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TITLE III—MODERNIZING AND 
REVITALIZING TECHNOLOGY 
SEC. 301. REFORMING HOUSE INFORMATION RESOURCES. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the adoption of this resolution, the Chief Administra-
tive Officer shall submit a report to the Committee on House 
Administration on the operations of the Office of House In-
formation Resources. Such report shall include— 
(1) the identification of solutions to address the 
challenges HIR faces in balancing the needs between 
network security and making available emerging tech-
nologies in a timely manner to satisfy the operational 
needs of Member offices, including a detailed marketing 
and communications plan to address gaps and disrup-
tions that exist in the seamless delivery of services be-
tween HIR and the offices it supports; 
(2) recommendations to improve the quality of HIR 
services, such as web design and information technology 
support; 
(3) recommendations for changes to HIR’s mission 
to better align it with the needs of Member offices; 
(4) methods to reduce duplicative spending on infor-
mation technology services; and 
(5) the identification of steps and actions necessary 
to ensure that HIR establishes a single point-of-contact
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within HIR for each office of the House so that such 
point-of-contact is responsible for responding to requests 
from the office and coordinating the delivery of products 
and services to the office, as well as an analysis of the 
advantages and disadvantages of the use of a single 
point-of-contact for such purposes. 
(b) CONDUCTING OUTSIDE REVIEW.—The Committee on 
House Administration may direct the Chief Administrative 
Officer to enter into a contract with an outside entity to pro-
vide the Committee with an independent review of the oper-
ations of HIR and to provide independent recommendations 
to the Committee regarding strategies and steps for reform-
ing HIR’s operations. 
(c) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Adminis-
tration may issue regulations or take any other steps as may 
be required to address the report submitted by the Chief Ad-
ministrative Officer under subsection (a) and, if applicable, 
the recommendations provided by an outside entity pursuant 
to the contract entered into under subsection (b). 
SEC. 302. PROVIDING TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE CON-
STITUENT ENGAGEMENT. 
The Committee on House Administration may issue reg-
ulations or take any other steps as may be required to ensure 
that Member offices have the necessary technology and soft-
ware to improve the efficiency and operation of Member of-
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fices and to improve constituent engagement, including, as 
soon as practicable after the date of the adoption of this reso-
lution, the implementation of the following: 
(1) The ability of House offices to conduct video 
calls and video conferences. 
(2) The ability of Members to sign legislation, cor-
respondence, and constituent consent forms using elec-
tronic signatures, in accordance with guidance developed 
in coordination with the Clerk of the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
(3) The ability of Members and employees to se-
curely and seamlessly access the House Network from 
any place and at any time. 
(4) A plan and timetable to improve the correspond-
ence management tools available to Member offices, in-
cluding improving the ability of the constituents of a 
Member to upload requests for casework directly to the 
Member’s official public website. 
SEC. 303. STREAMLINED APPROVAL PROCESS FOR OUTSIDE 
TECHNOLOGY VENDORS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the adoption of this resolution, HIR shall submit a 
report to the Committee on House Administration describing 
the steps necessary to create a streamlined process for the 
approval of outside technology, including a discussion of
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unique legal, statutory, or other considerations relating to the 
House environment, costs, obstacles to creating and operating 
such an approval process, and security or other issues relat-
ing to such a process. 
(b) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Adminis-
tration may issue regulations to carry out any recommenda-
tions made in the report required under subsection (a) or 
take any other steps as may be required to carry out this sec-
tion. 
SEC. 304. ENABLING EARLY ADOPTION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES 
AND APPLICATIONS BY OFFICES. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later that 120 days after the 
date of the adoption of this resolution, HIR shall submit a 
report to the Committee on House Administration on estab-
lishing a program under which Member, committee, and lead-
ership offices may elect to participate in the early adoption 
of technologies or applications developed by an outside vendor 
prior to the final approval by the House of the use of such 
technology or application for such offices, and shall include 
in the report a description of the steps necessary to set up 
such a program, the operation of such program, the identi-
fication of additional costs that may be incurred by such a 
program, and the identification of the steps necessary to en-
sure security and steps necessary to protect against jeopard-
izing the House enterprise.
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(b) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Adminis-
tration may issue regulations to carry out any recommenda-
tions made in the report required under subsection (a) or 
take any other steps as may be required to carry out this sec-
tion. 
