[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 49 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 49

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to limit the number 
         of years a Member may serve on a particular committee.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 26, 1993

 Mr. Shaw (for himself, Mr. Shays, Mr. Gallegly, Mr. Goss, Mr. Porter, 
    Mr. Canady, and Mr. Miller of Florida) submitted the following 
        resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to limit the number 
         of years a Member may serve on a particular committee.

    Resolved, 

SECTION 1. LIMITATION OF SERVICE ON PARTICULAR COMMITTEES.

    Clause 6 of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives is 
amended by inserting at the end the following:
    ``(i) No Member shall serve as a member of any particular committee 
for more than 8 years (disregarding for this purpose any service 
performed as a member of such committee for less than a full session in 
any Congress). Previous service on any committee before the beginning 
of the One Hundred Third Congress shall be disregarded for purposes of 
this prohibition.''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 1 shall take effect immediately 
before noon January 3, 1995.

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