118 HRES 1512 IH: Congressional Modernization Competition Resolution of 2024 U.S. House of Representatives 2024-09-25 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

IV118th CONGRESS2d SessionH. RES. 1512IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESSeptember 25, 2024Mr. Kilmer (for himself, Mr. Morelle, and Mr. Carey) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on House AdministrationRESOLUTIONEstablishing the Congressional Modernization Competition, and for other purposes.

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Short title

This resolution may be cited as the Congressional Modernization Competition Resolution of 2024.

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Findings

The House of Representatives finds the following:(1)The House of Representatives was designed to be the representative branch of government closest to the people.(2)The House of Representatives must continually assess its capacity to fulfill its constitutional responsibilities.(3)Civic education and citizen participation are vital components to the continued health of our democracy.(4)Research shows that participation in civic life at an early age allows students to build interest and skillsets that will keep them engaged citizens throughout their lives.(5)Ideas to modernize Congress can and should come from Americans of different ages, backgrounds, and walks of life. (6)It is therefore appropriate for the House of Representatives to institute a new competition to both encourage students’ participation in civic life, while providing Congress with additional recommendations to modernize and improve its work.

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Congressional competition in effectiveness, efficiency, and transparency

(a)

Establishment of competition

There is hereby established an academic competition for the purposes of developing ideas for increasing the effectiveness, efficiency, and transparency of the operations of the House of Representatives which shall be held each year among students in each congressional district.(b)

Regulations

The competition under this subsection (a) shall be carried out in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Committee on House Administration, except that the regulations shall permit the office of a Member to seek guidance from outside experts in the fields of government, political science, and civics education for the purposes of establishing criteria for the selection of competition judges and for the judgment of competition submissions.