AVAILABILITY OF REPORTS AND HEARINGS
A measure or matter reported by a committee (except the Committee on Rules in the case of a resolution providing a rule, joint rule, or order of business) may not be considered in the House until the third calendar day (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays unless the House is in session on those days) on which the report of that committee on that measure has been available to the Members of the House.
This rule is subject to certain exceptions including resolutions providing for certain privileged matters and measures declaring war or other national emergency. However, it is in order to consider a report from the Committee on Rules on the same day it is reported that proposes only to waive this availability requirement.
If hearings were held on a measure or matter so reported, the
committee is required to make every reasonable effort to have those hearings
printed and available for distribution to the Members of the House prior to the
consideration of the measure in the House. Committees are also required, to the
maximum extent feasible, to make their publications available in electronic
form. A general appropriation bill reported by the Committee on Appropriations
may not be considered until printed committee hearings and a committee report
thereon have been available to the Members of the House for at least three
calendar days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays unless the House
is in session on those days).