HR 7592 · To direct the Librarian of Congress to promote the more cost-effective, efficient, and expanded availability of the Annotated Constitution and pocket-part supplements by replacing the hardbound versions with digital versions.

Legislation· Sep 2024

To direct the Librarian of Congress to promote the more cost-effective, efficient, and expanded availability of the Annotated Constitution and pocket-part supplements by replacing the hardbound versions with digital versions.

Would have replaced printed Constitution Annotated books and supplements with digital versions posted on the Library of Congress website.

Tradeoff

Would have ended the printed editions of the Constitution Annotated and its supplements. Would have required digital versions posted online instead, starting after the October 2023 Supreme Court term.

What's in it

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H.R. 7592, a bill to direct the Librarian of Congress to promote the more cost-effective, efficient, and expanded availability of the Annotated Constitution and pocket-part supplements by replacing the hardbound versions with digital versionswww.cbo.gov/publication/60599 · Aug 2024

The House passed this bill by on September 9, 2024. The Senate never voted on it before the Congress ended, so the bill expired.

House
Introduced
(Mar 8, 2024)
House
Committee on House Administration(Mar 8, 2024)
House
The Committee on House Administration voted to send it to the floor
Reported by (Apr 30, 2024)
Committee report H. Rept. 118-632.
House
Passage of the bill
Passed by (Sep 9, 2024)
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Received from the House
on Rules and Administration(Sep 10, 2024)