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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 84 

Amending the Standing Rules of the Senate to prohibit the consideration 

of legislation in the Senate unless the text of the legislation that will 

be considered has been made publicly available in electronic form for 

a mandatory minimum review period. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 1, 2021 

Mr. SCOTT of Florida (for himself, Ms. ERNST, Mr. HAWLEY, Mr. MARSHALL, 

and Mr. KENNEDY) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration 

RESOLUTION 

Amending the Standing Rules of the Senate to prohibit the 

consideration of legislation in the Senate unless the text 

of the legislation that will be considered has been made 

publicly available in electronic form for a mandatory 

minimum review period. 

1 Resolved, 

2 SECTION 1. PROHIBITING CONSIDERATION OF TEXT OF 

3 LEGISLATION UNTIL COMPLETION OF MAN4 DATORY MINIMUM REVIEW PERIOD. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Rule XII of the Standing Rules 

6 of the Senate is amended by adding at the end the fol7 lowing new paragraph: 


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1 ‘‘(5)(a) It shall not be in order to consider a 

2 bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference report 

3 unless the text of the bill, joint resolution, resolu4 tion, or conference report which will be considered 

5 has been publicly available in electronic form for the 

6 mandatory minimum review period. 

7 ‘‘(b) Each Senator shall self certify that the 

8 Senator has read a bill, joint resolution, resolution, 

9 or conference report before voting on the bill, joint 

10 resolution, resolution, or conference report. 

11 ‘‘(c) In this paragraph, the term ‘mandatory 

12 minimum review period’ means, with respect to a 

13 bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference report, 

14 the greater of— 

15 ‘‘(i) the period— 

16 ‘‘(I) that begins with the first hour 

17 beginning after the text of the bill, joint 

18 resolution, resolution, or conference report 

19 which will be considered is first made pub20 licly available in electronic form; and 

21 ‘‘(II) that consists of a number of 

22 minutes equal to two times the number of 

23 pages of the text of the bill, joint resolu24 tion, resolution, or conference report which 

25 will be considered; and 


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1 ‘‘(ii) 72 hours after the text of the bill, 

2 joint resolution, resolution, or conference report 

3 which will be considered is first made publicly 

4 available in electronic form.’’. 

5 (b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 

6 The Standing Rules of the Senate is amend7 ed— 

8 (1) in paragraph 1 of rule VIII, by inserting 

9 ‘‘the text of which has been available for the manda10 tory minimum review period, as defined in para11 graph 5 of rule XII, and’’ after ‘‘bills and resolu12 tions’’; 

13 (2) in rule XIV— 

14 (A) in paragraph 3, by striking ‘‘on that 

15 day’’ and inserting ‘‘before the expiration of the 

16 mandatory minimum review period, as defined 

17 in paragraph 5 of rule XII,’’; and 

18 (B) in paragraph 6, by striking ‘‘one day’’ 

19 and inserting ‘‘for the mandatory minimum re20 view period, as defined in paragraph 5 of rule 

21 XII,’’; 

22 (3) in paragraph 5 of rule XVII, by striking 

23 ‘‘two calendar days (excluding Sundays and legal 

24 holidays’’ and inserting ‘‘the mandatory minimum 


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1 review period, as defined in paragraph 5 of rule 

2 XII,’’; and 

3 (4) in paragraph 5 of rule XXVIII, by striking 

4 ‘‘shall be immediately put’’ and inserting ‘‘shall be 

5 put after the expiration of the mandatory minimum 

6 review period, as defined in paragraph 5 of rule 

7 XII’’. 

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