Title: READ IT Resolution
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
Review Every Act Diligently In Total Resolution or the READ IT Resolution
Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the consideration of a bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference report unless its text has been publicly available in electronic form for a number of minutes equal to two times the number of its pages.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 862 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 862

  Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the 
   consideration of legislation in the House unless the text of the 
 legislation which will be considered has been made publicly available 
       in electronic form for a mandatory minimum review period.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 27, 2018

   Mr. Garrett (for himself, Mr. Polis, and Mr. Buck) submitted the 
   following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit the 
   consideration of legislation in the House unless the text of the 
 legislation which will be considered has been made publicly available 
       in electronic form for a mandatory minimum review period.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This resolution may be cited as the ``Review Every Act Diligently 
in Total Resolution'' or the ``READ IT Resolution''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING CONSIDERATION OF TEXT OF LEGISLATION UNTIL 
              COMPLETION OF MANDATORY MINIMUM REVIEW PERIOD.

    Rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by 
adding at the end the following new clause:
    ``13.(a) It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint 
resolution, resolution, or conference report unless the text of the 
bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference report which will be 
considered has been publicly available in electronic form for the 
mandatory minimum review period.
    ``(b) The application of paragraph (a) to a bill, joint resolution, 
resolution, or conference report may not be waived other than by a 
resolution approved by the House which consists solely of the following 
text: `That clause 13(a) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives shall not apply to _____', with the blank space filled 
in with the number of the bill, joint resolution, resolution, or 
conference report involved.
    ``(c) In this clause, the `mandatory minimum review period' with 
respect to a bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference report 
is the period--
            ``(1) which begins with the first hour beginning after the 
        text of the bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference 
        report which will be considered is first made publicly 
        available in electronic form; and
            ``(2) which consists of a number of minutes equal to two 
        times the number of pages of the text of the bill, joint 
        resolution, resolution, or conference report which will be 
        considered.''.
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