48-Hour Bill Review Resolution

Bill: 116-hres-1086
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2020-08-18
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Digital media

House of Representatives

Legislative rules and procedure
Latest action: action_date: 2020-08-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-08-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>48-Hour Bill Review Resolution</b></p> <p>This resolution prohibits consideration of a bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference report in the House of Representatives unless its text has been publicly available in electronic form for 48 hours.</p>

tv_txt: IV 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 1086 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 18, 2020 Mr. Cline (for himself and Mr. Phillips ) 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 48-Hour Bill Review 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 to be considered of the bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference report has been publicly available in electronic form for the mandatory minimum review period. (b) The application of paragraph (a) to a bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference report may not be waived other than by a resolution approved by the House which consists solely of the following text: That clause 13(a) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives shall not apply to _____ , with the blank space filled in with the number of the bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference report involved. (c) In this clause, the mandatory minimum review period with respect to a bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference report is the 48-hour period which begins when the text to be considered of the bill, joint resolution, resolution, or conference report is first made publicly available in electronic form. .