conference reports

conference reports Sec. 125. (a) (1) The section caption of section 135 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 190c) is amended to read as follows: “senate conference reports”. (2) Section 135 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 (J.S.C. 190c) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: “(c) Each report made by a committee of conference to the Senate shall be printed as a report of the Senate. As so printed, such report shall be accompanied by an explanatory statement prepared jointly by the conferees on the part of the House and the conferees on the part of the Senate. Such statement shall be sufficiently detailed and explicit to inform the Senate as to the effect which the amendments or propositions contained in such report will have upon the measure to which those amendments or propositions relate. “(d) If time for debate in the consideration of any report of a committee of conference upon the floor of the Senate is limited, the time allotted for debate shall be equally divided between the majority party and the minority party.”. (3) The item relating to section 135 contained in the table of contents of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 813) is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 135. Senate Conference Reports”. (b) (1) Paragraph (c) of clause 1 of Rule XXVIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended to read as follows: “(c) Each report made by a committee of conference to the House shall be printed as a report of the House. As so printed, such report shall be accompanied by an explanatory statement prepared jointly by the conferees on the part of the House and the conferees on the part of the Senate. Such statement shall be sufficiently detailed and explicit to inform the House as to the effect which the amendments or propositions contained in such report will have upon the measure to which those amendments or propositions relate.”. (2) Clause 2 of Rule XXVIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended to read as follows: “2. It shall not be in order to consider the report of a committee of conference unless such report and the accompanying statement shall have been printed in the Record, at least three calendar days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) prior to the consideration of such report by the House.: but this provision does not apply during the last six days of the session. Nor shall it be in order to consider any conference report unless copies of the report and accompanying statement are then available on the floor. The time allotted for debate in the consideration of any such report shall be equally divided between the majority party and the minority party.”. (3) Clause 3 of Rule XXVIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended— (1) by striking out “, but their report shall not include matter not committed to the conference committee by either House.”; and (2) by inserting in lieu thereof the following: “, but the introduction of any language in that substitute presenting a specific additional topic, question, issue, or proposition not committed to the conference committee by either House shall not constitute a84 Stat. 1160 germane modification of the matter in disagreement. Moreover, their report shall not include matter not committed to the conference committee by either House., nor shall their report include a modification of any specific topic, question, issue, or proposition committed to the conference committee by either or both Houses if that modification is beyond the scope of that specific topic, question, issue, or proposition as so committed to the conference committee.”.