Title: PAGE Act
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
Promoting American Government Education Act or the PAGE Act
This bill requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives to resume the operation of the Page Program in the House. In addition, the bill revises the membership of the Page Board to include a new position for an individual who has expertise in representing the legal interests of minors (i.e., a guardian ad litem) and to waive the requirement for the board member who is a parent of a page to be the parent of a page who participated in the program within the past five years.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2434 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2434

     To resume the operation of the page program for the House of 
                            Representatives.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2019

   Mr. Rush introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
     To resume the operation of the page program for the House of 
                            Representatives.

    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 ``Promoting American Government 
Education Act'' or the ``PAGE Act''.

SEC. 2. RESUMPTION OF OPERATION OF PAGE PROGRAM FOR HOUSE OF 
              REPRESENTATIVES.

    (a) Resumption of Program.--Effective beginning with the first 
semester of the first academic year which begins after the appointment 
of members of the House of Representatives Page Board under subsection 
(c), the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall provide for the 
resumption of the operation of the page program for the House of 
Representatives which was in operation during the One Hundred Tenth 
Congress.
    (b) Appointment of Member of House of Representatives Page Board To 
Represent Interests of Pages.--
            (1) In general.--Section 2(a) of House Resolution 611, 
        Ninety-seventh Congress, agreed to November 30, 1982, as 
        enacted into permanent law by section 127 of Public Law 97-377 
        (2 U.S.C. 4912(a)), is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph 
                (3);
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph 
                (5); and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following 
                new paragraph:
            ``(4) one individual who has expertise in representing the 
        legal interests of minors, such as by serving as a guardian ad 
        litem; and''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 2(b) of such Resolution 
        (2 U.S.C. 4912(b)) is amended by striking ``paragraphs (2) and 
        (3)'' and inserting ``paragraphs (2), (3), and (4)''.
    (c) Process for Appointment of Members of Page Board.--
            (1) Deadline for appointment.--Not later than 90 days after 
        the date of the enactment of this Act, the Speaker and the 
        Minority Leader of the House shall appoint members of the House 
        of Representatives Page Board under section 2 of House 
        Resolution 611, Ninety-seventh Congress, agreed to November 30, 
        1982, as enacted into permanent law by section 127 of Public 
        Law 97-377 (2 U.S.C. 4912).
            (2) Special rule for appointment of member who was parent 
        of a page.--Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of section 2(a) of 
        the House Resolution referred to in paragraph (1) (2 U.S.C. 
        4912(a)), the Speaker and the Minority Leader may appoint as a 
        member of the House of Representatives Page Board under such 
        paragraph an individual who, at any time prior to the 
        individual's appointment, was a parent of a page participating 
        in the page program of the House of Representatives.
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