Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the text of any legislation that will be marked up at a meeting for the markup of legislation by a committee to be publicly available in electronic form at least 72 hours prior to the commencement of the meeting.

Bill: 115-hres-183
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. O'Halleran, Tom [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2017-03-08
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: House of Representatives

Legislative rules and procedure
Latest action: action_date: 2017-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-03-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends Rule XI (Procedures of Committees and Unfinished Business) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the text of any legislation that will be marked up at a committee meeting to be publicly available in electronic form at least 72 (currently, 24) hours before the commencement of the meeting.</p>

tv_txt: IV 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 183 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 8, 2017 Mr. O'Halleran (for himself, Mr. Evans , Mr. McGovern , and Mr. Soto ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules RESOLUTION Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the text of any legislation that will be marked up at a meeting for the markup of legislation by a committee to be publicly available in electronic form at least 72 hours prior to the commencement of the meeting.

1. Requiring text of legislation to be available at least 72 hours prior to markup Clause 2(g)(4) of rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by striking 24 hours each place it appears and inserting 72 hours .