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House Rule XXIX
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§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. In these rules words importing one gender include the other as well.
HOUSE RULES AND MANUAL NOTES
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 §§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 when gender-based references throughout the rules were eliminated (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2009, p. 7). The importance of Jefferson’s Manual as an authority in congressional procedure has been discussed (VII, 1029, 1049; VIII, 2501, 2517, 2518, 3330).
§1105b. 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.
HOUSE RULES AND MANUAL NOTES
This clause was added in the 112th Congress (sec. 2(c)(2), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80). The 112th and 114th Congresses provided a transition rule pending the designation by the committee under this clause (sec. 3(n), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80; sec. 3(o), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 2015, p. __).
This clause was amended in the 115th Congress ((sec. 2(r), H. Res. 5,, Jan. 3, 2017, p. 15) by changing the method by which a document may be considered as being publicly available. Previously it could be fulfilled by placing it in electronic form at a location designated by the Committee on House Administration. In its amended form, it may be fulfilled by doing so at a document repository operated by the Clerk of the House.
Text from H.Res. 5 (115th Congress) is as follows:
(r) ELECTRONIC AVAILABILITY.—In clause 3 of rule XXIX, strike ‘‘in electronic form at a location designated by the Committee on House Administration’’ and insert ‘‘at an electronic document repository operated by the Clerk’’.
§1105d. 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.
HOUSE RULES AND MANUAL NOTES
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 §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).
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