Sponsor
Austin Scott
Representative · R-GA
Representative · R-GA
Establishes expedited House-floor procedures, waivers, and engrossment instructions to consider several bills including an ethanol RVP waiver amendment, a parental‑consent school bill, a FY2026 budget resolution, and ABMC marker corrections.
The rule package speeds and centralizes House floor action—making legislative scheduling and routine business more efficient and enabling quick consideration of specific measures—at the cost of curtailing debate, amendment rights, and procedural checks, which raises risks of reduced oversight, drafting errors, and concrete harms for affected students, communities, and budget outcomes.
Members of Congress, staff, and the legislative process: the rules in multiple sections speed floor consideration and reduce procedural delays so bills move to final votes faster.
Members, staff, and state/local partners: the measures create a more predictable floor schedule (shorter, structured debate and pre‑vetted amendment orders), helping offices plan workflow and committee follow‑up.
Congress and taxpayers: the Rules allow immediate consideration of the FY2026 concurrent budget, accelerating congressional action on spending priorities.
Rank‑and‑file Members, oversight functions, and the public: tight time limits, bans on many amendments, prohibition on division of the question, and waivers of points of order substantially reduce debate, amendment opportunities, and procedural checks — weakening congressional oversight and member input.
Communities, fuel markets, and taxpayers: fast‑tracking changes to Clean Air Act‑related provisions (e.g., ethanol/RVP issues) without extended review risks environmental harm and economic disruption for affected localities and markets.
Taxpayers, state budgets, and constituents: rushing approval of the FY2026 concurrent budget and limiting amendment opportunity risks locking in multi‑year spending and revenue levels without full chamber scrutiny.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Official title: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7567) to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2031, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2616) to require public elementary and middle schools that receive funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to obtain parental consent before changing a minor’s gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name on any school form or sex-based accommodations, including locker rooms or bathrooms; providing for consideration of the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 33) setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2027 through 2035; providing for consideration of the bill (S. 1318) to direct the American Battle Monuments Commission to establish a program to identify American-Jewish servicemembers buried in United States military cemeteries overseas under markers that incorrectly represent their religion and heritage, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1346) to amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the ethanol waiver for Reid Vapor Pressure under that Act, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.
Introduced April 29, 2026 by Austin Scott · Last progress April 29, 2026
Sets House floor rules and expedited procedures to consider and pass several separate measures: an amendment to the Clean Air Act on ethanol Reid vapor pressure waivers, instructions for combining texts into an engrossed vehicle, limits on further amendments to a larger agriculture/appropriations bill, immediate consideration of a parental-consent school policy bill, immediate consideration of the FY2026 concurrent budget resolution, expedited consideration of a bill directing the American Battle Monuments Commission to correct religious markers for American‑Jewish servicemembers buried overseas, and authorization to suspend the rules through May 1, 2026. It authorizes specific debate times, waives points of order, deems certain committee prints adopted as amendments in the nature of a substitute, allows technical clerical corrections to engrossed texts, and preserves motions to recommit where specified.