[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 849 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 849

   To amend title 1 of the United States Code to define the type of 
adjournment that prevents the return of a bill by the President, and to 
 authorize the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary 
 of the Senate to receive bills returned by the President at any time 
              their respective Houses are not in session.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 4, 1993

 Mr. Derrick introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly 
              to the Committees on the Judiciary and Rules

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 1 of the United States Code to define the type of 
adjournment that prevents the return of a bill by the President, and to 
 authorize the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary 
 of the Senate to receive bills returned by the President at any time 
              their respective Houses are not in session.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO TITLE 1, UNITED STATES CODE.

    Chapter 2 of title 1 of the United States Code is amended by 
inserting at the end thereof the following new section:
``Sec. 115. Adjournment preventing return of bill; Clerk of the House 
              of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate authorized 
              to receive bills returned when their respective Houses 
              not in session
    ``(a) No adjournment of either House of Congress, other than an 
adjournment sine die to end a Congress, prevents the return of a bill 
by the President.
    ``(b) The Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary 
of the Senate are authorized to receive bills returned by the President 
at any time their respective Houses are not in session.''.

SEC. 2. CLERICAL AMENDMENT.

    The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 2 of title 1 of 
the United States Code is amended by adding at the end the following 
new item:

``115. Adjournment preventing return of bill; Clerk of the House of 
                            Representatives and Secretary of the Senate 
                            authorized to receive bills returned when 
                            their respective Houses not in session.''.

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