H.R. 569 authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants for sewer overflow control projects. The amendment would impose a condition on the making of such grants. It would require the recipients of the funds to certify that all entities carrying out the sewer overflow control projects had elected to participate in an employment eligibility verification program under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Clause 7 of rule XVI. the germaneness rule. provides that no proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment. As recorded in DeschlerBrown Precedents. volume 11. chapter 28. section 30.23. an amendment conditioning the availability to certain recipients of funds in an authorization bill upon their compliance with laws not otherwise applicable to those recipients and within the jurisdiction of other House committees may be ruled out as not germane.
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