[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5741 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5741

 To amend title 44, United States Code, to require the Director of the 
  Government Publishing Office to distribute the Federal Register to 
   Congressional offices only in an electronic format, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 12, 2016

  Ms. Jenkins of Kansas (for herself, Mr. Guinta, Mr. Olson, and Mr. 
   Rokita) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the 
  Committee on House Administration, 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 amend title 44, United States Code, to require the Director of the 
  Government Publishing Office to distribute the Federal Register to 
   Congressional offices only in an electronic format, 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 ``Nonessential Government Printing 
Reduction Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. MANDATORY USE OF ELECTRONIC FORMAT FOR DISTRIBUTION OF FEDERAL 
              REGISTER TO CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES.

    (a) Mandatory Use.--Section 1506 of title 44, United States Code, 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The Administrative Committee'' and 
        inserting ``(a) Composition; Duties.--The Administrative 
        Committee'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(4), by striking ``the number of 
        copies'' and inserting ``subject to subsection (b), the number 
        of copies''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Mandatory Use of Electronic Format for Distribution of 
Federal Register to Congressional Offices.--
            ``(1) Prohibiting subscription to printed copies without 
        request.--Under the regulations prescribed to carry out 
        subsection (a)(4), except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
        Director of the Government Publishing Office shall make the 
        Federal Register available to any office of Congress only in an 
        electronic format, and may not print or distribute a copy of 
        the Federal Register for an office of Congress during a year 
        unless--
                    ``(A) the office requests a printed copy of a 
                specific issue of the Federal Register; and
                    ``(B) the office reimburses the Director for the 
                costs of printing and distributing the copy for the 
                office.
            ``(2) Subscriptions permitted.--The Director may provide a 
        printed copy of all issues of the Federal Register for a year 
        to an office of Congress if the office enters into a 
        subscription agreement with the Director under which the office 
        will pay the Director in advance for the costs the Director 
        will incur during the year for printing and distributing such 
        issues to the office (as determined by the Director in 
        consultation with the Administrative Committee).
            ``(3) Source of funds for copies provided to offices of 
        members of congress.--In the case of an office of Congress 
        which is--
                    ``(A) an office of a Member of the House of 
                Representatives (including an office of a Delegate or 
                Resident Commissioner to the Congress), any amounts 
                paid by the office to the Director under this 
                subsection shall be derived from the Members' 
                Representational Allowance for the office; or
                    ``(B) an office of a Senator, any amounts paid by 
                the office to the Director under this subsection shall 
                be derived from the Senators' Official Personnel and 
                Office Expense Account for the office.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to issues of the Federal Register produced on or 
after the first day of the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress.
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