[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 967 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 967

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to permit Members to 
        vote by proxy in certain cases, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 16, 2024

Mrs. Luna (for herself, Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Vargas, 
  Mr. Phillips, Mr. Lieu, Ms. Underwood, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Takano, Mrs. 
 Chavez-DeRemer, Mr. Kilmer, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Ms. Tokuda, Ms. 
Chu, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Gaetz, Mr. Moskowitz, Ms. 
Dean of Pennsylvania, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, and Mr. 
 Evans) 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 permit Members to 
        vote by proxy in certain cases, and for other purposes.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. PERMITTING PROXY VOTING FOR MEMBERS IN CERTAIN CASES.

    Clause 2 of rule III of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (a), by striking ``A Member may not'' and 
        inserting ``Except as provided in paragraph (c), a Member may 
        not'';
            (2) in paragraph (b), by striking ``No other person may'' 
        and inserting ``Except as provided in paragraph (c), no other 
        person may''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(c) In the case of a Member who has given birth, the Member may, 
during the period that begins on the date of such birth and ends 6 
weeks after such date, designate another Member as a proxy who may cast 
the vote of such Member, but in no case may another Member record the 
presence of such Member for the purposes of establishing a quorum in 
the House or the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the 
Union.''.
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