SRES 84
117th Congress
Senate
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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.
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 1, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Mar 1, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
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.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Committees of jurisdiction
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