To direct the Librarian of Congress to promote the more cost-effective, efficient, and expanded availability of the Annotated Constitution and pocket-part supplements by replacing the hardbound versions with digital versions.

United States119th CongressHR-1234House of Representatives
Updated: Apr 1, 2025

Summary

This bill mandates a significant shift in how the Constitution Annotated and its accompanying supplements are produced and distributed by the Librarian of Congress. It repeals the existing requirement for hardbound versions, instead directing the preparation of digital editions to improve cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and public availability. This transition will ensure that these crucial legal resources are more accessible in the modern era. Specifically, the bill requires a digital decennial revised edition of the Constitution Annotated to be prepared after the October 2031 Supreme Court term and every ten years thereafter. Digital cumulative pocket-part supplements will be produced after the October 2025 Supreme Court term and in subsequent odd-numbered years. All these digital versions will be made continuously available on a public website of the Library of Congress for both Congress and the general public, while also repealing all previous requirements for mandatory hardbound printing.

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  1. Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.

  2. On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1345-1346)

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  3. Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

    House of Representatives

  4. Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.

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