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SRES 84 117th Congress Senate Congress Government information and archives Legislative rules and procedure Members of Congress Senate

A resolution amending the Standing Rules of the Senate to prohibit the consideration of legislation in the Senate unless the text of the legislation that will be considered has been made publicly available in electronic form for a mandatory minimum review period.

Introduced: March 1, 2021 Introduced by: Scott, Rick Republican · Florida See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Mar 1, 2021
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This resolution prohibits the Senate from considering any measure unless the text of the measure has been publicly available in electronic form for the mandatory minimum review period, and it requires each Senator to certify that they have read a measure prior to voting on it.

The mandatory minimum review period, calculated from the time the measure is made publicly available, is the greater of (1) the number of minutes that are equal to two times the number of pages in the measure, or (2) 72 hours.

What's happening now March 1, 2021

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.

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