Title: PAPER Act of 2018
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
Preventing Additional Printing of Electronic Records Act of 2018 or the PAPER Act of 2018
This bill limits the printing of the Congressional Record and the calendars of the House of Representatives by requiring the offices that receive printed copies to request the copies.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6708 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6708

    To limit the printing of the Congressional Record and the House 
                   Calendars, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 5, 2018

  Mr. Higgins of Louisiana (for himself, Mr. Jones, Ms. Tenney, Mrs. 
  Wagner, and Mr. Graves of Louisiana) introduced the following bill; 
      which was referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
    To limit the printing of the Congressional Record and the House 
                   Calendars, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Preventing Additional Printing of 
Electronic Records Act of 2018'' or the ``PAPER Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON PRINTING OF CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.

    Section 906 of title 44, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows:
``Sec. 906. Congressional Record: gratuitous copies; delivery
    ``(a) In General.--The Director of the Government Publishing Office 
shall furnish the Congressional Record to an entity named in subsection 
(b) during a session of Congress only--
            ``(1) after the entity makes a request to receive copies 
        during that session; and
            ``(2) in accordance with the limitations described in 
        subsection (b).
    ``(b) Limitations on Copies.--After an entity makes a request under 
subsection (a)(1), the Director of the Government Publishing Office 
shall provide copies of the Congressional Record to the entity as 
follows:
            ``(1) Of the bound edition--
                    ``(A) to the Senate Service Department, not more 
                than 5 copies for the Vice President and each Senator;
                    ``(B) to the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms of the 
                Senate, each, not more than 2 copies;
                    ``(C) to the Joint Committee on Printing, not more 
                than 100 hundred copies;
                    ``(D) to the House of Representatives Publications 
                Distribution Service, not more than 3 copies for each 
                Representative, including each Delegate and Resident 
                Commissioner to the Congress; and
                    ``(E) to the Clerk and the Sergeant at Arms of the 
                House of Representatives, each, not more than 2 copies.
            ``(2) Of the daily edition--
                    ``(A) to the Vice President, not more than 100 
                hundred copies;
                    ``(B) to each Senator, not more than 50 copies 
                (which may be transferred only to public agencies and 
                institutions);
                    ``(C) to the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms of the 
                Senate, each, not more than 25 copies;
                    ``(D) to the Secretary, for official use, not more 
                than 35 copies;
                    ``(E) to the Sergeant at Arms for use on the floor 
                of the Senate, not more than 50 copies;
                    ``(F) to each Member of the House of 
                Representatives, including each Delegate and Resident 
                Commissioner to the Congress, not more than 34 copies 
                (which may be transferred only to public agencies and 
                institutions);
                    ``(G) to the Clerk and the Sergeant at Arms of the 
                House of Representatives, each, not more than 25 
                copies;
                    ``(H) to the Clerk, for official use, not more than 
                50 copies, and to the Clerk for use on the floor of the 
                House of Representatives, not more than 75 copies; and
                    ``(I) to the Vice President and each Senator, 
                Representative, and Resident Commissioner in Congress 
                (and not transferable), not more than 3 copies of which 
                1 may be delivered at his or her residence, 1 at his or 
                her office, and 1 at the Capitol.
            ``(3) In unstitched form, and held in reserve by the 
        Director of the Government Publishing Office, as many copies of 
        the daily Record as may be required to supply a semimonthly 
        edition, bound in paper cover together with each semimonthly 
        index when it is issued, and then delivered promptly upon 
        request as follows:
                    ``(A) To each committee and commission of Congress, 
                not more than 1 daily and 1 semimonthly copy.
                    ``(B) To each joint committee and joint commission 
                in Congress, as may be designated by the Joint 
                Committee on Printing, not more than 2 copies of the 
                daily, 1 semimonthly copy, and 1 bound copy.
                    ``(C) To the Secretary and the Sergeant at Arms of 
                the Senate, for office use, each, not more than 6 
                semimonthly copies.
                    ``(D) To the Clerk and the Sergeant at Arms of the 
                House, for office use, each, not more than 6 
                semimonthly copies.
                    ``(E) To the Joint Committee on Printing, not more 
                than 10 semimonthly copies.
                    ``(F) To the Vice President and each Senator, 
                Representative, and Resident Commissioner in Congress, 
                not more than 1 semimonthly copy.
                    ``(G) To the President of the United States, for 
                the use of the Executive Office, not more than 10 
                copies of the daily, 2 semimonthly copies, and 1 bound 
                copy.
                    ``(H) To the Chief Justice of the United States and 
                each of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of 
                the United States, not more than 1 copy of the daily.
                    ``(I) To the offices of the marshal and clerk of 
                the Supreme Court of the United States, each, not more 
                than 2 copies of the daily and 1 semimonthly copy.
                    ``(J) To each United States circuit and district 
                judge, and to the chief judge and each associate judge 
                of the United States Court of Federal Claims, the 
                United States Court of International Trade, the Tax 
                Court of the United States, the United States Court of 
                Appeals for Veterans Claims, and the United States 
                Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, upon request to 
                a member of Congress and notification by the Member to 
                the Director of the Government Publishing Office, not 
                more than 1 copy of the daily, in addition to those 
                authorized to be furnished to Members of Congress under 
                the preceding provisions of this section.
                    ``(K) To the offices of the Vice President and the 
                Speaker of the House of Representatives, each, not more 
                than 6 copies of the daily and 1 semimonthly copy.
                    ``(L) To the Sergeant at Arms, the Chaplain, the 
                Postmaster, the superintendent and the foreman of the 
                Senate Service Department and of the House of 
                Representatives Publications Distribution Service, 
                respectively; and to the Secretaries to the Majority 
