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[CITE: 50USC1545]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                    CHAPTER 33--WAR POWERS RESOLUTION
 
Sec. 1545. Congressional priority procedures for joint 
        resolution or bill
        

(a) Time requirement; referral to Congressional committee; single report

    Any joint resolution or bill introduced pursuant to section 1544(b) 
of this title at least thirty calendar days before the expiration of the 
sixty-day period specified in such section shall be referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives or the 
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, as the case may be, and 
such committee shall report one such joint resolution or bill, together 
with its recommendations, not later than twenty-four calendar days 
before the expiration of the sixty-day period specified in such section, 
unless such House shall otherwise determine by the yeas and nays.

(b) Pending business; vote

    Any joint resolution or bill so reported shall become the pending 
business of the House in question (in the case of the Senate the time 
for debate shall be equally divided between the proponents and the 
opponents), and shall be voted on within three calendar days thereafter, 
unless such House shall otherwise determine by yeas and nays.

(c) Referral to other House committee

    Such a joint resolution or bill passed by one House shall be 
referred to the committee of the other House named in subsection (a) of 
this section and shall be reported out not later than fourteen calendar 
days before the expiration of the sixty-day period specified in section 
1544(b) of this title. The joint resolution or bill so reported shall 
become the pending business of the House in question and shall be voted 
on within three calendar days after it has been reported, unless such 
House shall otherwise determine by yeas and nays.

(d) Disagreement between Houses

    In the case of any disagreement between the two Houses of Congress 
with respect to a joint resolution or bill passed by both Houses, 
conferees shall be promptly appointed and the committee of conference 
shall make and file a report with respect to such resolution or bill not 
later than four calendar days before the expiration of the sixty-day 
period specified in section 1544(b) of this title. In the event the 
conferees are unable to agree within 48 hours, they shall report back to 
their respective Houses in disagreement. Notwithstanding any rule in 
either House concerning the printing of conference reports in the Record 
or concerning any delay in the consideration of such reports, such 
report shall be acted on by both Houses not later than the expiration of 
such sixty-day period.

(Pub. L. 93-148, Sec. 6, Nov. 7, 1973, 87 Stat. 557.)

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Foreign Affairs of House of Representatives treated as 
referring to Committee on International Relations of House of 
Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
