PUBLIC LAW 99-177—DEC. 12, 1985
99 STAT. 1079
1974, sections 302(f) and 311(a) (except insofar as it relates to section 3(7)) of that Act (but only if a concurrent resolution on the budget under section 301 of that Act, for the fiscal year following the current fiscal year, has been agreed to prior to the introduction of this joint resolution), sections 1105(f) and 1106(c) of title 31, United States Code, and part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are suspended for the fiscal year following the current fiscal year. This joint resolution shall not have the effect of suspending any final order which was issued for the current fiscal year under section 2520)) of the Balsuiced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 if such order was issued before the date of the enactment of this joint resolution.". (B) The title of the joint resolution shall be "Joint resolution suspending certain provisions of law pursuant to section 254(a)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985."; and the joint resolution shall not contain any preamble. (3) COMMITTEE ACTION.—Each joint resolution introduced pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be referred to the Committee on the Budget of the House involved; and such Committee shall report the joint resolution to its House without amendment on or before the fifth day on which such House is in session after the date on which the joint resolution is introduced. If the Committee fails to report the joint resolution within the fiveday period referred to in the preceding sentence, it shall be automatically discharged from further consideration of the joint resolution, and the joint resolution shall be placed on the appropriate calendar. (4) CONSIDERATION OF JOINT RESOLUTION.—
(A) A vote on final passage of a joint resolution reported to a House of the Congress or discharged pursuant to paragraph (3) shall be taken on or before the close of the fifth calendar day of session of such House after the date on which the joint resolution is reported to such House or after the Committee has been discharged from further consideration of the joint resolution. If prior to the passage by one House of a joint resolution of that House, that House receives the same joint resolution from the other House, then— (i) the procedure in that House shall be the same as if no such joint resolution had been received from the other House, but (ii) the vote on final passage shall be on the joint resolution of the other House. When the joint resolution is agreed to, the Clerk of the House of Representatives (in the case of a House joint resolution agreed to in the House of Representatives) or the Secretary of the Senate (in the case of a Senate joint resolution agreed to in the Senate) shall cause the joint resolution to be engrossed, certified, and transmitted to the other House of the Congress as soon as practicable. (B)(i) A motion in the House of Representatives to proceed to the consideration of a joint resolution under this paragraph shall be highly privileged and not debatable. An
Ante, pp. 1044, 1055. ^"J^' P- f r^^" ^' PAnte, p. 1063. Ante, p. 1063.
Ante, p. 1072.
Ante, p. 1078.
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