Clause 12 of Rule XXI

Rules XXI of the House of Representatives

[Comparative Print Availability]

§1068k. To Be Determined. 

12. (a)(1) Before a bill or joint resolution proposing to repeal or amend a statute or part thereof may be considered, there shall be made available on a publicly available website of the House an easily searchable electronic comparative print that shows how the bill or joint resolution proposes to change current law, showing (to the greatest extent practicable) by appropriate typographical devices the omissions and insertions proposed.

(2) Before an amendment in the nature of a substitute may be considered if the amendment proposes to repeal or amend a statute or part thereof, there shall be made available on a publicly available website of the House an easily searchable electronic comparative print that shows (to the greatest extent practicable) how the amendment proposes to change current law, showing by appropriate typographical devices the omissions and insertions proposed.

(b) If a committee reports a bill or joint resolution, before the bill or joint resolution may be considered with text different from the text reported, there shall be made available on a publicly available website of the House a document that shows, by appropriate typographical devices, the differences between the text of the bill or joint resolution as proposed to be considered and the text of the bill or joint resolution as reported.

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House and Rules Manual Notes

[No House Manual Notes have been yet to be published.]

Counsel Notes

Ramseyer Rule

This expands on the “Ramseyer Rule”, which requires committee reports to include a display as to the changes a law makes, with repeals in strikethrough and additions in italic script. 

From the Committee on Rules “Section-By-Section Analysis”:

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