Sec. 2. Changes to the Standing Rules
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In clause 3 of rule II, add the following new paragraph: The Sergeant-at-Arms is authorized and directed to impose a fine against a Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner for the use of an electronic device for still photography or for audio or visual recording or broadcasting in contravention of clause 5 of rule XVII and any applicable Speaker’s announced policy on electronic devices. A fine imposed pursuant to this paragraph shall be $500 for a first offense and $2,500 for any subsequent offense.
The Sergeant-at-Arms shall promptly notify the Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner, the Speaker, the Chief Administrative Officer, and the Committee on Ethics of any such fine. Such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may appeal the fine in writing to the Committee on Ethics not later than 30 calendar days or five legislative days, whichever is later, after notification pursuant to subdivision (A). Upon receipt of an appeal pursuant to subdivision (B), the Committee on Ethics shall have 30 calendar days or five legislative days, whichever is later, to either dismiss the fine or allow it to proceed.
Upon a determination regarding the appeal or if no appeal has been filed at the expiration of the period specified in subdivision (B), the chair of the Committee on Ethics shall promptly notify the Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner, the Speaker and the Chief Administrative Officer. The Speaker shall promptly lay such notification before the House. The Sergeant-at-Arms and the Committee on Ethics are authorized to establish policies and procedures for the implementation of this paragraph. .
In clause 4 of rule II, add the following new paragraph: Upon notification from the chair of the Committee on Ethics pursuant to clause 3(g)(3)(C), the Chief Administrative Officer shall deduct the amount of any fine levied under clause 3(g) from the net salary otherwise due the Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner. The Chief Administrative Officer is authorized to establish policies and procedures for such salary deductions. . Rule XVII is amended by redesignating clause 9 as clause 10, and by inserting after clause 8 the following new clause:
Legislative Proceedings A Member, Delegate, the Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may not engage in disorderly or disruptive conduct in the Chamber, including— intentionally obstructing or impeding the passage of others in the Chamber; the use of an exhibit to impede, disrupt, or disturb the proceedings of the House; and the denial of legislative instruments to others seeking to engage in legislative proceedings. This clause establishes a standard of conduct within the meaning of clause 3(a)(2) of rule XI. .
Clause 2(d) of rule X is amended to read as follows: Not later than February 15 of the first session of a Congress, each standing committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Ethics, and the Committee on Rules) shall, in a meeting that is open to the public, adopt its authorization and oversight plan for that Congress. Such plan shall be submitted simultaneously to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Committee on House Administration, and the Committee on Appropriations.
Each such plan shall include, with respect to programs and agencies within the committee’s jurisdiction, and to the maximum extent practicable— a list of such programs or agencies with lapsed authorizations that received funding in the prior fiscal year or, in the case of a program or agency with a permanent authorization, which has not been subject to a comprehensive review by the committee in the prior three Congresses; a description of each such program or agency to be authorized in the current Congress; a description of each such program or agency to be authorized in the next Congress, if applicable; a description of any oversight to support the authorization of each such program or agency in the current Congress; and recommendations for changes to existing law for moving such programs or agencies from mandatory funding to discretionary appropriations, where appropriate.
Each such plan may include, with respect to the programs and agencies within the committee’s jurisdiction— recommendations for the consolidation or termination of such programs or agencies that are duplicative, unnecessary, or inconsistent with the appropriate roles and responsibilities of the Federal Government; recommendations for changes to existing law related to Federal rules, regulations, statutes, and court decisions affecting such programs and agencies that are inconsistent with the authorities of the Congress under Article I of the Constitution; and a description of such other oversight activities as the committee may consider necessary.
In the development of such plan, the chair of each committee shall coordinate with other committees of jurisdiction to ensure that programs and agencies are subject to routine, comprehensive authorization efforts. Not later than March 31 in the first session of a Congress, after consultation with the Speaker, the Majority Leader, and the Minority Leader, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shall report to the House the authorization and oversight plans submitted by committees together with any recommendations that it, or the House leadership group described above, may make to ensure the most effective coordination of authorization and oversight plans and otherwise to achieve the objectives of this clause. .
In clause 1(d)(2)(B) of rule XI, insert authorization and before oversight . In clause 1(d)(2)(C) of rule XI, insert authorization and before oversight . In clause 2 of rule XXI, add the following new paragraph: An amendment to a general appropriation bill shall not be in order if proposing a net increase in the level of budget authority in the bill. . In clause 3(c) of rule XIII, add the following new subparagraph: On a bill or joint resolution that establishes or reauthorizes a Federal program, a statement indicating whether any such program is known to be duplicative of another such program, including at a minimum an explanation of whether any such program was included in a report to Congress pursuant to section 21 of Public Law 111–139 or whether the most recent Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (published pursuant to section 6104 of title 31, United States Code) identified other programs related to the program established or reauthorized by the measure. .
In clause 6 of rule I, strike The Speaker shall rise to put a question but may state it sitting. . In clause 6(d) of rule XIII, strike rises and insert seeks recognition . In clause 1(a) of rule XVII, strike rise and . In clause 2 of rule XVII, strike rise at once and insert seek recognition . In clause 5 of rule XVII, strike walk out of or across and insert exit or cross . In clause 1(a) of rule XX, strike from their seats to and insert or otherwise indicate from their seats and .
