Funding Deadline Enforcement Act

Funding Deadline Enforcement Act

This bill generally prohibits federal funds from being used to pay for the travel costs of a Member of Congress during a fiscal year until each of the regular appropriations bills for the fiscal year has been enacted.

The bill also prohibits the House of Representatives from adjourning for more than 12 hours until each appropriations bill is enacted.

Further, on every legislative day until each appropriations bill is enacted, the Speaker of the House shall call for a recorded vote on the approval of the Journal of the last day's proceedings.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5226 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5226

To prohibit the use of official funds for travel by Members of Congress 
during a fiscal year until each of the regular appropriations bills for 
  such fiscal year have been enacted into law, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 21, 2019

Mr. Cunningham introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the use of official funds for travel by Members of Congress 
during a fiscal year until each of the regular appropriations bills for 
  such fiscal year have been enacted into law, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Funding Deadline Enforcement Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING MEMBER OFFICIAL TRAVEL UNTIL ALL APPROPRIATIONS 
              BILLS ENACTED.

    (a) Prohibition.--If, by the first day of a fiscal year, each of 
the regular appropriation bills for such fiscal year has not been 
enacted into law, no appropriated funds, including official funds of 
the House of Representatives, official funds of the Senate, or funds 
available under any Federal law, rule, or regulation, may be used to 
pay for the costs of travel by a Member of Congress until each such 
bill is enacted into law.
    (b) Exceptions.--
            (1) Travel by member to washington metropolitan area.--
        Subsection (a) does not apply with respect to travel by a 
        Member of Congress to the Washington Metropolitan Area.
            (2) Emergency.--Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect 
        to travel by a Member of Congress in response to an emergency, 
        as determined--
                    (A) by the Speaker of the House of Representatives 
                (with the concurrence of the minority leader of the 
                House of Representatives), in the case of a 
                Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner 
                to, the Congress; or
                    (B) by the majority leader of the Senate (with the 
                concurrence of the minority leader of the Senate), in 
                the case of a Senator.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``Member of Congress'' means a Senator or 
        Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the 
        Congress;
            (2) the term ``regular appropriation bill'' means any 
        annual appropriation bill which, with respect to the Congress 
        involved, is under the jurisdiction of a single subcommittee of 
        the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
        (pursuant to the Rules of the House of Representatives for that 
        Congress) and a single subcommittee of the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the Senate (pursuant to the Standing Rules of 
        the Senate); and
            (3) the term ``Washington Metropolitan Area'' means the 
        District of Columbia, the Counties of Montgomery and Prince 
        Georges in Maryland, and the Counties of Arlington, Fairfax, 
        Loudon, and Prince William and the Cities of Alexandria and 
        Falls Church in Virginia.
    (d) Effective Date.--This section shall apply with respect to 
travel taken by a Member of Congress on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. RESTRICTIONS ON ADJOURNMENT BY HOUSE.

    (a) Prohibiting Adjournment for More Than 12 Hours; Mandatory Daily 
Vote on Approval of Journal.--Rule XV of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new 
clause:
``Restrictions upon failure to enact regular appropriation bills
    ``8.(a) If, by the first day of a fiscal year, each of the regular 
appropriation bills for such fiscal year has not been enacted into law, 
until each such bill is enacted into law--
            ``(1) it shall not be in order for the House to stand 
        adjourned for a period of more than 12 hours; and
            ``(2) on each legislative day, the Speaker shall call for a 
        recorded vote on the approval of the Journal of the last day's 
        proceedings.
    ``(b) In this clause, the term `regular appropriation bill' means 
any annual appropriation bill which is under the jurisdiction of a 
single subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations.''.
    (b) Exercise of Rulemaking Powers.--The provisions of this section 
are enacted--
            (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of 
        Representatives, and as such they shall be considered as part 
        of the rules of the House, and such rules shall supersede other 
        rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; 
        and
            (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        the House of Representatives to change such rules (so far as 
        relating to the House) at any time, in the same manner, and to 
        the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the House.
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