Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to clarify certain matters relating to official conduct.

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends Rule XXIII (Code of Official Conduct) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to authorize a Member of Congress to use personal, official, or campaign funds for a flight on an aircraft that is operated: (1) by an air carrier or commercial operator certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the flight is required to be conducted under air carrier safety rules; or (2) in the case of travel abroad, by an air carrier or commercial operator certificated by an appropriate foreign civil aviation authority, and the flight is similarly required to be conducted under air carrier safety rules.

Allows the use of such funds also if the aircraft: (1) is owned or leased by the Member or a family member (including a privately owned aircraft in which such Member or family member has an ownership interest, and the Member does not use the aircraft any more than the proportionate share of ownership allows); or (3) is operated by a state or federal entity.

Allows the use of such funds also for a flight that consists of the personal use of an aircraft supplied to a Member by an individual on the basis of personal friendship.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 363 Engrossed in House (EH)]


                In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

                                                           May 2, 2007.
    Resolved,  That clause 15 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended to read as follows:
    ``15. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a Member, Delegate, or 
Resident Commissioner may not use personal funds, official funds, or campaign 
funds for a flight on an aircraft.
    ``(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply if--
            ``(1) the aircraft is operated by an air carrier or commercial 
        operator certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the 
        flight is required to be conducted under air carrier safety rules, or, 
        in the case of travel which is abroad, by an air carrier or commercial 
        operator certificated by an appropriate foreign civil aviation authority 
        and the flight is required to be conducted under air carrier safety 
        rules;
            ``(2) the aircraft is owned or leased by a Member, Delegate, 
        Resident Commissioner or his or her family member (including an aircraft 
        owned by an entity that is not a public corporation in which the Member, 
        Delegate, Resident Commissioner or his or her family member has an 
        ownership interest, provided that such Member, Delegate, or Resident 
        Commissioner does not use the aircraft any more than the Member, 
        Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or family member's proportionate share 
        of ownership allows);
            ``(3) the flight consists of the personal use of an aircraft by a 
        Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner that is supplied by an 
        individual on the basis of personal friendship; or
            ``(4) the aircraft is operated by an entity of the Federal 
        government or an entity of the government of any State.
    ``(c) In this clause--
            ``(1) the term `campaign funds' includes funds of any political 
        committee under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, without 
        regard to whether the committee is an authorized committee of the 
        Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner involved under such Act;
            ``(2) the term `family member' means an individual who is related to 
        the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner, as father, mother, son, 
        daughter, brother, sister, husband, wife, father-in-law, or mother-in-
        law; and
            ``(3) the term `on the basis of personal friendship' has the same 
        meaning as in clause 5 of rule XXV and shall be determined as under 
        clause 5(a)(3)(D)(ii) of rule XXV.''.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.