Title: A resolution amending the Rules of Procedure and Practice in the Senate When Sitting on Impeachment Trials.
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
This resolution amends Rule I of the Rules of Procedure and Practice in the Senate When Sitting on Impeachment Trials.
Specifically, the resolution requires the House of Representatives to notify or otherwise provide to the Senate the adopted articles of impeachment within 25 calendar days from their adoption. Such articles shall be deemed presented to the Senate if this requirement is not met. Furthermore, it shall be in order for any Senator to offer a motion (required to be adopted) to dismiss the articles with prejudice.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 463 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 463

Amending the Rules of Procedure and Practice in the Senate When Sitting 
                         on Impeachment Trials.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 6, 2020

    Mr. Hawley (for himself, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Braun, Mrs. 
 Blackburn, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Daines, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Cotton, Ms. Ernst, 
 Mr. Perdue, and Mr. Inhofe) submitted the following resolution; which 
       was referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Amending the Rules of Procedure and Practice in the Senate When Sitting 
                         on Impeachment Trials.

    Resolved, That rule I of the Rules of Procedure and Practice in the 
Senate When Sitting on Impeachment Trials is amended to read as 
follows:
            ``I. Whensoever the Senate shall receive notice from the 
        House of Representatives that managers are appointed on their 
        part to conduct an impeachment against any person and are 
        directed to carry articles of impeachment to the Senate, the 
        Secretary of the Senate shall immediately inform the House of 
        Representatives that the Senate is ready to receive the 
        managers for the purpose of exhibiting such articles of 
        impeachment, agreeably to such notice. If, following adoption 
        of such articles, the House of Representatives does not so 
        notify the Senate or otherwise provide for such articles to be 
        exhibited to the Senate within 25 calendar days from the date 
        of adoption of such articles, as recorded in the Journal of the 
        House of Representatives, such articles shall be deemed 
        exhibited before the Senate and it shall be in order for any 
        Senator to offer a motion to dismiss such articles with 
        prejudice for failure by the House of Representatives to 
        prosecute such articles. Such motion shall be adopted by an 
        affirmative vote of a majority of the Senators, duly chosen and 
        sworn, without debate by the yeas and nays, which shall be 
        entered on the record.''.
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