Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a committee report on a bill or joint resolution to include a statement of whether the legislation creates any duplicative programs.

Amends Rule XIII (Calendars and Committee Reports) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a committee report on a bill or joint resolution authorizing an appropriation for a new program to include a statement of whether the program has similar or overlapping objectives to any other program within the same federal agency.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 178 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 178

    Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a 
 committee report on a bill or joint resolution to include a statement 
      of whether the legislation creates any duplicative programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2011

Mr. Heck submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                           Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a 
 committee report on a bill or joint resolution to include a statement 
      of whether the legislation creates any duplicative programs.

    Resolved, That clause 3 of rule XIII is amended by adding at the 
end the following new paragraph:
    ``(i) The report of a committee on a bill or joint resolution 
authorizing an appropriation for a new program shall include a 
statement of whether the program has similar or overlapping objectives 
to any other program within the same Federal agency.''.
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