[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 183 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 183

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the text 
 of any legislation that will be marked up at a meeting for the markup 
 of legislation by a committee to be publicly available in electronic 
    form at least 72 hours prior to the commencement of the meeting.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2017

  Mr. O'Halleran (for himself, Mr. Evans, Mr. McGovern, and Mr. Soto) 
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 require the text 
 of any legislation that will be marked up at a meeting for the markup 
 of legislation by a committee to be publicly available in electronic 
    form at least 72 hours prior to the commencement of the meeting.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. REQUIRING TEXT OF LEGISLATION TO BE AVAILABLE AT LEAST 72 
              HOURS PRIOR TO MARKUP.

    Clause 2(g)(4) of rule XI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended by striking ``24 hours'' each place it 
appears and inserting ``72 hours''.
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