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Modernizing Congressional Reporting Act of 2019

Introduced: January 19, 2019 See on congress.gov
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Apr 10, 2019
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 68.
Apr 10, 2019
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with amendments. With written report No. 116-32.
Feb 13, 2019
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Jan 19, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Jan 19, 2019
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Modernizing Congressional Reporting Act of 2019

This bill requires that any (1) report or other recorded information required to be submitted to Congress by an agency and any response from an agency to a request by a congressional office shall only be transmitted in an acceptable electronic format; and (2) structured data included in or with, or used to create any chart included in or with, any report or recorded information shall be transmitted in such format. Agencies must publish these reports and associated data on their public websites.

What's happening now April 10, 2019

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 68.

 Bill text 2 versions

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 1 Republican 4
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Daines, Steve
Montana · Jan 19, 2019
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Ernst, Joni
Iowa · Jan 19, 2019
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Hassan, Margaret Wood
New Hampshire · Jan 19, 2019
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Hoeven, John
North Dakota · Jan 19, 2019
 R
Lankford, James
Oklahoma · Jan 19, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 196: Modernizing Congressional Reporting Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-196/
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"S. 196: Modernizing Congressional Reporting Act of 2019." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-196/.
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S. 196, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-196/.
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[S. 196: Modernizing Congressional Reporting Act of 2019](https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-196/)
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