Members Operating to Be Innovative and Link Everyone Resolution or the MOBILE Resolution
This resolution provides for remote voting for certain House floor votes and remote participation in committee hearings.
The House Clerk, Chief Administrative Officer, and Sergeant at Arms shall work together to develop and implement a secure remote voting system that gives members who are absent from the floor permission to cast a vote remotely on a motion to suspend the rules if the vote is taken by electronic device. A member who casts such a vote using the remote voting system shall be treated as present for purposes of determining the existence of a quorum for considering the motion.
Each House committee must permit its absent committee members or other participants in the committee's hearing to use video conferencing and related technologies in order to participate in the hearing to the same extent as members of the committee and other participants who are present at the site of the meeting. A committee must adopt a rule under which a member who participates in a hearing remotely shall be included in determining the number of members constituting a quorum at the hearing.
[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 890 Introduced in House (IH)]
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116th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. RES. 890
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to permit absent
Members to participate in committee hearings using video conferencing
and related technologies and to establish a remote voting system under
which absent Members may cast votes in the House on motions to suspend
the rules.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 9, 2020
Mr. Swalwell of California (for himself and Mr. Crawford) submitted the
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules
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RESOLUTION
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to permit absent
Members to participate in committee hearings using video conferencing
and related technologies and to establish a remote voting system under
which absent Members may cast votes in the House on motions to suspend
the rules.
Resolved,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This resolution may be cited as the ``Members Operating to Be
Innovative and Link Everyone Resolution'' or the ``MOBILE Resolution''.
SEC. 2. PARTICIPATION OF ABSENT MEMBERS IN COMMITTEE HEARINGS THROUGH
VIDEO CONFERENCING AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES.
(a) Enabling Participation of Absent Members.--Rule XI of the Rules
of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the
following new clause:
``Participation of absent members
``7. Each committee shall permit any member of the committee who is
absent from the site of a hearing convened by the committee, as well as
any other individual who is invited to participate in the hearing and
who is absent from the site of the hearing, to use video conferencing
and related technologies in order to participate in the hearing to the
same extent as members of the committee and other individuals (as the
case may be) who are present at the site of the meeting.''.
(b) Inclusion of Members Participating Remotely in Determination of
Quorum.--Subparagraph (2) of clause 2(h) of rule XI of the Rules of the
House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following
sentence: ``A committee shall adopt a rule under which a member who
participates in a hearing remotely pursuant to clause 7 shall be
included in determining the number of members constituting a quorum at
the hearing for purposes of this subparagraph.''.
SEC. 3. PERMITTING ABSENT MEMBERS TO VOTE REMOTELY ON SUSPENSION
MOTIONS.
Clause 1 of rule XV of the Rules of the House of Representatives is
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(d) The Clerk, Chief Administrative Officer, and Sergeant at Arms
shall work together to develop and implement a secure remote voting
system under which any member who is absent from the floor shall be
permitted to cast a vote remotely on a motion to suspend the rules
under this clause if the vote is taken by electronic device. A member
who casts such a vote using the remote voting system under this
subparagraph shall be treated as present for purposes of determining
the existence of a quorum for considering the motion.''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
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