Sponsor
Charles Roy
Representative · R-TX
Representative · R-TX
The bill expedites House consideration and creates predictable, faster floor procedures—reducing funding-gap risk and permitting delays for certain projects—while trading away deliberation, minority input, procedural safeguards, and some environmental and transparency protections.
Federal employees, state and local governments, and the public: multiple bills (firearms, undersea cables, energy) can be moved to final House consideration more quickly with time-limited, predictable debate windows, speeding congressional action.
Taxpayers, federal employees, and state/local governments: easier floor scheduling for continuing appropriations reduces the risk of federal funding gaps and provides short-term certainty for programs and contractors before Sept 30, 2026.
Small-business owners, contractors, and state governments involved in undersea cable work: preauthorized fiber-optic cable repair and operation would face fewer federal permitting delays and state authorizations would remain effective, reducing duplicative review.
All Americans (indirectly): limiting debate time and opportunity for floor amendments across multiple measures reduces legislative scrutiny and the chance to correct or improve bills before passage.
Minority party members and the public: curtailing procedural tools (beyond a single motion to recommit) concentrates power in the majority and reduces minority influence on final legislation.
Law enforcement, taxpayers, and individuals affected by major policy changes: waiving points of order and deeming substitutes adopted can fast-track provisions that bypass procedural safeguards, increasing risk of unintended legal, safety, or constitutional consequences.
Based on analysis of 8 sections of legislative text.
Expedites House consideration of three measures by waiving points of order, deeming committee substitutes adopted, limiting debate to one hour, allowing one motion to recommit, and waives a Rules Committee same‑day two‑thirds vote for certain FY2026 continuing-appropriations resolutions.
Introduced February 11, 2026 by Charles Roy · Last progress February 11, 2026
Establishes special House floor procedures to speed consideration and final passage of three separate measures and temporarily relaxes a Rules Committee voting requirement for certain short-term spending resolutions. For each covered measure the resolution waives points of order, deems the committee’s amendment in the nature of a substitute adopted, treats the bill as read, limits debate to one hour equally divided between designated committee leaders or designees, and allows a single motion to recommit. It also suspends the Rules Committee’s same-day two‑thirds vote requirement for any resolution through February 13, 2026, that relates to a continuing appropriations measure for FY2026.