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SEC. 15. EXCLUSIVITY OF PROCEDURES AND REMEDIES.
The procedures and remedies under rule LII of the
Rules of the House of Representatives are exclusive except to
the extent that the Rules of the House of Representatives
and the rules of the Committee on Standards of Official Con-
duct provide for additional procedures and remedies.
SEC. 16. STUDY.
(a) The Office shall conduct a study—
(1) of the ways that access by the public to infor-
mation held by the House of Representatives may be im-
proved and streamlined, and of the application of section
552 of title 5, United States Code to the House of Rep-
resentatives; and
(2) of the application of the requirement of section
552a of title 5, United States Code, to the House of
Representatives.
(b) The study conducted under subsection (a) shall ex-
amine—
(1) information that is currently made available
under such section 552 by Federal agencies and not by
the House of Representatives;
(2) information held by the nonlegislative offices of
the House of Representatives, including—
(A) the Director of Non-legislative and Finan-
cial Services,
(B) the Clerk,
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(C) the Inspector General,
(D) the Sergeant at Arms,
(E) the Doorkeeper,
(F) the United States Capitol Police, and
(G) the House Commission on Congressional
Mailing Standards;
(3) financial expenditure information of the House
of Representatives; and
(4) provisions for judicial review of denial of access
to information held by the House of Representatives.
(c) The Office shall conduct the study prescribed by sub-
section (a) and report the results of the study to the House
of Representatives not later than one year after the date of
the initial appointment of the Board of Directors.
SEC. 17. EFFECTIVE DATE AND TRANSITION RULES.
(a) The amendments made by section 1 shall take effect
on November 1, 1994.
(b) Effective at the beginning of the second session of
the One Hundred Fourth Congress, rule LI of the Rules of
the House of Representatives is repealed and rule LII of such
Rules is redesignated as rule LI and all references to rule LII
in sections 2 through 16 of this resolution are deemed to be
references to rule LI of such Rules.
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (b), until the beginning
of the second session of the One Hundred Fourth Congress,
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the functions under rule LI of the Rules of the House of
Representatives that are the responsibility of the Office of
Fair Employment Practices shall continue to be the respon-
sibility of that Office.
(d) Any formal complaint filed under rule LI of the
Rules of the House of Representatives before the close of the
first session of the One Hundred Fourth Congress which has
not been finally disposed of shall be transferred to the Office
of Compliance for completion of all pending proceedings relat-
ing to that complaint. The Office of Compliance may make
regulations to provide for the orderly transfer and disposition
of such complaints.
(e) In appointing staff under section 4(b), the executive
director should give full consideration to employees of the Of-
fice of Fair Employment Practices.
(f) Sections 1 through 16 and subsections (a) through
(e) of this section shall have no force or effect upon the en-
actment by the One Hundred Third Congress of the Congres-
sional Accountability Act, whether by enactment of the bill
H.R. 4822, by incorporation of the text of that bill in another
measure, or otherwise.
SEC. 18. The chairman and ranking minority member of
the Committee on House Administration, acting jointly, shall
study and report recommendations to the Speaker and minor-
ity leader, no later than January 3, 1995, for changes in
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House Rule LII to be adopted by the House to reconcile such
rule with the existing jurisdiction of the Committee on House
Administration.
SEC. 19. The General Counsel of the House shall con-
duct a study to be submitted to the Speaker, minority leader,
and the chairman and ranking minority members of the Com-
mittees on House Administration and Rules no later than
January 3, 1995, on further changes in House rules to pro-
vide to employees of the House (as defined in section 2) the
ability to bring civil action in Federal district court against
an employing authority (as defined in section 2) for an al-
leged violation under Federal law to the extent that such vio-
lation relates to the terms and conditions of employment,
until the statutory provisions contained in H.R. 4822, as
passed by the House, are enacted.
Attest:
Clerk.