In clause 12(d) of rule I, strike whenever and insert if . In clause 2(a) of rule II, insert and in the absence of a Member acting as Speaker pro tempore pursuant to clause 8(b)(3)(A) of rule I, after tempore, . In clause 8 of rule II, add the following new paragraph: The House, the Speaker, a committee or the chair of a committee authorized during a prior Congress to act in a litigation matter is authorized to act as the successor in interest to the House, the Speaker, such committee or the chair of such committee of a prior Congress, respectively, with respect to such litigation matter, and to take such steps as may be appropriate to ensure continuation of such litigation matter. .
In clause 5 of rule IV, strike shall remain at the desk and . In clause 6 of rule VII— redesignate paragraphs
(a)and
(b)as subparagraphs
(1)and (2); designate the existing sentence as paragraph (a); in paragraph
(a)(as so designated), insert as described in paragraph
(b)after Resident Commissioner ; and add at the end the following new paragraph: Records created, generated, or received by the congressional office of a Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner in the performance of official duties are exclusively the personal property of the individual Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner and such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner has control over such records. . Amend rule VIII to read as follows— When a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House is properly served with a judicial subpoena or order, such Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee shall comply, consistently with the privileges and rights of the House, with the judicial subpoena or order as hereinafter provided, unless otherwise determined under this rule. For purposes of this rule, ‘judicial subpoena or order’ means a judicial subpoena or judicial order directing appearance as a witness relating to the official functions of the House or for the production or disclosure of any document relating to the official functions of the House. Upon receipt of a properly served judicial subpoena or order, a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall promptly notify the Speaker in writing of its receipt together with either: a determination as to whether the issuance of the judicial subpoena or order is a proper exercise of jurisdiction by the court and is consistent with the privileges and rights of the House; or a statement that such Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House intends to make a determination with respect to the matters described in subparagraph (1). The notification required by paragraph
(a)shall promptly be laid before the House by the Speaker. Except as specified in paragraph
(b)or otherwise ordered by the House, upon notification to the House that a judicial subpoena or order is a proper exercise of jurisdiction by the court and is consistent with the privileges and rights of the House, the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall comply with the judicial subpoena or order by supplying copies. Under no circumstances may minutes or transcripts of executive sessions, or evidence of witnesses in respect thereto, be disclosed or copied. During a period of recess or adjournment of longer than three days, the Speaker may authorize compliance or take such other action as the Speaker considers appropriate under the circumstances. Upon the reconvening of the House, all matters that transpired under this clause shall promptly be laid before the House by the Speaker. Nothing in this rule shall be construed to deprive, condition, or waive the constitutional or legal privileges or rights applicable or available at any time to a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House, or of the House itself, or the right of such Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee, or of the House itself, to assert such privileges or rights before a court in the United States. . Amend clause 5(d)(2) of rule X to read as follows: A committee that maintains a subcommittee on oversight may have not more than six subcommittees. The Committee on Appropriations may have not more than 13 subcommittees. The Committee on Armed Services may have not more than seven subcommittees. The Committee on Foreign Affairs may have not more than seven subcommittees. The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform may have not more than seven subcommittees. The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure may have not more than six subcommittees. . In clause 2(g)(2)(D) of rule XI, insert , the Committee on Homeland Security after Armed Services . In clause 1(a)(1) of rule XIII— insert or before releasing ; and strike , or referring a claim to the Court of Claims ; and In clause 3 of rule XVIII— insert or before releasing ; and strike , or referring a claim to the Court of Claims . Clause 3(e)(1) of rule XIII is amended by striking accompanying document— and all that follows and inserting “accompanying document (showing by appropriate typographical devices the omissions and insertions proposed)— the entire text of each section of a statute that is proposed to be repealed; and a comparative print of each amendment to the entire text of a section of a statute that the bill or joint resolution proposes to make. . In clause 8(a)(2) of rule XX— Redesignate subdivisions
(E)through
(H)as subdivisions
(G)through (J), respectively; Insert after subdivision
(D)the following new subdivisions: The question of adopting a motion to recommit. The question of adopting a motion to concur in a Senate amendment, with or without amendment. ; and In subdivision
(G)(as redesignated), strike subdivision (A), (B), (C), or
(D)and insert subdivisions
(A)through
(F). In clause 9 of rule XX— In paragraph (a), insert or after the semicolon; and Strike paragraphs
(b)and
(c)and insert the following: if in the discretion of the Speaker Members would be afforded an adequate opportunity to vote— on any question arising after a report from the Committee of the Whole without debate or intervening motion; or on the question of adoption of a motion to recommit (or ordering the previous question thereon) arising without intervening motion or debate other than debate on the motion. . In clause 3 of rule XXIX, strike in electronic form at a location designated by the Committee on House Administration and insert at an electronic document repository operated by the Clerk . Effective December 31, 2017, in rule XXI, add at the end the following new clause: Before a bill or joint resolution proposing to repeal or amend a statute or part thereof may be considered, there shall be made available on a publicly available website of the House an easily searchable electronic comparative print that shows how the bill or joint resolution proposes to change current law, showing (to the greatest extent practicable) by appropriate typographical devices the omissions and insertions proposed. Before an amendment in the nature of a substitute may be considered if the amendment proposes to repeal or amend a statute or part thereof, there shall be made available on a publicly available website of the House an easily searchable electronic comparative print that shows (to the greatest extent practicable) how the amendment proposes to change current law, showing by appropriate typographical devices the omissions and insertions proposed. If a committee reports a bill or joint resolution, before the bill or joint resolution may be considered with text different from the text reported, there shall be made available on a publicly available website of the House a document that shows, by appropriate typographical devices, the differences between the text of the bill or joint resolution as proposed to be considered and the text of the bill or joint resolution as reported. . Clause 1 of rule XVIII is amended by inserting , Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner after Member .
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Changes to the Standing Rules
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