Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the House to meet 5 days a week for 39 weeks each year.

Bill: 115-hres-149
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-52]
Introduced: 2017-02-17
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional operations and organization

House of Representatives

Legislative rules and procedure
Latest action: action_date: 2017-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-02-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends Rule XIV (Order and Priority of Business) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require votes to be held in the House or in the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for five consecutive days each week, except during any recess or during any week in which there is a holiday (when the number of consecutive days on which votes shall be held is four).</p> <p>Limits to 13 the number of recess weeks during each calendar year.</p>

tv_txt: IV 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 149 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 17, 2017 Mr. Peters (for himself, Mr. Kilmer , Mr. O'Halleran , and Mr. Coffman ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules RESOLUTION Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require the House to meet 5 days a week for 39 weeks each year.

That (a) rule XIV of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new clause: 7. There shall be votes held in the House or in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for 5 consecutive days each week except— (a) during any recess there shall be no votes, except there shall be not more than 13 recess weeks during each calendar year; or (b) during any week in which there is a holiday, then votes shall be held on 4 days. . (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect with the first session of Congress beginning on the date of adoption of this resolution.