HR 1234
Passed a chamber
Replaces the printed Annotated Constitution and its pocket-part supplements with digital editions published on a Library of Congress website.
Official title: 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.
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
12-FEB-2025
Referred
12-FEB-2025
Passed
31-MAR-2025
Senate
Received
01-APR-2025
- Requires the Librarian of Congress to prepare digital decennial editions of the Constitution Annotated, starting with the October 2031 term of the Supreme Court and every tenth term after, in place of hardbound editions.
- Requires digital cumulative pocket-part supplements after the October 2025 term and after later October terms that begin in an odd-numbered year and do not end in 1, in place of hardbound supplements.
- Makes the digital editions available on a public Library of Congress website and requires the Librarian to keep them available to Congress and the public.
- Repeals the requirement that additional printed copies be produced under a concurrent resolution.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (12-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 31-MAR-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Committee on House Administration (House)
- Rules and Administration Committee (Senate)
Congress
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2 Democrats
1 Republican