[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6085 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6085

  To amend section 40 of the Revised Statutes of the United States to 
clarify that for purposes of determining whether a Member of the House 
   of Representatives is subject to a deduction in pay by reason of 
 absence from the House on a day, the Member shall be considered to be 
absent if the Member misses any vote held in the House on that day, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 9, 2012

 Mr. Boustany introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend section 40 of the Revised Statutes of the United States to 
clarify that for purposes of determining whether a Member of the House 
   of Representatives is subject to a deduction in pay by reason of 
 absence from the House on a day, the Member shall be considered to be 
absent if the Member misses any vote held in the House on that day, and 
                          for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. DETERMINATION OF ABSENCE OF MEMBERS FROM HOUSE FOR PURPOSES 
              OF DEDUCTIONS FROM PAY.

    (a) Absence Based on Missing Votes.--Section 40 of the Revised 
Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 39) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``or Delegate'' the first place it appears 
        and inserting ``(including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner 
        to the Congress)'';
            (2) by striking ``or Delegate'' the second place it 
        appears; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``For 
        purposes of the previous sentence, a Member shall be considered 
        to be absent from the House on a day if the Member does not 
        cast a vote on any vote taken in the House (including any vote 
        taken in the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 
        Union) on that day.''.
    (b) Criteria for Determining Excusable Absences.--Section 40 of the 
Revised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 39), as amended by 
subsection (a)(2), is amended by striking ``unless such Member assigns 
as the reason for such absence the sickness of himself or of some 
member of his family'' and inserting the following: ``unless such 
Member submits a written notice to the Speaker that the reason for such 
absence is the sickness of the Member or of some member of the Member's 
family''.
    (c) Publication of List of Members Submitting Requests for 
Excusable Absences and Members Subject to Deduction From Pay.--Section 
40 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 39) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``The Chief'' and inserting ``(a) 
        Deductions From Pay.--The Chief''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Publication of List of Members.--Not later than 5 days after 
the end of each month (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal public 
holidays), the Chief Administrative Officer shall publish on the 
official public Internet site of the House of Representatives a list 
showing the following information:
            ``(1) Each Member whose pay was subject to deduction under 
        subsection (a) for the month, together with (for each such 
        Member)--
                    ``(A) the amount of the Member's pay which was 
                deducted during the month and the aggregate amount of 
                the Member's pay which was deducted during the session 
                of Congress involved; and
                    ``(B) the number of days for which the Member's pay 
                was subject to deduction during the month and the 
                aggregate number of days for which the Member's pay was 
                subject to deduction during the session of Congress 
                involved.
            ``(2) Each Member who submitted a written notice to the 
        Speaker under subsection (a) during the month, together with a 
        copy of the notice.''.
    (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect January 1, 2013.
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