SEC. 305. IMPROVING MEMBER FEEDBACK REGARDING OUT-
SIDE VENDORS AND HIR SERVICES. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the adoption of this resolution, HIR shall submit a 
report to the Committee on House Administration on the 
steps necessary to— 
(1) in compliance with applicable Rules of the 
House of Representatives and other regulations and 
standards of the House, create an internal customer sat-
isfaction portal on HouseNet that allows Members and 
employees to rate and review outside vendors and HIR 
services; 
(2) annually survey district-level staff and district- 
specific technology concerns; and 
(3) survey Members and employees on what tech-
nologies they would like to use. 
(b) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Adminis-
tration may issue regulations to carry out any recommenda-
tions made in the report required under subsection (a) or
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take any other steps as may be required to carry out this sec-
tion. 
SEC. 306. LEVERAGING BULK PURCHASING POWER OF THE 
HOUSE. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the adoption of this resolution, the Chief Administra-
tive Officer shall submit a report to the Committee on House 
Administration on the steps necessary to provide a standard 
suite of information technology (as described in subsection 
(b)) for the use of offices of Members of the House, including 
various packages and options, and shall include in the report 
an analysis of alternative methods for funding the purchase 
of such a suite, including increasing the Members’ Represen-
tational Allowances or creating additional accounts. The re-
port shall also include a detailed marketing and communica-
tions plan, including strategies to disseminate information re-
garding the standard suite to Member offices. 
(b) CONTENTS
OF STANDARD SUITE.—The standard 
suite of information technology described in this subsection 
consists of the following, in such quantity and with such fea-
tures as the Chief Administrative Officer determines to be 
appropriate to enable offices of Members of the House to 
quickly and effectively carry out their operations in a cost- 
effective manner:
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SEC. 308. ESTABLISHING NONPARTISAN CONSTITUENT EN-
GAGEMENT AND SERVICES PAGE ON HOUSENET. 
The Committee on House Administration may issue reg-
ulations, or take any other steps as may be required, to es-
tablish a nonpartisan constituent engagement and services 
page on HouseNet which will better disseminate best prac-
tices and ideas regarding ways to optimize and improve con-
stituent engagement and service. 
TITLE IV—MAKING THE HOUSE 
ACCESSIBLE TO ALL 
SEC. 401. ENSURING ACCESSIBILITY OF HOUSE WEBSITES. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the adoption of this resolution, the Chief Administra-
tive Officer shall submit a report to the Committee on House 
Administration detailing a plan to ensure that all House 
websites and applications are accessible. Such report shall in-
clude— 
(1) a schedule for analyzing all House websites and 
applications to determine the accessibility level of each 
such website and application; 
(2) an analysis of the resources and assistance nec-
essary to ensure all relevant systems are compatible with 
common programs used by major disability groups; and 
(3) a plan to ensure that all updates to such 
websites and applications, as well as new websites and 
applications, are accessible.
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(b) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Adminis-
tration may issue regulations to carry out any recommenda-
tions made in the report required under subsection (a) or 
take any other steps as may be required to carry out this sec-
tion. 
SEC. 402. CLOSE CAPTIONING OF PROCEEDINGS; CAPTIONING 
SERVICE FOR VIDEOS CREATED BY HOUSE OF-
FICES. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the adoption of this resolution, the Chief Administra-
tive Officer and the Clerk shall submit a report to the Com-
mittee on House Administration detailing a plan to ensure 
that all House proceedings that are broadcast on television or 
streamed on the Internet provide closed caption services, and 
provide a free captioning service for all web videos created by 
Member, committee, and leadership offices, as well as the Of-
fice of the Chief Administrative Officer and the Office of the 
Clerk. Such report shall include— 
(1) a statement of the estimated costs of providing 
close captioning services for all such proceedings; 
(2) a statement of the estimated costs of providing 
captioning service for all such web videos; 
(3) an estimated timeline for carrying out the plan; 
and
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(4) a discussion of any barriers to carrying out the 
plan, including statutory or regulatory impediments. 
(b) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Adminis-
tration may issue regulations to carry out any recommenda-
tions made in the report required under subsection (a) or 
take any other steps as may be required to carry out this sec-
tion. 
SEC. 403. COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF ACCESSIBILITY. 
(a) REPORT
ON ACCESSIBILITY
OF UNITED STATES 
CAPITOL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of the adoption of this resolution, the Ar-
chitect of the Capitol, the Sergeant at Arms of the House of 
Representatives, and the Executive Director of the Office of 
Congressional Workplace Rights, shall provide a joint report 
to the Committee on House Administration identifying areas 
of the Capitol buildings and the United States Capitol 
Grounds that are not currently accessible, the estimated costs 
of making such areas accessible, including a timetable and 
plan for making accessibility modifications, and a discussion 
of future challenges to ensuring full accessibility. 
