[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 121 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4154-S4155]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 2401. Mr. PERDUE (for himself and Mr. Whitehouse) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2301 proposed by Mr.
Inhofe to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. __. FEDERAL REGISTER MODERNIZATION.
(a) References to Printing.--Chapter 15 of title 44, United
States Code, is amended--
(1) in section 1502--
(A) in the heading, by striking ``printing'' and inserting
``publishing''; and
(B) by striking ``printing and distribution'' and inserting
``publishing'';
(2) in section 1507--
(A) by striking ``the duplicate originals or certified
copies of the document have'' and inserting ``the document
has''; and
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``printed'' and inserting
``published''; and
(3) in section 1509, in subsections (a) and (b), by
striking ``printing, reprinting, wrapping, binding, and
distributing'' and inserting ``publishing'', each place it
appears.
(b) Publish Defined.--Section 1501 of title 44, United
States Code, is amended--
(1) by striking ``; and'' at the end of the definition for
``person'' and inserting a semicolon; and
(2) by inserting after the definition for ``person'' the
following:
`` `publish' means to circulate for sale or distribution to
the public; and''.
(c) Filing Documents With Office Amendment.--Section 1503
of title 44, United States Code, is amended to read as
follows:
``Sec. 1503. Filing documents with Office; notation of time;
public inspection; transmission for publishing
``The original document required or authorized to be
published by section 1505 shall be filed with the Office of
the Federal Register for publication at times established by
the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register by
regulation. The Archivist of the United States shall cause to
be noted on the original of each document the day and hour of
filing. Upon filing, the document shall be immediately
available for public inspection in the Office. The original
shall be retained by the National Archives and Records
Administration and shall be available for inspection under
regulations prescribed by the Archivist, unless such original
is disposed of in accordance with disposal schedules
submitted by the Administrative Committee and authorized by
the Archivist pursuant to regulations issued under chapter
33; however, originals of proclamations of the President and
Executive orders shall be permanently retained by the
Administration as part of the National Archives of the United
States. The Office shall transmit to the Government
Publishing Office, as provided by this chapter, each document
required or authorized to be published by section 1505. Every
Federal agency shall cause to be transmitted for filing the
original of all such documents issued, prescribed, or
promulgated by the agency.''.
(d) Federal Register Amendment.--Section 1504 of title 44,
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 1504. `Federal Register'; publishing; contents;
distribution; price
``Documents required or authorized to be published by
section 1505 shall be published immediately by the Government
Publishing Office in a serial publication designated the
`Federal Register'. The Director of the Government Publishing
Office shall make available the facilities of the Government
Publishing Office for the prompt publication of the Federal
Register in the manner and at the times required by this
chapter and the regulations prescribed under it. The contents
of the daily issues shall be indexed and constitute all
documents, required or authorized to be published, filed with
the Office of the Federal Register up to the time of the day
immediately preceding the day of publication fixed by
regulations under this chapter. There shall be published with
each document a copy of the notation, required to be made by
section 1503, of the day and hour when, upon filing with the
Office, the document was made available for public
inspection. Distribution shall be made at a time in the
morning of the day of distribution fixed by regulations
prescribed under this chapter. The prices to be charged for
the Federal Register may be fixed by the Administrative
Committee of the Federal Register established by section 1506
without reference to the restrictions placed upon and fixed
for the sale of Government publications by sections 1705 and
1708.''.
(e) Documents To Be Published in Federal Register.--Section
1505 of title 44, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (b)--
(A) in the heading, by striking ``Comments'' and inserting
``News Commentary''; and
(B) by striking ``comments'' and inserting ``news
commentary'';
(2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d);
(3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new
subsection:
``(c) Alternative Publication.--In a continuity of
operations event in which the Government Publishing Office
does not fulfill the publication requirements of this
chapter, the Office of the Federal Register may establish a
website to publish the Federal Register until such time that
the Government Publishing Office resumes publication.''; and
(4) in subsection (d), as so redesignated, in the matter
following paragraph (2)--
(A) by inserting ``telecommunications, the Internet,''
after ``the press, the radio,''; and
(B) by striking ``and two duplicate originals or two
certified copies'' and inserting ``document''.
