Sportfishing and Recreational Boating Safety Act of 2005

Introduced in House

Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.

Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.

Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 109-12, Part I.

Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 140 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3 with 2 hours and 20 minutes of general debate. All points of order against the consideration of the bill are waived. The amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure now printed in the bill, modified by the amendment printed in part A of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution shall be considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole. The bill, as amended, shall be considered as the original bill for the purpose of further amendment under the five-minute rule. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. After disposition of the amendments in part B, the Committee shall rise without motion. No further consideration of the bill shall be in order except pursuant to a subsequent order of the House.

Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 144 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 3. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. No further general debate (except for the final period contemplated in H. Res. 140) shall be in order. Specified amendments are in order.

The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

Senate insists on its amendment, agrees to request for a conference, appoints conferees Inhofe; Warner; Bond; Voinovich; Chafee; Murkowski; Thune; DeMint; Isakson; Vitter; Grassley; Hatch; Shelby; Allard; Stevens; Lott; Jeffords; Baucus; Lieberman; Boxer; Carper; Clinton; Lautenberg; Obama; Conrad; Inouye; Rockefeller; Sarbanes; Reed; Johnson. (consideration: CR S6060)

The Speaker appointed conferees from the Committee on Ways and Means, for consideration of Title X of the House bill, and Title V of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Thomas, McCrery, and Rangel.

Conference held.

Conference committee actions: Conference held.

Conference report H. Rept. 109-203 filed. (text of conference report: CR H7043-7550)

Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.

Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 91 - 4. Record Vote Number: 220.

Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 399 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 3. All points of order against the conference report and against its consideration are waived. The rule provides that the conference report shall be considered as read. The rule provides that the Clerk shall not transmit to the Senate a message that it has adopted the conference report to accompany H.R. 3 until the House has received a message that the Senate has agreed to House Concurrent Resolution 226 as adopted by the House.

Rule H. Res. 140 passed House.

Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 417 - 9 (Roll no. 65).

DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Oberstar motion to instruct conferees. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to insist on a level of funding for highway, transit, and highway and motor carrier safety programs equal to the level of funding provided in the House passed version of H.R. 3 ($283.9 billion); and to insist on the additional resources necessary to increase the guaranteed rate of return for States to not less than 92 percent while ensuring that each State receives no less than it is provided under H.R. 3.

Rule H. Res. 399 passed House.