[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 835 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 835

   Amending the rules of the House of Representatives to provide for 
            transparency in the committee amendment process.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 15, 2009

   Ms. Jenkins (for herself, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Cantor, Mr. Pence, Mr. 
    Paulsen, Mr. McClintock, Mrs. Schmidt, Mr. Lee of New York, Mr. 
    Hensarling, Mr. Latta, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. Reichert, Mr. 
 Manzullo, Mr. Schock, Mr. Dent, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Kline of Minnesota, 
  Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Gerlach, Ms. Foxx, Mr. Terry, Mr. 
  Graves, Mr. Barton of Texas, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Mica, Mr. Smith of 
 Texas, Mr. Daniel E. Lungren of California, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, 
Mr. Lucas, Mr. Moran of Kansas, Mr. Scalise, Mr. Smith of Nebraska, Mr. 
 Kingston, Mr. Coble, Mrs. Lummis, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Carter, Mr. Poe of 
 Texas, Ms. Granger, Mr. Thornberry, Mr. Dreier, Mr. Buyer, Mr. Camp, 
  Mr. Posey, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Bartlett, Mr. Bachus, Mr. Hastings of 
    Washington, Mr. McCarthy of California, Mr. Hall of Texas, Mr. 
   Hoekstra, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Garrett of New Jersey, Mr. Lance, Mr. 
 Buchanan, Mr. Davis of Kentucky, Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Mr. Boustany, 
    Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Latham, Mr. 
    Gallegly, Mrs. McMorris Rodgers, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. 
   Guthrie, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Marchant, Mr. Chaffetz, Mr. Issa, Mrs. 
   Blackburn, Mr. Olson, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Coffman of 
Colorado, Mr. Westmoreland, Mrs. Miller of Michigan, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. 
Neugebauer, Mr. Frelinghuysen, Mr. McCaul, Mr. Harper, Ms. Ginny Brown-
  Waite of Florida, Mr. Fleming, Mr. Walden, Mr. Upton, Mr. Price of 
 Georgia, Mr. Ehlers, Mrs. Bono Mack, Mr. Mack, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Jones, 
 Mr. Pitts, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida, and 
  Mr. Barrett of South Carolina) 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 provide for 
            transparency in the committee amendment process.

    Resolved, That--
     (a) Clause 2(e) of rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended by adding the following subparagraph:
                    ``(5)(A) Not later than 24 hours after commencing a 
                meeting to consider a measure or matter, the chair of 
                such committee shall cause the text of such measure or 
                matter to be made publicly available in an electronic 
                form.
                    ``(B) Not later than 24 hours after the adoption of 
                any amendment to a measure or matter considered by a 
                committee, the chair of such committee shall cause the 
                text of each such amendment to be made publicly 
                available in an electronic form.''.
    (b) Clause 3(a)(1) of rule XIII is amended by striking ``and'' at 
the end of subdivision (A), striking the period and inserting a 
semicolon at the end of subdivision (B), and adding the following 
subdivision:
                            ``(C) shall not include recommended 
                        amendments made to such measure or matter after 
                        it was ordered reported except technical and 
                        conforming changes authorized by the committee 
                        to correct section numbers, cross-references, 
                        punctuation, grammar, spelling, or to maintain 
                        mathematical consistency.''.
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