S.Amdt. 367
What it does: Adds SEC. 4__. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST FUNDS FOR REGULATIONS THAT ARE NOT CONGRESSIONALLY AUTHORIZED at the end of subtitle A of title IV
Sen. James E. Risch (R-ID)What it changes
1 change to S.Con.Res. 8 · shown in the resolution's text
Adds SEC. 4__. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST FUNDS FOR REGULATIONS THAT ARE NOT CONGRESSIONALLY AUTHORIZED at the end of subtitle A of title IV
Adds a sectionIn S.Con.Res. 8 · Placed on Calendar Senate
(e) Form of the Point of Order.--When the Senate is considering a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation to, a bill, upon a point of order being made by any Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order being sustained, such material contained in such conference report or amendment shall be deemed stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to consider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only that portion of the conference report or House amendment, as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion shall be debatable. In any case in which such point of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate amendment derived from such conference report by operation of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order.
Inserted: SEC. 4__. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST FUNDS FOR REGULATIONS THAT ARE NOT CONGRESSIONALLY AUTHORIZED.
Inserted: (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, or conference report that would provides funds for new Federal regulations and that does not prohibit such funds from being used to create any new regulation that has not been reviewed, modified, or specifically authorized by Congress in statute.
Inserted: (b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (a).
Original wording
At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following:
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As printed
SA 367. Mr. RISCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 8, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following:
SEC. 4__. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST FUNDS FOR REGULATIONS THAT ARE NOT CONGRESSIONALLY AUTHORIZED.
(a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, or conference report that would provides funds for new Federal regulations and that does not prohibit such funds from being used to create any new regulation that has not been reviewed, modified, or specifically authorized by Congress in statute.
(b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under subsection (a).
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Senate amendment submitted
March 21, 2013