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The bill trades fewer disruptive, late-floor member-conduct motions and clearer scheduling for a higher threshold to trigger immediate conduct proceedings, slowing the ability to raise and address misconduct quickly.
House members and federal employees will face fewer last-minute, surprise member-conduct privilege motions and clearer floor scheduling because the rules raise the cosponsor threshold and remove the oral announcement requirement, reducing disruptive interruptions to proceedings.
Taxpayers, congressional staff, and Members of Congress may experience slower accountability and delayed responses to misconduct allegations because Majority/Minority Leaders and individual Members cannot quickly raise conduct issues unless they secure the required cosponsors (raising the threshold to 20%).
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Raises the cosponsor and timing requirements for House floor "questions of privilege" about member conduct, limiting consideration unless one-fifth of the House supports them.
Introduced February 3, 2026 by Dustin Johnson · Last progress February 3, 2026
Limits the ability of Members to bring floor "questions of privilege" about another Member’s conduct for the rest of the 119th Congress by requiring higher cosponsor support and restricting oral announcements. It prevents the House Chair from entertaining such conduct-related privilege resolutions unless they have at least one-fifth of the House as cosponsors or have maintained that level of cosponsorship for a full legislative day after introduction, and it removes the need for an oral announcement of the resolution’s form.