(f) Administrative Committee of the Federal Register
Amendment.--Subsection (a) of section 1506 of title 44,
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
``(a) Composition; Duties.--The Administrative Committee of
the Federal Register shall consist of the Archivist of the
United States or Acting Archivist, who shall chair the
committee, an officer of the Department of Justice designated
by the Attorney General, and the Director of the Government
Publishing Office or Acting Director of the Government
Publishing Office. The Director of the Federal Register shall
act as secretary of the committee. The committee shall
prescribe, with the approval of the President, regulations
for carrying out this chapter. The regulations shall provide
for, among other things--
``(1) the documents which shall be authorized under section
1505(b) to be published in the Federal Register;
``(2) the manner and form in which the Federal Register
shall be published;
``(3) the manner and form in which agencies submit
documents for publication in the Federal Register and special
editions of the Federal Register;
``(4) subject to subsection (b), the manner of distribution
to Members of Congress, officers and employees of the United
States, or Federal agency, for official use, and the number
which shall be available for distribution to the public;
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``(5) the prices to be charged for individual copies of,
and subscriptions to, the Federal Register and any reprints
and bound volumes of it;
``(6) the manner and form by which the Federal Register may
receive information and comments from the public, if
practicable and efficient; and
``(7) special editions of the Federal Register.''.
(g) Code of Federal Regulations Amendment.--Section 1510 of
title 44, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 1510. Code of Federal Regulations
``(a) Special Edition for Codification of Agency
Documents.--The Administrative Committee of the Federal
Register, with the approval of the President, may require,
from time to time as it considers necessary, the preparation
and publication in a special edition of the Federal Register
a complete codification of the documents of each agency of
the Government having general applicability and legal effect,
issued or promulgated by the agency by publication in the
Federal Register or by filing with the Administrative
Committee, and which are relied upon by the agency as
authority for, or are invoked or used by it in the discharge
of, its activities or functions, and are in effect as to
facts arising on or after dates specified by the
Administrative Committee.
``(b) Code of Federal Regulations.--A codification prepared
under subsection (a) of this section shall be published and
shall be designated as the `Code of Federal Regulations'. The
Administrative Committee shall regulate the manner and forms
of publishing this codification.
``(c) Supplementation, Collation, and Republication.--The
Administrative Committee shall regulate the supplementation
and the collation and republication of the codification with
a view to keeping the Code of Federal Regulations as current
as practicable. Each unit of codification shall be
supplemented and republished at least once each calendar
year. The Office of the Federal Register may create updates
of each unit of codification from time to time and make the
same available electronically or may provide public access
using an electronic edition that allows a user to select a
specific date and retrieve the version of the codification in
effect as of that date.
``(d) Preparation and Publication by the Federal
Register.--The Office of the Federal Register shall prepare
and publish the codifications, supplements, collations,
indices, and user aids authorized by this section.
``(e) Prima Facie Evidence.--The codified documents of the
several agencies published in the Code of Federal Regulations
under this section, as amended by documents subsequently
filed with the Office and published in the daily issues of
the Federal Register, shall be prima facie evidence of the
text of the documents and of the fact that they are in effect
on and after the date of publication.
``(f) Regulations.--The Administrative Committee, with
approval of the President, shall issue regulations for
carrying out this section.
``(g) Exception.--This section does not require
codification of the text of Presidential documents published
and periodically compiled in supplements to title 3 of the
Code of Federal Regulations.''.
(h) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--The table of
sections for chapter 15 of title 44, United States Code, is
amended by striking the items related to sections 1502, 1503,
and 1504 and inserting the following:
``1502. Custody and publishing of Federal documents; appointment of
Director.
``1503. Filing documents with Office; notation of time; public
inspection; transmission for publishing.
``1504. `Federal Register'; publishing; contents; distribution;
price.''.
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