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This resolution clarifies which substitute will be debated and advances floor consideration, but it does so by waiving rules and privileging certain amendments, reducing procedural protections and potentially disadvantaging other members and amendment sponsors.
Members of the House will have a specific, timely printed substitute amendment designated for consideration, which clarifies what will be debated and reduces uncertainty about the floor amendment process.
House members (especially minority members) face reduced procedural protections because a House rule is waived to allow consideration of the measure, which can limit their ability to raise procedural objections or enforce standard decorum during debate.
Members of the House who offer substitute amendments (and other Representatives) may be disadvantaged because the resolution gives special treatment to one Representative's amendment, limiting equal treatment of other substitutes.
When multiple qualifying substitutes are submitted, only the last qualifying substitute is treated as adopted, which can preempt earlier members' work and upset procedural expectations about fair consideration of substitutes.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Waives a specific House rule for consideration of a bill and deems a qualifying substitute amendment printed at least one day earlier as received for printing, with only the last qualifying substitute treated as operative.
Introduced February 17, 2026 by Brian K. Fitzpatrick · Last progress February 17, 2026
Waives a specific House rule provision for consideration of a particular pending bill and sets rules about how a substitute amendment is treated for printing and consideration. It declares that a substitute amendment that was submitted and printed at least one day before consideration will be treated as "received for printing," and if more than one such substitute meets the timing rule, only the last one submitted is considered the operative substitute. The resolution changes only internal House procedural requirements for debate and amendment handling; it does not itself change policy or appropriate funds. Its primary effect is to control which amendment can be formally printed and offered during floor consideration of that bill.