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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. CON. RES. 7 |
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| 5 | 5 | | Establishing the Task Force on the Legislative Process. |
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| 6 | 6 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 7 | 7 | | JANUARY28, 2025 |
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| 8 | 8 | | Ms. W |
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| 9 | 9 | | ILLIAMSof Georgia submitted the following concurrent resolution; which |
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| 10 | 10 | | was referred to the Committee on Rules |
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| 11 | 11 | | CONCURRENT RESOLUTION |
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| 12 | 12 | | Establishing the Task Force on the Legislative Process. |
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| 13 | 13 | | Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 1 |
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| 14 | 14 | | concurring), 2 |
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| 15 | 15 | | SECTION 1. PURPOSE. 3 |
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| 16 | 16 | | The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to imple-4 |
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| 17 | 17 | | ment the 131st recommendation of the Select Committee 5 |
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| 18 | 18 | | on the Modernization of Congress, passed by the Select 6 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Committee during the 117th Congress, to create a Task 7 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Force on the Legislative Process that analyzes the range 8 |
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| 21 | 21 | | of legislative processes by which, if adopted by both 9 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Houses, each House would provide expedited consideration 10 |
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| 23 | 23 | | of legislation that was passed by the other House with 11 |
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| 24 | 24 | | wide and bipartisan support. 12 |
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| 28 | 28 | | SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF TASK FORCE. 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (a) E |
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| 30 | 30 | | STABLISHMENT; PURPOSE.—There is hereby es-2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | tablished the Task Force on the Legislative Process (here-3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | after referred to as the ‘‘Task Force’’) whose purpose shall 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | be to analyze the range of options for bicameral legislation 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | expedition. 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (b) D |
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| 36 | 36 | | EFINITION.—In this concurrent resolution, the 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | term ‘‘bicameral legislation expedition’’ means any legisla-8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | tive process by which each House of Congress jointly pro-9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | vides for expedited consideration of legislation which was 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | passed by the other House by unanimous consent, by voice 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | vote, or with the approval of not fewer than |
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| 42 | 42 | | 2 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ⁄3of the 12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | members voting. 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | SEC. 3. MEMBERSHIP. 14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (a) C |
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| 47 | 47 | | OMPOSITION.—The Task Force shall be com-15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | posed of 12 members appointed as follows: 16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (1) The Speaker of the House of Representa-17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | tives shall appoint 3 individuals who are Members of 18 |
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| 51 | 51 | | the House of Representatives, of whom at least one 19 |
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| 52 | 52 | | shall be a majority member of the Committee on 20 |
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| 53 | 53 | | Rules of the House. 21 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (2) The Minority Leader of the House shall ap-22 |
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| 55 | 55 | | point 3 individuals who are Members of the House 23 |
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| 56 | 56 | | of Representatives, of whom at least one shall be a 24 |
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| 57 | 57 | | minority member of the Committee on Rules of the 25 |
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| 58 | 58 | | House. 26 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (3) The Majority Leader of the Senate shall ap-1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | point 3 individuals who are Members of the Senate, 2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | of whom at least one shall be a majority member of 3 |
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| 65 | 65 | | the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 4 |
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| 66 | 66 | | Senate. 5 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (4) The Minority Leader of the Senate shall ap-6 |
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| 68 | 68 | | point 3 individuals who are Members of the Senate, 7 |
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| 69 | 69 | | of whom at least one shall be a minority member of 8 |
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| 70 | 70 | | the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 9 |
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| 71 | 71 | | Senate. 10 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (b) C |
