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[CITE: 42USC6249c]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                     CHAPTER 77--ENERGY CONSERVATION
 
               SUBCHAPTER I--DOMESTIC SUPPLY AVAILABILITY
 
Part C--Authority To Contract for Petroleum Product Not Owned by United 
                                 States
 
Sec. 6249c. Contracts for which implementing legislation is 
        needed
        

(a) In general

    (1) In the case of contracts entered into under this part, and 
amendments to such contracts, for which implementing legislation will be 
needed, the Secretary may transmit an implementing bill to both Houses 
of the Congress.
    (2) In the Senate, any such bill shall be considered in accordance 
with the provisions of this section.
    (3) For purposes of this section--
        (A) the term ``implementing bill'' means a bill introduced in 
    either House of Congress with respect to one or more contracts or 
    amendments to contracts submitted to the House of Representatives 
    and the Senate under this section and which contains--
            (i) a provision approving such contracts or amendments, or 
        both; and
            (ii) legislative provisions that are necessary or 
        appropriate for the implementation of such contracts or 
        amendments, or both; and

        (B) the term ``implementing revenue bill'' means an implementing 
    bill which contains one or more revenue measures by reason of which 
    it must originate in the House of Representatives.

(b) Consultation

    The Secretary shall consult, at the earliest possible time and on a 
continuing basis, with each committee of the House and the Senate that 
has jurisdiction over all matters expected to be affected by legislation 
needed to implement any such contract.

(c) Effective date

    Each contract and each amendment to a contract for which an 
implementing bill is necessary may become effective only if--
        (1) the Secretary, not less than 30 days before the day on which 
    such contract is entered into, notifies the House of Representatives 
    and the Senate of the intention to enter into such a contract and 
    promptly thereafter publishes notice of such intention in the 
    Federal Register;
        (2) after entering into the contract, the Secretary transmits a 
    report to the House of Representatives and to the Senate containing 
    a copy of the final text of such contract together with--
            (A) the implementing bill, and an explanation of how the 
        implementing bill changes or affects existing law; and
            (B) a statement of the reasons why the contract serves the 
        interests of the United States and why the implementing bill is 
        required or appropriate to implement the contract; and

        (3) the implementing bill is enacted into law.

(d) Rules of Senate

    Subsections (e) through (h) of this section are enacted by the 
Congress--
        (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate, and as 
    such they are deemed a part of the rules of the Senate but 
    applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in the 
    Senate in the case of implementing bills and implementing revenue 
    bills described in subsection (a) of this section, and they 
    supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent 
    therewith; and
        (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the 
    Senate to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure of 
    the Senate) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent 
    as in the case of any other rule of the Senate.

(e) Introduction and referral in Senate

    (1) On the day on which an implementing bill is transmitted to the 
Senate under this section, the implementing bill shall be introduced (by 
request) in the Senate by the majority leader of the Senate, for himself 
or herself and the minority leader of the Senate, or by Members of the 
Senate designated by the majority leader and minority leader of the 
Senate.
    (2) If the Senate is not in session on the day on which such an 
agreement is submitted, the implementing bill shall be introduced in the 
Senate, as provided in the \1\ paragraph (1), on the first day 
thereafter on which the Senate is in session.
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    (3) Such bills shall be referred by the presiding officer of the 
Senate to the appropriate committee, or, in the case of a bill 
containing provisions within the jurisdiction of two or more committees, 
jointly to such committees for consideration of those provisions within 
their respective jurisdictions.

(f) Consideration of amendments to implementing bill prohibited in 
        Senate

    (1) No amendments to an implementing bill shall be in order in the 
Senate, and it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider an 
implementing bill that originated in the House if such bill passed the 
House containing any amendment to the introduced bill.
    (2) No motion to suspend the application of this subsection shall be 
in order in the Senate; nor shall it be in order in the Senate for the 
Presiding Officer to entertain a request to suspend the application of 
this subsection by unanimous consent.

(g) Discharge in Senate

    (1) Except as provided in paragraph (3), if the committee or 
committees of the Senate to which an implementing bill has been referred 
have not reported it at the close of the 30th day after its 
introduction, such committee or committees shall be automatically 
discharged from further consideration of the bill, and it shall be 
placed on the appropriate calendar.
    (2) A vote on final passage of the bill shall be taken in the Senate 
on or before the close of the 15th day after the bill is reported by the 
committee or committees to which it was referred or after such committee 
or committees have been discharged from further consideration of the 
bill.
    (3) The provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply in the 
Senate to an implementing revenue bill. An implementing revenue bill 
received from the House shall be, subject to subsection (f)(1) of this 
section, referred to the appropriate committee or committees of the 
Senate. If such committee or committees have not reported such bill at 
the close of the 15th day after its receipt by the Senate, such 
committee or committees shall be automatically discharged from further 
consideration of such bill and it shall be placed on the calendar. A 
vote on final passage of such bill shall be taken in the Senate on or 
before the close of the 15th day after such bill is reported by the 
committee or committees of the Senate to which it was referred, or after 
such committee or committees have been discharged from further 
consideration of such bill.
    (4) For purposes of this subsection, in computing a number of days 
in the Senate, there shall be excluded any day on which the Senate is 
not in session.

(h) Floor consideration in Senate

    (1) A motion in the Senate to proceed to the consideration of an 
implementing bill shall be privileged and not debatable. An amendment to 
the motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move to 
reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
    (2) Debate in the Senate on an implementing bill, and all debatable 
motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not 
more than 20 hours. The time shall be equally divided between, and 
controlled by, the majority leader and the minority leader or their 
designees.
    (3) Debate in the Senate on any debatable motion or appeal in 
connection with an implementing bill shall be limited to not more than 
one hour to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and 
the manager of the bill, except that in the event the manager of the 
bill is in favor of any such motion or appeal, the time in opposition 
thereto shall be controlled by the minority leader or his designee. Such 
leaders, or either of them, may, from time under their control on the 
passage of an implementing bill, allot additional time to any Senator 
during the consideration of any debatable motion or appeal.
    (4) A motion in the Senate to further limit debate is not debatable. 
A motion to recommit an implementing bill is not in order.

(Pub. L. 94-163, title I, Sec. 174, as added Pub. L. 101-383, 
Sec. 6(a)(4), Sept. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 731.)
