S.Res. 84 · 117th 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.

Active· Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Introduced
Mar 1, 21
Passed Senate
Pending
Passed House
Pending
Sent to President
Pending
Signed into Law
Pending

Executive 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.

Action Timeline

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  1. MAR 01, 2021IntroReferral

    Introduced in Senate

  2. MAR 01, 2021IntroReferral

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

Committees

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Rules and Administration Committee

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Referred: Mar 2, 2021

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