[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4006 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4006

To provide the public with access to the laws of the United States, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 16, 2015

 Mr. Brat (for himself and Mr. Moulton) introduced the following bill; 
  which was referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in 
  addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide the public with access to the laws of the United States, and 
                          for other purposes.

    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 ``Statutes at Large Modernization 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.

    (a) Archivist Requirement To Make Laws Available.--Section 112 of 
title 1, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new sentence: ``The Archivist shall make available anything 
compiled, edited, indexed, and published under this section to the 
public at no cost on a website in a searchable, non-proprietary format. 
The Archivist shall ensure that the searchable online edition of the 
United States Statutes at Large is prepared in consultation and 
coordination with entities that develop formatting conventions used for 
enrolled bills and other legislative materials, which may include the 
Library of Congress, the Office of the Clerk of the House, the Office 
of the Secretary of the Senate, the Office of the Legislative Counsel 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Office of the Law 
Revision Council, the Congressional Research Service, the Government 
Publishing Office, and such other entities that the Archivist considers 
appropriate.''
    (b) Librarian of Congress Requirement To Incorporate Searchable 
Statutes at Large Into Legislative Information Retrieval System.--
Section 209 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1996 (2 
U.S.C. 180) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(f) In addition to the legislative information described in 
subsection (b), the relevant electronic information made available 
under section 112 of title 1, United States Code, shall be incorporated 
into the legislative information service to the extent practicable.''.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 to 
carry out the provisions of this Act.
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