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Enrollment of Legislation: Relevant Congressional Procedures - EveryCRSReport.com
May 7, 2008 – May 18, 2017 RL34480
Updated May 18, 2017 (RL34480)
Section 106 of Title 1 of the U.S. Code requires the signature of each chamber's presiding officer on each enrolled bill. Since 1981, the Speaker of the House is authorized to sign enrolled bills at any time, whether the House is in session or not (House Rule I, clause 4). A Speaker pro tempore elected by the House may also signed enrolled bills (Asher C. Hinds, Hinds' Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States [Washington: GPO, 1907-1908], II, §1401), and the Speaker may designate a Member to act in only this capacity for a limited time, subject to House approval (House Rule I, clause 8(b)(2)). Senate Rule 1, paragraph 3, permits the signing of enrolled bills for a limited time by another Senator appointed (by the President pro tempore in open session or in writing) to act as Acting President pro tempore; the Senate may also, by unanimous consent, authorize a Senator other than the President pro tempore (or his or her designee) to sign enrolled bills during a specific time period. In addition, the rules allow the Senate to authorize, by unanimous consent, the presiding officer (or his or her designee) to perform these duties during recesses or adjournments. For example, see Congressional Record, daily edition, vol. 163 (January 3, 2017), p. S7, when the Senate grants, by unanimous consent, a request that the President of the Senate, the President pro tempore, and the Acting President pro tempore be authorized to sign enrolled measures when the Senate is in recess or adjournment during the 115th Congress.
Charles W. Johnson, John V. Sullivan, and Thomas J. Wickham Jr., House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House (Washington: GPO, 2017), ch. 44, §§10-11; How Our Laws Are Made, H.Doc. 108-93, revised and updated by Charles W. Johnson (Washington: GPO, 2003), p. 50.
Floyd M. Riddick and Alan S. Frumin, Riddick's Senate Procedure, 101st Cong., 2nd sess., S. Doc. 101-28 (Washington: GPO, 1992), p. 830; House Practice, ch. 44, §§10, 13.
The House Clerk or Secretary of the Senate can order the printing of a "star print" to correct Government Printing Office (GPO) printing errors in engrossment, but after both chambers have acted on a measure, a concurrent resolution is necessary to correct printing errors (House Practice, ch. 44, §8; V Hinds' Precedents, §7319).
Concurrent resolutions have been used to correct enrollments even when they involve only errors in spelling or the title. For example, in the 109th Congress, H.Con.Res. 502 directed that the word point be changed to pound in the enrollment of H.R. 5682, and in the 108th Congress, the spelling of a House sponsor's name was corrected in the enrollment of S. 2238, pursuant to H.Con.Res. 458. Concurrent resolutions directing changes in enrollment may, however, also involve substantive changes. (See House Practice, ch. 44, §12.) In addition, on at least one occasion, Congress used a concurrent resolution to direct the House Clerk to "correct chapter, title, and section numbers" in the enrollment of any general appropriations bills enacted during the remainder of the 82nd Congress (Deschler's Precedents, ch. 24, §14.5). In the most recently completed Congress—the 114th—the House and Senate both agreed to eight such concurrent resolutions directing changes in enrollment (according to a search of the Legislative Information System for all adopted concurrent resolutions with "enrollment" in the title). To date in the 115th Congress, the House and Senate have agreed to one such enrollment correction resolution: H.Con.Res. 53, which directed enrollment changes in H.R. 244, a consolidated FY2017 appropriations bill.
Riddick's Senate Procedure, pp. 824, 828-829; House Practice, ch. 44, §12.
House Practice, ch. 44, §12; Riddick's Senate Procedure, pp. 824, 446-447. While the measure is typically resubmitted to the President, further action could instead be postponed indefinitely. (See Deschler's Precedents, ch. 24, §16.5.)
House Practice, ch. 44, §12. For example, in the 114th Congress, a Senate measure (S.Con.Res. 53) directed the House Clerk to correct a House measure (H.R. 5325). Conversely, multiple House measures (H.Con.Res. 47, H.Con.Res. 90, H.Con.Res. 179, H.Con.Res. 181, H.Con.Res. 183) directed the Secretary of the Senate to correct a Senate measure (S. 178, S. 1356, S. 2943, S. 1635, S. 612, respectively).
House Practice, ch. 44, §12. For an example in which the resolution was agreed to before the measure it corrected was, see S.Con.Res. 74 in the 109th Congress, which corrected the enrollment of H.R. 2863 (an emergency supplemental appropriations bill) before either chamber had agreed to the conference report.
House Practice, ch. 44, §12. In the case of a concurrent resolution requesting return from the President of a measure not yet enacted or vetoed, the House has typically considered the resolution by unanimous consent (ibid).
House Practice, ch. 44, §12. In recent examples of the House agreeing to such a resolution pursuant to a recorded vote, the vote occurred on a "self-executing" special rule, in which the recorded vote agreeing to the rule itself also had the effect of granting House approval to the concurrent resolution referenced therein. (See, for examples from the 113th Congress, H.Res. 458, by which the House agreed to H.Con.Res. 74, and H.Res. 776, by which the House agreed to H.Con.Res. 122. In the 114th Congress, the House agreed to H.Con.Res. 139 upon adoption of H.Res. 797. Since the Senate did not agree to the concurrent resolution, enrollment changes directed by H.Con.Res. 139 were not made.)
Archived CRS Report RS22507, Constitutionality of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005: Litigation, by Thomas J. Nicola, discusses the cases in more detail. Additional detail on the legislative history of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 is provided in archived CRS Report RL33132, Budget Reconciliation Legislation in 2005-2006 Under the FY2006 Budget Resolution, by Robert Keith (available to congressional clients on request from author of this report).