NOTICE OF ACTION Tuesday, May 21, 2002 11:30 P.M. _______________________________________   H.R. 4775 Appropriations 2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Recovery from and Response to Terrorists Attacks on the United States The Committee granted, by a vote of 8 to 2, an open rule providing one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations. The rule waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. The rule provides that the amendments printed in the Rules Committee report shall be considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole. The rule waives points of order against provisions in the bill, except as specified in the rule. The rule authorizes the Chair to accord priority in recognition to Members who have pre-printed their amendments in the Congressional Record. The rule waives points of order during consideration of the bill against amendments for failure to comply with clause 2(e)of rule XXI (prohibiting non-emergency designated amendments to be offered to an appropriations bill containing an emergency designation). The rule provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. The rule provides that House Concurrent Resolution 353, as adopted by the House, shall have force and effect as though adopted by Congress. _______________________________________ Emergency Items   H.R. 3448 Energy & Commerce Public Health Security and Bioterrorism and Response Act of 2002 – CONFERENCE REPORT The Committee granted, by voice vote, a rule waiving all points of order against the conference report and against its consideration. The rule provides that the conference report shall be considered as read.   H.R. 3129 Ways & Means Customs Border Security Act of 2002 The Committee granted, by voice vote, a structured rule providing one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways and Means. The rule waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. The rule provides that it shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means now printed in the bill. The rule waives all points of order against the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute. The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in the Rules Committee report accompanying the resolution. The rule provides that the amendments printed in the report may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only the member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. The rule waives all points of order against the amendments printed in the report. Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.