[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1195 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1195

To amend title 44, United States Code, to restrict the distribution of 
free printed copies of the Federal Register to Members of Congress and 
   other officers and employees of the United States, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 22, 2017

  Mr. Portman introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 44, United States Code, to restrict the distribution of 
free printed copies of the Federal Register to Members of Congress and 
   other officers and employees 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 ``Federal Register Printing Savings 
Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. RESTRICTIONS ON DISTRIBUTION OF FREE PRINTED COPIES OF FEDERAL 
              REGISTER TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.

    (a) Restrictions.--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) Restrictions on Distribution of Free Printed Copies to 
Members of Congress and Officers and Employees of the United States.--
            ``(1) Prohibiting subscription to printed copies without 
        request.--Under the regulations prescribed to carry out 
        subsection (a)(4), the Director of the Government Publishing 
        Office may not provide a printed copy of the Federal Register 
        without charge to any Member of Congress or any other office of 
        the United States during a year unless--
                    ``(A) the Member or office requests a printed copy 
                of a specific issue of the Federal Register; or
                    ``(B) during that year or during the previous year, 
                the Member or office requested a subscription to 
                printed copies of the Federal Register for that year, 
                as described in paragraph (2).
            ``(2) Administration of subscriptions.--The regulations 
        prescribed to carry out subsection (a)(4) shall include--
                    ``(A) provisions regarding notifications to offices 
                of Members of Congress and other offices of the United 
                States of the restrictions of paragraph (1);
                    ``(B) provisions describing the process by which 
                Members and other offices may request a specific issue 
                of the Federal Register for purposes of paragraph 
                (1)(A); and
                    ``(C) provisions describing the process by which 
                Members and other offices may request a subscription to 
                the Federal Register for purposes of paragraph (1)(B), 
                except that such regulations shall limit the period for 
                such a subscription to not longer than 1 year.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on January 1, 2018.
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