H.R. 3843 - Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022

Bill Text

    Rules Committee Print 117-66 PDF XML

    Showing the text of H.R. 3843, as ordered reported by the Committee on the Judiciary, with modifications.

    Text of H.R. 3843 PDF XML

    (as reported)

    H. Rept. 117-493, Part I PDF

    Report from the Committee on the Judiciary to accompany H.R. 3843.

    Comparative Print PDF

    Showing the differences between H.R. 3843, as reported, and Rules Committee Print 117-66.

Rule Information

COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY A RECORD VOTE of 8-4 on September 27, 2022.

FLOOR ACTION ON H. RES. 1396: 
Agreed to by record vote of 217-212, after agreeing to the previous question by record vote of 220-208, on September 28, 2022.

MANAGERS: DeSaulnier/Fischbach

1. Closed rule for H.R. 3843.
2. Provides one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary or their designees.
3. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
4. Provides that an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 117-66 shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
5. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
6. Provides one motion to recommit.

7. Structured rule for H.R. 7780.
8. Provides one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Education and Labor or their designees.
9. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
10. Provides that an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 117-67 shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
11. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
12. Makes in order only those amendments printed in the Rules Committee report accompanying the resolution. Each amendment made in order may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole.
13. Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in the report.
14. Provides that at the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment the Committee shall rise and report the bill, as amended, to the House with such further amendments as may have been adopted. The question of such further amendments' adoption shall be put to the House en gros and without division of the question.
15. Provides one motion to recommit.
16. Provides that during consideration of H.R. 7780, the Chair may entertain a motion that the Committee rise only if offered by the chair of the Committee on Education or Labor or his designee. The Chair may not entertain a motion to strike out the enacting words of the bill.
17. Closed rule for S. 3969.
18. Provides one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on House Administration or their designees.
19. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
20. Provides that the bill shall be considered as read.
21. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill.
22. Provides one motion to commit.
23. Section 5 of the rule provides that on any legislative day during the period from October 3, 2022, through November 11, 2022, the Journal of the proceedings of the previous day shall be considered as approved.
24. Provides that the Speaker may appoint Members to perform the duties of the Chair for the duration of the period addressed by section 5 of the resolution.
25. Provides that each day during the period addressed by section 5 of the resolution shall not constitute a calendar day for the purposes of section 7 of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1546).
26. Provides that each day during the period addressed by section 5 of the resolution shall not constitute a legislative day for purposes of clause 7 of rule XIII (resolutions of inquiry).
27. Provides that each day during the period addressed by section 5 shall not constitute a calendar or legislative day for purposes of clause 7(c)(1) of rule XXII (motions to instruct conferees).
28. Provides that at any time through the legislative day of September 30, 2022, the Speaker may entertain motions offered by the Majority Leader or a designee that the House suspend the rules with respect to multiple measures that were the object of motions to suspend the rules on the legislative day of September 28, 2022, September 29, 2022, or September 30, 2022, on which the yeas and nays were ordered and further proceedings postponed. The Chair shall put the question on any such motion without debate or intervening motion, and the ordering of the yeas and nays on postponed motions to suspend the rules with respect to such measures is vacated.

Amendments (click headers to sort)

#Version #Sponsor(s)PartySummaryStatus
1Version 1Fitzgerald (WI)RepublicanProhibits funds made available under the bill from being used for non-enforcement activities.Submitted