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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. CON. RES. 7
Establishing the Task Force on the Legislative Process.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY28, 2025
Ms. W
ILLIAMSof Georgia submitted the following concurrent resolution; which
was referred to the Committee on Rules
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Establishing the Task Force on the Legislative Process.
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 1
concurring), 2
SECTION 1. PURPOSE. 3
The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to imple-4
ment the 131st recommendation of the Select Committee 5
on the Modernization of Congress, passed by the Select 6
Committee during the 117th Congress, to create a Task 7
Force on the Legislative Process that analyzes the range 8
of legislative processes by which, if adopted by both 9
Houses, each House would provide expedited consideration 10
of legislation that was passed by the other House with 11
wide and bipartisan support. 12
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SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF TASK FORCE. 1
(a) E
STABLISHMENT; PURPOSE.—There is hereby es-2
tablished the Task Force on the Legislative Process (here-3
after referred to as the ‘‘Task Force’’) whose purpose shall 4
be to analyze the range of options for bicameral legislation 5
expedition. 6
(b) D
EFINITION.—In this concurrent resolution, the 7
term ‘‘bicameral legislation expedition’’ means any legisla-8
tive process by which each House of Congress jointly pro-9
vides for expedited consideration of legislation which was 10
passed by the other House by unanimous consent, by voice 11
vote, or with the approval of not fewer than
2
⁄3of the 12
members voting. 13
SEC. 3. MEMBERSHIP. 14
(a) C
OMPOSITION.—The Task Force shall be com-15
posed of 12 members appointed as follows: 16
(1) The Speaker of the House of Representa-17
tives shall appoint 3 individuals who are Members of 18
the House of Representatives, of whom at least one 19
shall be a majority member of the Committee on 20
Rules of the House. 21
(2) The Minority Leader of the House shall ap-22
point 3 individuals who are Members of the House 23
of Representatives, of whom at least one shall be a 24
minority member of the Committee on Rules of the 25
House. 26
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(3) The Majority Leader of the Senate shall ap-1
point 3 individuals who are Members of the Senate, 2
of whom at least one shall be a majority member of 3
the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 4
Senate. 5
(4) The Minority Leader of the Senate shall ap-6
point 3 individuals who are Members of the Senate, 7
of whom at least one shall be a minority member of 8
the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 9
Senate. 10
(b) C
O-CHAIRS.—The Speaker, Minority Leader of 11
the House, Majority Leader of the Senate, and Minority 12
Leader of the Senate shall jointly select 2 of the members 13
of the Task Force to serve as co-chairs of the Task Force. 14
(c) V
ACANCIES.—A vacancy in the membership of the 15
Task Force shall be filled in the same manner as the origi-16
nal appointment. 17
(d) I
NCLUSION OFDELEGATES ANDRESIDENTCOM-18
MISSIONER.—For purposes of this section, a ‘‘Member’’ 19
of the House of Representatives includes a Delegate or 20
Resident Commissioner to the Congress. 21
SEC. 4. DUTIES. 22
(a) P
ROCEDURES.—The Task Force shall establish a 23
process to solicit information, input, and legislative pro-24
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posals which are directly related to the purpose of the 1
Task Force under section 2. 2
(b) R
EPORT.— 3
(1) C
ONTENTS.—The Task Force shall issue a 4
report to the Speaker of the House, the Minority 5
Leader of the House, the Majority Leader of the 6
Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Com-7
mittee on Rules of the House of Representatives, 8
and the Committee on Rules and Administration of 9
the Senate, and shall include in the report— 10
(A) an analysis of the range of options for 11
bicameral legislation expedition; and 12
(B) any recommendations relating to bi-13
cameral legislation expedition which are ap-14
proved by not fewer than 9 of its members. 15
(2) D
EADLINE.—The Task Force shall issue 16
the report required under paragraph (1) not later 17
than one year after the date of the adoption of this 18
concurrent resolution. 19
(c) U
SE OFSTAFF.—The Task Force may use the 20
services of staff of the House and Senate to assist it in 21
carrying out its duties. 22
SEC. 5. POSTING OF PROPOSALS BY COMMITTEES. 23
Upon receiving the report issued by the Task Force 24
under section 4(b), the Committee on Rules of the House 25
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of Representatives and the Committee on Rules and Ad-1
ministration of the Senate shall each publicly post the re-2
port on a public page of its website. 3
SEC. 6. TERMINATION. 4
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Task Force shall terminate 5
upon issuing the report required under section 4(b). 6
(b) D
ISPOSITION OFRECORDS.—Upon its termi-7
nation, the records of the Task Force shall be transferred 8
to, and shall become part of, the records of the Committee 9
on Rules of the House of Representatives and the Com-10
mittee on Rules and Administration of the Senate. 11
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