US Congress House Resolution 110 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on March 12 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-03-12 - Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Pending: House Administration Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Public Access to Congressional Research Service Reports Resolution of 2013 or Congressional Research Service Electronic Accessibility Resolution of 2013 - Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in consultation with the Director of the Congressional Research Service (CRS), to establish and maintain a centralized, searchable, bulk downloadable, electronic database consisting of: (1) CRS Issue Briefs, Reports, Authorization of Appropriations Products and Appropriations Products, and other materials intended or available for general congressional distribution through the CRS website; and (2) an index of such information. Exempts: (1) any information determined to be confidential by the CRS Director or the head of the agency that provided it to CRS; and (2) any document produced in response to a confidential research request made by a House Member, officer, employee, or office, provided that the document has not been distributed and is not intended for distribution to anyone other than the individual or office making the request. Directs the Clerk, in addition to the database, to establish and maintain contemporaneously a website containing a searchable, sortable index of all of the information in the database in both human- and machine-readable formats (such as Extensible Markup Language [XML]). Authorizes the Clerk, on the basis of information provided by the Director, to: (1) remove from the database, and from related CRS products, the name and contact information of CRS employees or material that may infringe the copyright of a protected work; and (2) make any changes that the Director determines are necessary to ensure that information in the database is accurate and current. Requires each official public website of a House Member, House committee, or joint committee of Congress to permit public use to obtain the information contained in such database to the same extent as House users may obtain such information through the CRS website.

Congressional Research Service Electronic Accessibility Resolution of 2013

Rep. Leonard Lance [R-NJ]	Rep. Justin Amash [R-MI]	Rep. Kerry Bentivolio [R-MI]	Rep. Jim Cooper [D-TN]
Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]	Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]
Rep. Juan Vargas [D-CA]	Sen. Todd Young [R-IN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-03-12	House	Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-resolution/110/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hres110/BILLS-113hres110ih.pdf