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Discharge Petition No. 1 Description: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 619) to amend title 18 United States Code to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion. View Petition View Bill 117th Congress
SPONSOR: Chip Roy DESCRIPTION: Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XV I Chip Roy move to discharge the Committee on Rules from the consideration of the resolution entitled a resolution providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 859) to prohibit the President from issuing moratoria on leasing and permitting energy and minerals on certain Federal land and for other purposes which was ...
What's a Discharge Petition? After a bill has been introduced and referred to a standing committee for 30 days a member of the House can file a motion to have the bill discharged or released from consideration by the committee. In order to do this a majority of the House (218 voting members not delegates) must sign the petition.
SPONSOR: Kat Cammack DESCRIPTION: Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XV I Kat Cammack move to discharge the Committee on Rules from the consideration of the resolution entitled a resolution providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 619) to amend title 18 United States Code to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who ...
In United States parliamentary procedure a discharge petition is a means of bringing a bill out of committee and to the floor for ...