Hearing Information
Meeting Time
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 3:00pm in H-313 The Capitol View Announcement »
Amendment Deadline
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 10:00am View Announcement »
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 3:00pm in H-313 The Capitol View Announcement »
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 10:00am View Announcement »
COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY VOICE VOTE on Thursday, November 17, 2011.
FLOOR ACTION ON H.RES. 470:
Adopted by record vote of 239-167 on Friday, November 18, 2011.
MANAGERS: Foxx/Polis
1. Structured rule.
2. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
3. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
4. Provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Education and the Workforce now printed in the bill shall be considered as original text for the purpose of amendment and shall be considered as read.
5. Waives all points of order against the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.
6. Makes in order only those amendments printed in the Rules Committee report. Each such amendment 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.
7. Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in the report.
8. Provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
# | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
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1 | Version 3 | Bishop, Tim (NY) | Democrat | Revised Would give the Board authority to impose sanctions on a party for presenting a frivolous or vexatious filing during pre-election proceedings. | Made In Order |
3 | Version 2 | Boswell (IA) | Democrat | Revised Would prevent employers that have paid any executive compensation bonuses in excess of 10,000 percent of the annual compensation of the average employee from engaging in open-ended litigation. Such parties are required to state their issues or positions at the outset of pre-election hearings, and prohibited from raising new, frivolous issues as a dilatory tactic. | Made In Order |
2 | Version 1 | Holt (NJ) | Democrat | Amendment in the nature of a substitute. Would authorize $30,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2012 for educational grants to States to prevent teacher layoffs. | Submitted |
5 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Late Would strike a section of the bill to ensure that employers would not be able to unnecessarily delay an election. | Made In Order |
6 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Withdrawn Late Would require the National Labor Review Board to conduct a study to assess the impact of this measure on employees who are seeking to be represented by a labor organization for the purpose of collective bargaining and shall report the findings to Congress. | Withdrawn |
7 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Withdrawn Late Would require that the provisions in this bill would not take effect until January 1, 2014 | Withdrawn |
4 | Version 2 | Walz (MN) | Democrat | Revised Would prevent this Act from applying to businesses that have been cited for violating labor laws in the past year against employees who are veterans of the Armed Forces. | Made In Order |
Motion by Ms. Slaughter to amend the rule to H.R. 3094 to report an open rule. Defeated: 4–7.