(b) REPORT
ON ACCESSIBILITY
OF PRACTICES
AND 
PROGRAMMING.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the adoption of this resolution, the Chief Administrative Offi-
cer, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Con-
gressional Accessibility Services and the Librarian of Con-
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gress, shall submit a report to the Committee on House Ad-
ministration evaluating the accessibility of the practices and 
programming used by offices of the legislative branch to serve 
the needs of individuals with disabilities. 
(c) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Adminis-
tration may issue regulations to carry out any recommenda-
tions made in the report required under subsection (a) or 
take any other steps as may be required to carry out this sec-
tion. 
TITLE V—IMPROVING ACCESS TO 
DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS 
SEC. 501. ADOPTING STANDARDIZED FORMAT FOR LEGISLA-
TIVE DOCUMENTS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 60 days after the 
date of the adoption of this resolution, the Clerk shall submit 
a report to the Committee on House Administration regard-
ing the status of the overall implementation and adoption of 
a standardized format for drafting, viewing, and publishing 
legislation to improve transparency and efficiency throughout 
the lawmaking process, specifically including the status of the 
overall implementation of the Extensible Markup Language, 
or XML, schema known as United States Legislative Mark-
up. 
(b) INITIAL REPORT.—The report required under sub-
section (a) shall include a detailed plan for completing the
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overall implementation and adoption of the format described 
in such subsection, including a timeline, a statement of the 
costs incurred as of the date of such report, and a statement 
of the expected costs anticipated to be incurred in the future. 
(c) QUARTERLY REPORTS.—Not later than 15 days 
after the last day of each calendar quarter that begins after 
the submission of the report under subsection (a), the Clerk 
shall submit to the Committee on House Administration a 
status report on the progress made during that quarter re-
garding the overall implementation and adoption of the for-
mat described in such subsection, including any updates to 
the timeline and to the costs incurred during that quarter 
and expected to be incurred in the future, and a detailed ac-
count of actions taken to implement and adopt the format 
during the quarter covered by the report. 
(d) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Adminis-
tration may issue regulations to carry out any recommenda-
tions made in the report required under subsection (a) or 
take any other steps as may be required to carry out this sec-
tion. 
SEC. 502. LEGISLATION COMPARISON PROJECT. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the adoption of this resolution, the Clerk shall submit 
a report to the Committee on House Administration regard-
ing the status of the completion of the legislative comparison
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project required by clause 12 of rule XXI of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives. 
(b) INITIAL REPORT.—The report required in under 
subsection (a) shall include a detailed plan for completing the 
legislative comparison project, including a timeline, a state-
ment of the costs incurred as of the date of the report, and 
a statement of the expected costs anticipated to be incurred 
in the future. 
(c) QUARTERLY REPORTS.—Not later than 15 days 
after the last day of each calendar quarter that begins after 
the submission of the report under subsection (a), the Clerk 
shall submit to the Committee on House Administration a 
status report on the progress made during that quarter re-
garding the completion of the legislative comparison project, 
including any updates to the timeline and to the costs in-
curred during that quarter and expected to be incurred in the 
future, and a detailed account of actions taken to complete 
the legislative comparison project during the quarter covered 
by the report. 
(d) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Adminis-
tration may issue regulations to carry out any recommenda-
tions made in the report required under subsection (a) or 
take any other steps as may be required to carry out this sec-
tion.
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SEC. 503. DATABASE OF INFORMATION ON EXPIRATION OF AU-
THORIZATIONS OF PROGRAMS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 120 days after the 
date of the adoption of this resolution, the Clerk shall submit 
a report to the Committee on House Administration regard-
ing the establishment and maintenance, on its public website, 
of an up-to-date database that is searchable, sortable, and 
downloadable of the expiration dates of all Federal programs 
and the primary committee of subject matter jurisdiction over 
each such program. 
(b) INITIAL REPORT.—The report required under sub-
section (a) shall include a detailed plan for the completion 
and implementation of such database, including a timeline 
and a statement of ongoing and expected costs of develop-
ment and implementation, any necessary legal or legislative 
authorities, as well as any barriers or difficulties identified 
regarding the completion and operation of the database. Such 
report shall also include a discussion and recommendations 
on ensuring that such database— 
(1) is updated on a continual and ongoing basis, in-
cluding requiring that the Clerk posts all relevant all in-
formation not later than 30 days after receipt; and 
(2) includes information provided by standing and 
select committees (except the Committee on Appropria-
tions, the Committee on Ethics, the Committee on Rules, 
and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence), as
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well as recommendations to ensure that such committees 
provide the required information on a timely and regular 
basis. 
