Number: 98-188
Title: House Committee Markup: Vehicle for Consideration and Amendment
Authors: Judy Schneider, Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: The chair may lay before the committee either a bill that has been previously introduced and referred, or the text of a draft measure that has not been formally introduced. In each case, the text laid before the committee is itself the markup vehicle, but, in the second case, at the end of the markup process, the text must be incorporated or converted into a measure for reporting to the House. Alternatively, the markup vehicle may be placed before the committee as an amendment in the nature of a substitute for the bill or text initially called up.
Pages: 2
Date: June 1, 2006