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This Resolution amends existing House Rules to enhance public access to legislative proceedings through webcasting. Specifically, it modifies House Rule 9-5-8 to ensure that live audio and video streams of house standing committee proceedings are accessible on the legislature's website, with archives of these streams to be made publicly available for five years following the adjournment of the relevant session, starting no later than the first session of the fifty-third legislature and contingent on financial capability. It also amends House Rule 23-8-1 to mandate live audio and video streaming of the house floor proceedings, detailing specific conditions for when and how these streams should be presented, including provisions for archiving them for five years under similar conditions as committee proceedings. Both rules will include a notice stating the streams are for public benefit, prohibiting political use, and clarifying they are not official records.