[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1086 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1086

  Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the 
   consideration of legislation in the House unless the text of the 
 legislation which will be considered has been made publicly available 
       in electronic form for a mandatory minimum review period.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 18, 2020

   Mr. Cline (for himself and Mr. Phillips) 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 prohibit the 
   consideration of legislation in the House unless the text of the 
 legislation which will be considered has been made publicly available 
       in electronic form for a mandatory minimum review period.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This resolution may be cited as the ``48-Hour Bill Review 
Resolution''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING CONSIDERATION OF TEXT OF LEGISLATION UNTIL 
              COMPLETION OF MANDATORY MINIMUM REVIEW PERIOD.

    Rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by 
adding at the end the following new clause:
    ``13.(a) It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint 
resolution, resolution, or conference report unless the text to be 
considered of the bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference 
report has been publicly available in electronic form for the mandatory 
minimum review period.
    ``(b) The application of paragraph (a) to a bill, joint resolution, 
resolution, or conference report may not be waived other than by a 
resolution approved by the House which consists solely of the following 
text: `That clause 13(a) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives shall not apply to _____', with the blank space filled 
in with the number of the bill, joint resolution, resolution, or 
conference report involved.
    ``(c) In this clause, the `mandatory minimum review period' with 
respect to a bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference report 
is the 48-hour period which begins when the text to be considered of 
the bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference report is first 
made publicly available in electronic form.''.
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