Sec. 3. Expedited consideration by Congress
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The President shall propose, at the time and in the manner provided in paragraph
(2), the carrying out of all or part of the recommendations contained in the Higher Education Regulatory Reform Report prepared by the Higher Education Regulatory Reform Task Force in accordance with section 2 . Not later than 120 days after the submission of the Higher Education Regulatory Reform Report to Congress under section 2(c) , the President shall transmit to Congress a special message to carry out all or part of the recommendations contained in such Report. The President shall include with that special message a bill that would carry out the recommendations. The President may not transmit more than one such special message each year. Within 14 days after the President submits to Congress a bill under paragraph
(2), the majority leader of the House of Representatives and the majority leader of the Senate shall each introduce such bill, by request. Any committee of the House of Representatives to which such bill is referred shall report it to the House without amendment not later than the 14th legislative day after the date of its introduction. If a committee fails to report the bill within that period or the House has adopted a concurrent resolution providing for adjournment sine die at the end of a Congress, such committee shall be automatically discharged from further consideration of the bill and it shall be placed on the appropriate calendar. Not later than 21 legislative days after such bill is reported or a committee has been discharged from further consideration thereof, it shall be in order to move to proceed to consider such bill in the House. Such a motion shall be highly privileged and not debatable, and shall be in order only at a time designated by the Speaker in the legislative schedule within two legislative days after the day on which the proponent announces an intention to the House to offer the motion provided that such notice may not be given until such bill is reported or a committee has been discharged from further consideration thereof. Such a motion shall not be in order after the House has disposed of a motion to proceed with respect to that special message. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the motion to its adoption without intervening motion. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion is disposed of shall not be in order. If the motion to proceed is agreed to, the House shall immediately proceed to consider such bill in the House without intervening motion. Such bill shall be considered as read. All points of order against the bill and against its consideration are waived. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill to its passage without intervening motion except 4 hours of debate equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent and one motion to limit debate on the bill. A motion to reconsider the vote on passage of the bill shall not be in order. The appropriate committee of the Senate shall report without amendment the bill referred to in subparagraph
(A)not later than the seventh session day after introduction. If a committee fails to report the bill within that period or the Senate has adopted a concurrent resolution providing for adjournment sine die at the end of a Congress, the Committee shall be automatically discharged from further consideration of the bill and it shall be placed on the appropriate calendar. Not later than 3 session days after the bill is reported in the Senate or the committee has been discharged thereof, it shall be in order for any Senator to move to proceed to consider the bill in the Senate. The motion shall be decided without debate and the motion to reconsider shall be deemed to have been laid on the table. Such a motion shall not be in order after the Senate has disposed of a prior motion to proceed with respect to the draft bill. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of the draft bill is agreed to, the Senate shall immediately proceed to consideration of the draft bill without intervening motion, order, or other business, and the draft bill shall remain the unfinished business of the Senate until disposed of. Consideration on the bill in the Senate under this subsection, and all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall not exceed 10 hours equally divided in the usual form. All points of order against the draft bill or its consideration are waived. Consideration in the Senate on any debatable motion or appeal in connection with the draft bill shall be limited to not more than 10 hours. A motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business, or a motion to recommit the draft bill is not in order. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the draft bill is agreed to or disagreed to is not in order. No amendment to, or motion to strike a provision from, the draft bill considered under this section shall be in order in either the House of Representatives or the Senate. If, before passing the bill, one House receives from the other a bill— the bill of the other House shall not be referred to a committee; and the procedure in the receiving House shall be the same as if no bill had been received from the other House until the vote on passage, when the bill received from the other House shall supplant the bill of the receiving House. This paragraph shall apply only to the bill referred to in subparagraph
(A), introduced pursuant to such subparagraph. For purposes of this section, continuity of a session of either House of Congress shall be considered as broken only by an adjournment of that House sine die, and the days on which that House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a date certain shall be excluded in the computation of any period.