READ IT Resolution

Bill: 115-hres-801
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Garrett, Thomas A., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2018-03-22
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional operations and organization

Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

House of Representatives
Latest action: action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-03-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Review Every Act Diligently In Total Resolution or the READ IT Resolution</b></p> <p>Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order to consider 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.</p>

tv_txt: IV 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 801 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 22, 2018 Mr. Garrett submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules 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.

1. Short title This resolution may be cited as the Review Every Act Diligently In Total Resolution or the READ IT Resolution . 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) 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. .