SEC. 7. LIMIT ON REDISTRICTING AFTER AN APPORTION-
MENT OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
The Act entitled ‘‘An Act for the relief of Doctor Ri-
cardo Vallejo Samala and to provide for congressional re-
districting’’, approved December 14, 1967 (2 U.S.C. 2c), 
is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘A State 
that has been redistricted in the manner provided by the 
law thereof after an apportionment under section 22(a) 
of the Act entitled ‘An Act to provide for the fifteenth 
and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for an 
apportionment of Representatives in Congress’, approved 
June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a), may not be so redistricted 
until after the next apportionment of Representatives 
under such section 22(a), unless the State is ordered by 
a Federal court to conduct such subsequent redistricting 
in order to comply with the Constitution of the United 
States or to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 
U.S.C. 1973 et seq.).’’. 
SEC. 8. AVAILABILITY OF LEGISLATION ON THE INTERNET. 
Clause 6(c) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House 
of Representatives is amended by striking the period at 
the end of subparagraph (2) and inserting a semicolon and 
by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(3) a rule or order eliminating the reading in 
full of any bill, resolution, conference report, or 
amendment unless such measure is available to all
Members and made available to the general public 
by means of the Internet for at least 24 hours before 
its consideration.’’. 
SEC. 9. BRIBERY PROHIBITED ON HOUSE FLOOR. 
The Congress hereby reiterates that the bribery of a 
Member of Congress on the floor of the House of Rep-
resentatives or the Senate is a violation of section 201 
(bribery of public officials and witnesses) of title 18, 
United States Code, and should be prosecuted whenever 
it occurs. 
SEC. 10. HACKING INTO OTHER MEMBERS’ COMPUTER 
FILES PROHIBITED. 
Congress hereby reiterates that accessing a computer 
of a Member of Congress without authorization or exceed-
ing authorized access is a violation of section 1030 (fraud 
and related activity in connection with computers) of title 
18, United States Code, and should be prosecuted when-
ever it occurs. 
SEC. 11. CAP ON MAILING EXPENSES OF COMMITTEES. 
Rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives 
is amended by adding at the end the following new clause: 
‘‘12. No Committee may expend more than $25,000 
for mailing expenses during a session of Congress.’’.
SEC. 12. REQUIRING AT LEAST ONE-THIRD OF COMMITTEE 
BUDGET TO BE PROVIDED TO MINORITY. 
Rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives, 
as amended by section 11, is further amended by adding 
at the end the following new clause: 
‘‘13. Of the total amounts provided to any Committee 
for its expenses (including expenses for staff) during a ses-
sion of Congress, 1⁄3 of such amount, or such greater per-
centage as may be agreed to by the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee, shall be expended at 
the direction of the ranking minority member.’’. 
SEC. 13. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS. 
The provisions of this Act are enacted by the Con-
gress—
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate, re-
spectively, and as such they shall be considered as 
part of the rules of each House, respectively, or of 
that House to which they specifically apply, and 
such rules shall supersede other rules only to the ex-
tent that they are inconsistent therewith; and 
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 
right of either House to change such rules (so far 
as relating to such House) at any time, in the same
manner, and to the same extent as in the case of 
any other rule of such House.
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