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 104 STAT. 732 PUBLIC LAW 101-383 —SEPT. 15, 1990 Federal Register, publication. Reports. "(1) the Secretary, not less than 30 days before the day on which such contract is entered into, notifies the House of Representatives and the Senate of the intention to enter into such a contract and promptly thereafter publishes notice of such intention in the Federal Register; "(2) after entering into the contract, the Secretary transmits a report to the House of Representatives and to the Senate containing a copy of the final text of such contract together with— "(A) the implementing bill, and an explanation of how the implementing bill changes or affects existing law; and "(B) a statement of the reasons why the contract serves the interests of the United States and why the implementing bill is required or appropriate to implement the contract; and "(3) the implementing bill is enacted into law. "(d) RULES OF THE SENATE.— Subsections (e) through (h) are enacted by the Congress— "(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate, and as such they are deemed a part of the rules of the Senate but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in the Senate in the case of implementing bills and implementing revenue bills described in subsection (a), and they supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and "(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the Senate to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure of the Senate) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the Senate. " (e) INTRODUCTION AND REFERRAL IN THE SENATE.— (1) On the day on which an implementing bill is ti-ansmitted to the Senate under this section, the implementing bill shall be introduced (by request) in the Senate by the majority leader of the Senate, for himself or herself and the minority leader of the Senate, or by Members of the Senate designated by the majority leader and minority leader of the Senate. "(2) If the Senate is not in session on the day on which such an agreement is submitted, the implementing bill shall be introduced in the Senate, as provided in the paragraph (1), on the first day thereafter on which the Senate is in session. "(3) Such bills shall be referred by the presiding officer of the Senate to the appropriate committee, or, in the case of a bill containing provisions within the jurisdiction of two or more committees, jointly to such committees for consideration of those provisions within their respective jurisdictions. "(f) CONSIDERATION OF AMENDMENTS TO IMPLEMENTING BILL PROHIBITED IN THE SENATE.— (1) No amendments to an implementing bill shall be in order in the Senate, and it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider an implementing bill that originated in the House if such bill passed the House containing any amendment to the introduced bill. "(2) No motion to suspend the application of this subsection shall be in order in the Senate; nor shall it be in order in the Senate for the Presiding Officer to entertain a request to suspend the application of this subsection by unanimous consent. "(g) DISCHARGE IN THE SENATE. —(1) Except as provided in paragraph (3), if the committee or committees of the Senate to which an

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