SEC. 6. STAFF OF COMMISSION. 
The Commission may appoint and fix the compensa-
tion of a Staff Director and such other staff as the Com-
mission considers necessary to perform its duties. The 
Staff Director shall be appointed jointly by the Speaker 
and minority leader and shall be paid at a rate not to 
exceed the rate of basic pay payable for Level III of the 
Executive Schedule. 
SEC. 7. ACTION ON COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS. 
(a) PRINTING
OF REPORTS
IN CONGRESSIONAL 
RECORD.—Upon receipt by the Committee on Standards 
of Official Conduct of the House of Representatives of any 
report of the Commission, the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives shall have the report printed in the Con-
gressional Record. 
(b) HOUSE CONSIDERATION OF INDEPENDENT ETH-
ICS COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS.—Within 14 cal-
endar days after a report referred to in subsection (a) is 
printed in the Congressional Record, that portion of the 
report recommending action by the House of Representa-
tives respecting any alleged violation, by a Member, offi-
cer, or employee of the House of Representatives, of any 
law, rule, regulation, or other standard of conduct applica-
ble to the conduct of such Member, officer, or employee 
in the performance of his duties or the discharge of his 
responsibilities shall be introduced (by request) in the 
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House by the Speaker of the House, for himself and the 
minority leader of the House in the form of a resolution. 
This resolution shall constitute a question of privilege 
under rule IX of the Rules of the House of Representa-
tives. Any Member favoring the resolution may call it up 
as a question of privilege but only on the third day after 
the calendar date upon which such Member announces to 
the House his intention to do so. 
SEC. 8. AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES OF THE HOUSE TO 
CHANGE THE DUTIES OF THE COMMITTEE ON 
STANDARDS OF OFFICIAL CONDUCT. 
(a) HOUSE RULES AMENDMENTS.—Clause 3 of rule 
XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amend-
ed as follows: 
(1) In paragraph (a), strike subparagraphs (1), 
(2), and (3), and redesignate subparagraphs (4), 
(5), and (6), as subparagraphs (1), (2), and (3), re-
spectively. 
(2)(A) Paragraph (b)(1) is amended by striking 
‘‘(A)’’, by striking ‘‘a resolution, report, rec-
ommendation, or’’ and inserting ‘‘an’’, and by strik-
ing ‘‘, or, except as provided in subparagraph (2), 
undertake an investigation’’, and by striking subdivi-
sion (B). 
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(B) Paragraph (b) is further amended by strik-
ing subparagraphs (2), (3), (4), and (5) and by re-
designating subparagraphs (6) and (7) as subpara-
graphs (2) and (3), respectively. 
(3) Strike paragraphs (j) (k), (l), (m), (n), (o), 
(p), and (q). 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 803 of the 
Ethics Reform Act of 1989 (2 U.S.C. 29d) is amended 
by striking subsections (c) and (d). 
SEC. 9. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
This Act shall take effect immediately before noon 
January 3, 2009. 
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