21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act

Introduced in House

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 31 - 14.

Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Labor. H. Rept. 111-100.

Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 427 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2187 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Education and Labor now printed in the bill.

Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 2187 as unfinished business.

DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Thompson(PA) motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment adding at the end of section 311, the following: (c)LIMITATION.- (1) IN GENERAL.- Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b) and any other provision of this Act, for any fiscal year for which funds are authorized to be appropriated under this Act that immediately follows a fiscal year in which the Federal Government has a deficit in excess of $500,000,000,000, the amount authorized to be appropriated under this Act shall be $0. ¢ (2) DEFINITION.- For the purpose of this subsection, the term "deficit" means a fiscal year during which outlays of the Federal Government exceed receipts of the Federal Government.

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Rule H. Res. 427 passed House.

Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 275 - 155 (Roll no. 259).