Rule 9.7.  Motion to adjourn or recess; effect of

If a motion to adjourn or to recess is made and adopted while a legislative instrument, or an amendment thereto, is under debate, then the pending amendment, if any, shall be deemed to have been withdrawn, and the legislative instrument shall remain in the same order of business it was in at the time of the motion and shall be considered first when the House next returns to such order of business.

Mason's Manual:  Sec. 203 and 214-216

HR 3, 1973; HR 4, 1978.