[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4406 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4406

   To require that a monthly statement of costs charged against the 
 Official Mail Allowance for persons entitled to use the congressional 
   frank be kept and made available to the public, and to reduce the 
        amount of that allowance for any Member of the House of 
                            Representatives.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 12, 1994

Mr. Goodlatte introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require that a monthly statement of costs charged against the 
 Official Mail Allowance for persons entitled to use the congressional 
   frank be kept and made available to the public, and to reduce the 
        amount of that allowance for any Member of the House of 
                            Representatives.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 311 of the Legislative Appropriations Act, 1991 (2 U.S.C. 
59e) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(3)--
                    (A) by inserting ``(A)'' before ``shall include''; 
                and
                    (B) by striking ``frank.'' and inserting ``frank, 
                and (B) shall make available to the public a monthly 
                statement (based solely on data provided for that 
                purpose by such Committee) of costs charged against the 
                Official Mail Allowance for each person entitled to use 
                the congressional frank.''; and
            (2) in subsection (e)(2)(B)(i) by striking ``3'' and 
        inserting ``1.5''.

SEC. 2. APPLICABILITY.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall apply with 
respect to sessions of Congress beginning after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.

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