[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1615 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1615

   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 11, 1995

 Mr. Goodlatte (for himself, Mr. Inglis, Mr. Poshard, Mr. Hancock, Mr. 
 Frank of Massachusetts, and Mr. Bartlett of Maryland) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Oversight

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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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Franking Reduction Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. 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. 3. 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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