This resolution adopts the Rules of the House of Representatives from the 118th Congress as the rules for the 119th Congress, and makes many specific changes and orders. Major changes include new limits on privileged resolutions to vacate the Speaker (they must be offered by a majority-party member and have at least eight majority-party cosponsors), permission for committees to adopt electronic voting under Committee on Rules and House Administration regulations, and several administrative and naming changes (for example, renaming some committees and removing the Office of Diversity and Inclusion).
The resolution adds a new "district work periods" rule that treats those days differently for certain legislative counting rules and allows the Speaker to appoint Members to preside during district work periods. It updates family-relationship language in House rules, restricts when the House may consider motions to suspend the rules (only Mondays through Wednesdays), and includes technical wording fixes.
Other significant items in the resolution: application of the Holman Rule for reductions in spending or salaries; rules for considering "spending reduction" accounts in general appropriation bills; new scoring and analysis requirements for certain long-term budget or trust-fund effects and a rule that conveyances of Federal land will not be scored as providing new budget authority; expanded transparency and new rules for Congressional Member Organizations and how they may use member representational funds; procedures for remote witnesses in committee (not including executive branch witnesses); directives to continue integrating artificial intelligence and to improve machine-readable legislative documents and the committee document repository; rules limiting former-members' access to certain exercise facilities if they are registered lobbyists or foreign agents; required postings of employee rights and limits on non-disclosure agreements that would block communications to oversight or ethics offices; requirements that Members reimburse certain discrimination settlements before House Administration approves them; mandatory anti-harassment and anti-discrimination policies for House employing offices; requirements for each standing committee to hold a "member day" hearing on proposed legislation; expanded deposition authority for committee chairs (with regulations); and continued authority to pursue certain subpoenas and related civil litigation arising in the prior Congress.
The resolution also lists a set of specific measures to be considered immediately under special rules, covering topics that include athletics and sex classification, immigration and deportability, sanctuary jurisdiction funding, criminal penalties for fleeing federal officers, protections for children surviving abortions, sanctions related to the International Criminal Court, taxation rules for certain Taiwan residents, voter-registration citizenship proof, fentanyl scheduling, and a ban on a hydraulic fracturing moratorium. Consideration of each listed measure is set out with limited debate and a single motion to recommit.
The resolution authorizes "such sums as may be necessary" to cover further expenses of the Committee on House Administration for resolving contested elections during a specified period (noon January 3, 2025, to noon January 3, 2026) and requires those amounts to be spent under Committee regulations. No dollar totals or wider cost estimates are provided in the text.
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