and inserting 
        ``(a) In General--It shall not be in order'';
            (2) by inserting ``or August'' after ``July''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Enforcement in the House of Representatives.--It shall not be 
in order in the House of Representatives to consider a rule or order 
that waives the application of subsection (a).
    ``(c) Question of Consideration.--As disposition of a point of 
order under subsection (b), the Chair shall put the question of 
consideration with respect to the rule or order, as applicable.
    ``(d) Debate and Intervening Motions.--A question of consideration 
under this section shall be debatable for 10 minutes by the Member 
initiating the point of order and for 10 minutes by an opponent, but 
shall otherwise be decided without intervening motion.''.
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