What I understand is that before a committee report comes to the House floor, it has to go through our hands and we have to pass it, even if the motion is written the way it is. That has always been the case with committee reports.
In this case, we can just cross out “in public” so it's in closed session. Either way, before the report goes to the House, we have to vote on it. We can't present a report to the House without the committee having adopted it. That's the way it's done. It has always been that way.
I understand this is tricky, but it is not a different situation than what we have seen before, even with the subcommittee report. So we need to pass it anyway, regardless of how the motion is written.
In either case, if the committee votes against the report, we will not send it to the House. If we pass it, it will go there. We don't have to send it to the House, but we do have to vote on it.