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| 73 | 73 | | O-CHAIRS.—The Speaker, Minority Leader of 11 |
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| 74 | 74 | | the House, Majority Leader of the Senate, and Minority 12 |
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| 75 | 75 | | Leader of the Senate shall jointly select 2 of the members 13 |
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| 76 | 76 | | of the Task Force to serve as co-chairs of the Task Force. 14 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (c) V |
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| 78 | 78 | | ACANCIES.—A vacancy in the membership of the 15 |
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| 79 | 79 | | Task Force shall be filled in the same manner as the origi-16 |
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| 80 | 80 | | nal appointment. 17 |
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| 81 | 81 | | (d) I |
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| 82 | 82 | | NCLUSION OFDELEGATES ANDRESIDENTCOM-18 |
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| 83 | 83 | | MISSIONER.—For purposes of this section, a ‘‘Member’’ 19 |
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| 84 | 84 | | of the House of Representatives includes a Delegate or 20 |
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| 85 | 85 | | Resident Commissioner to the Congress. 21 |
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| 86 | 86 | | SEC. 4. DUTIES. 22 |
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| 87 | 87 | | (a) P |
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| 88 | 88 | | ROCEDURES.—The Task Force shall establish a 23 |
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| 89 | 89 | | process to solicit information, input, and legislative pro-24 |
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| 93 | 93 | | posals which are directly related to the purpose of the 1 |
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| 94 | 94 | | Task Force under section 2. 2 |
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| 95 | 95 | | (b) R |
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| 96 | 96 | | EPORT.— 3 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (1) C |
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| 98 | 98 | | ONTENTS.—The Task Force shall issue a 4 |
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| 99 | 99 | | report to the Speaker of the House, the Minority 5 |
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| 100 | 100 | | Leader of the House, the Majority Leader of the 6 |
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| 101 | 101 | | Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Com-7 |
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| 102 | 102 | | mittee on Rules of the House of Representatives, 8 |
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| 103 | 103 | | and the Committee on Rules and Administration of 9 |
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| 104 | 104 | | the Senate, and shall include in the report— 10 |
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| 105 | 105 | | (A) an analysis of the range of options for 11 |
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| 106 | 106 | | bicameral legislation expedition; and 12 |
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| 107 | 107 | | (B) any recommendations relating to bi-13 |
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| 108 | 108 | | cameral legislation expedition which are ap-14 |
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| 109 | 109 | | proved by not fewer than 9 of its members. 15 |
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| 110 | 110 | | (2) D |
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| 111 | 111 | | EADLINE.—The Task Force shall issue 16 |
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| 112 | 112 | | the report required under paragraph (1) not later 17 |
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| 113 | 113 | | than one year after the date of the adoption of this 18 |
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| 114 | 114 | | concurrent resolution. 19 |
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| 115 | 115 | | (c) U |
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| 116 | 116 | | SE OFSTAFF.—The Task Force may use the 20 |
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| 117 | 117 | | services of staff of the House and Senate to assist it in 21 |
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| 118 | 118 | | carrying out its duties. 22 |
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| 119 | 119 | | SEC. 5. POSTING OF PROPOSALS BY COMMITTEES. 23 |
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| 120 | 120 | | Upon receiving the report issued by the Task Force 24 |
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| 121 | 121 | | under section 4(b), the Committee on Rules of the House 25 |
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| 125 | 125 | | of Representatives and the Committee on Rules and Ad-1 |
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| 126 | 126 | | ministration of the Senate shall each publicly post the re-2 |
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| 127 | 127 | | port on a public page of its website. 3 |
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| 128 | 128 | | SEC. 6. TERMINATION. 4 |
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| 129 | 129 | | (a) I |
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| 130 | 130 | | NGENERAL.—The Task Force shall terminate 5 |
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| 131 | 131 | | upon issuing the report required under section 4(b). 6 |
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| 132 | 132 | | (b) D |
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| 133 | 133 | | ISPOSITION OFRECORDS.—Upon its termi-7 |
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| 134 | 134 | | nation, the records of the Task Force shall be transferred 8 |
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| 135 | 135 | | to, and shall become part of, the records of the Committee 9 |
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| 136 | 136 | | on Rules of the House of Representatives and the Com-10 |
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| 137 | 137 | | mittee on Rules and Administration of the Senate. 11 |
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