(c) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Not later than 15 days after 
the last day of each calendar year that begins after the sub-
mission of the report under subsection (a), the Clerk shall 
submit to the Committee on House Administration a report 
regarding the progress made regarding the establishment and 
maintenance of the database described in such subsection, in-
cluding any updates to the timeline and to the costs incurred 
or expected to be incurred (as required under subsection (b)), 
and a detailed account of actions taken to establish and 
maintain the database during the year covered by the report. 
(d) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Adminis-
tration may issue regulations to carry out any recommenda-
tions made in the report required under subsection (a) or 
take any other steps as may be required to carry out this sec-
tion. 
SEC. 504. DATABASE OF VOTES TAKEN IN COMMITTEES. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 120 days after the 
date of the adoption of this resolution, the Clerk shall submit 
a report to the Committee on House Administration regard-
ing the establishment and maintenance, on its public website, 
of a separate database for the 116th Congress and each sub-
sequent Congress of all recorded votes in committees (except
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for recorded votes taken by any committee in executive ses-
sion or recorded votes which, under applicable rules of the 
committee, are not required to be made publicly available) 
that is sortable, up-to-date, and downloadable. 
(b) INITIAL REPORT.—The report required under sub-
section (a) shall include a detailed plan for completion and 
implementation of the database described in such subsection, 
including a timeline and a statement of the ongoing and ex-
pected costs of development and implementation, any nec-
essary legal or legislative authorities, as well as any barriers 
or difficulties identified regarding the completion and oper-
ation of the database. Such report shall also include a discus-
sion and recommendations on ensuring that such database— 
(1) is updated on a continual and ongoing basis; 
and 
(2) requires each standing and select committee to 
provide to the Clerk with information respecting re-
corded votes taken in that committee (excluding votes 
which are not required to be included in the database) 
within 72 hours of such vote, to include a brief descrip-
tion of the matter on which the recorded vote was taken, 
the name of each Member of the committee voting on 
that matter, whether the vote was in the affirmative or 
the negative, and the total tally of the votes.
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(c) QUARTERLY REPORTS.—Not later than 15 days 
after the last day of each calendar quarter that begins after 
the submission of the report under subsection (a), the Clerk 
shall submit to the Committee on House Administration a re-
port regarding the progress made regarding the establish-
ment and maintenance of the database described in such sub-
section, including any updates to the detailed timeline and to 
the costs incurred or expected to be incurred (as required 
under subsection (b)), and a detailed account of actions taken 
to establish and maintain the database during for the quarter 
covered by the report. 
(d) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Adminis-
tration may issue regulations to carry out any recommenda-
tions made in the report required under subsection (a) or 
take any other steps as may be required to carry out this sec-
tion. 
SEC. 505. ASSIGNMENT OF UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS FOR REPORTS 
FILED BY REGISTERED LOBBYISTS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 60 days after the 
date of the adoption of this resolution, the Clerk shall submit 
a report to the Committee on House Administration regard-
ing the status of assigning a unique identification number 
with respect to each person who files a registration statement 
or other report required to be filed with the Clerk under the 
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), to
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be used for all purposes under such Act (including the public 
availability of such statements and reports) with respect to 
each statement or report required to be filed by that person 
with the Clerk. 
(b) INITIAL REPORT.—The report required under sub-
section (a) shall include a detailed plan for assigning the 
unique identification numbers described in such subsection, 
including a timeline, a statement of the ongoing and expected 
costs of carrying out such plan, and a description of any ob-
stacles to carrying out the plan (including obstacles relating 
to the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 or other laws). 
(c) QUARTERLY REPORTS.—Not later than 15 days 
after the last day of each calendar quarter that begins after 
the submission of the report under subsection (a), the Clerk 
shall submit to the Committee on House Administration a re-
port regarding the progress made regarding the overall imple-
mentation of the assignment of the unique identification 
numbers described in such subsection, including any updates 
to the timeline and to the costs incurred or expected to be 
incurred as required under subsection (b) and a detailed ac-
count of actions taken to carry out the assignment of such 
unique identification numbers during for the quarter covered 
by the report. 
(d) REGULATIONS.—The Committee on House Adminis-
tration may issue regulations to carry out any recommenda-