                and the Minority of the Senate, each, not more than 1 
                copy of the daily.
                    ``(M) To the office of the Parliamentarian of the 
                House of Representatives, not more than 6 copies of the 
                daily, 1 semimonthly copy, and 2 bound copies.
                    ``(N) To the offices of the Official Reporters of 
                Debates of the Senate and House of Representatives, 
                respectively, each, not more than 15 copies of the 
                daily, 1 semimonthly copy, and 3 bound copies.
                    ``(O) To the office of the stenographers to 
                committees of the House of Representatives, not more 
                than 4 copies of the daily and 1 semimonthly copy.
                    ``(P) To the office of the Congressional Record 
                Index, not more than 10 copies of the daily and 2 
                semimonthly copies.
                    ``(Q) To the offices of the superintendent of the 
                Senate and House document rooms, each, not more than 3 
                copies of the daily, 1 semimonthly copy, and 1 bound 
                copy.
                    ``(R) To the offices of the superintendents of the 
                Senate and House press galleries, each, not more than 2 
                copies of the daily, 1 semimonthly copy, and 1 bound 
                copy.
                    ``(S) To the offices of the Legislative Counsel of 
                the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, 
                and the Architect of the Capitol, each, not more than 3 
                copies of the daily, 1 semimonthly copy, and 1 bound 
                copy.
                    ``(T) To the Library of Congress for official use 
                in Washington, District of Columbia, and for 
                international exchange, as provided by section 1718 and 
                1719 of this title, not more than 145 copies of the 
                daily, 5 semimonthly copies, and 150 bound copies.
                    ``(U) To the library of the Senate, not more than 3 
                copies of the daily, 2 semimonthly copies, and 15 bound 
                copies.
                    ``(V) To the library of the House of 
                Representatives, not more than 5 copies of the daily, 2 
                semimonthly copies, and 28 bound copies, of which 8 
                copies may be bound in the style and manner approved by 
                the Joint Committee on Printing.
                    ``(W) To the library of the Supreme Court of the 
                United States, not more than 2 copies of the daily, 2 
                semi-monthly copies, and 5 bound copies.
                    ``(X) To the library of each United States Court of 
                Appeals, each United States District Court, the United 
                States Court of Federal Claims, the United States Court 
                of International Trade, the United States Tax Court, 
                the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, 
                and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed 
                Forces, upon request to the Director of the Government 
                Publishing Office, not more than 1 copy of the daily, 1 
                semimonthly copy, and 1 bound copy.
                    ``(Y) To the Director of the Government Publishing 
                Office for official use, not more than 75 copies of the 
                daily, 10 semimonthly copies, and 2 bound copies.
                    ``(Z) To the Director of the Botanic Garden, not 
                more than 2 copies of the daily and 1 semimonthly copy.
                    ``(AA) To the Archivist of the United States, not 
                more than 5 copies of the daily, 2 semimonthly copies, 
                and 2 bound copies.
                    ``(BB) To the library of each executive department, 
                independent office, and establishment of the Government 
                in the District of Columbia, except those designated as 
                depository libraries, and to the libraries of the 
                municipal government of the District of Columbia, the 
                Naval Observatory, and the Smithsonian Institution, 
                each, not more than 2 copies of the daily, 1 
                semimonthly copy, and 1 bound copy.
                    ``(CC) To the offices of the Governors of Puerto 
                Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, American 
                Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
                Islands each, not more than 5 copies in both daily and 
                bound form.
                    ``(DD) To each ex-President and ex-Vice President 
                of the United States, not more than 1 copy of the 
                daily.
                    ``(EE) To each former Senator, Representative, and 
                Commissioner from Puerto Rico, upon request to the 
                Director of the Government Publishing Office, not more 
                than 1 copy of the daily.
                    ``(FF) To the Governor of each State, not more than 
                1 copy in both daily and bound form.
                    ``(GG) To each separate establishment of the Armed 
                Forces Retirement Home, to each of the National Homes 
                for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and to each of the 
                State soldiers' homes, not more than 1 copy of the 
                daily.
                    ``(HH) To the Department of State, not more than 
                150 copies of the daily, for distribution to each 
                United States embassy and legation abroad, and to the 
                principal consular offices in the discretion of the 
                Secretary of State.
                    ``(II) To each foreign legation in Washington whose 
                government extends a like courtesy to our embassies and 
                legations abroad, not more than 1 copy of the daily, to 
                be furnished upon requisition of and sent through the 
                Secretary of State.
                    ``(JJ) To each newspaper correspondent whose name 
                appears in the Congressional Directory, and who makes 
                application, for his or her personal use and that of 
                the papers he or she represents, not more than 1 copy 
                of the daily and 1 copy of the bound, the same to be 
                sent to the office address of the member of the press 
                or elsewhere as he or she directs, and not more than 4 
                copies in all may be furnished to members of the same 
                press bureau.
    ``(c) Daily Edition.--Copies of the daily edition, unless otherwise 
directed by the Joint Committee on Printing, shall be supplied and 
delivered promptly on the day after the actual day's proceedings as 
originally published. Each order for the daily Record shall begin with 
the current issue, if previous issues of the same session are not 
available. The apportionment specified for daily copies may not be 
transferred for the bound form.
    ``(d) Depository Libraries.--The Director of the Government 
Publishing Office shall furnish to the Superintendent of Documents as 
many daily and bound copies of the Congressional Record as may be 
required for distribution to depository libraries.''.

SEC. 3. OPT-IN TO RECEIVE HOUSE CALENDARS.

    The Clerk of the House of Representatives shall not provide printed 
copies of the calendars of the House to any office of the House unless 
requested by such office.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act, and the amendment made by this Act, shall take effect on 
the date that is 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
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