The House Judiciary Committee and SOPA (H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act)
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), H.R. 3261, will be "marked up" in the House Judiciary Committee on December 15. This means that the committee will consider amendments and vote on a final version. If the bill passes, it will be "reported out of committee" and ready for consideration by the full House of Representatives (the "Committee of the Whole.")
It is customary in a markup for the chairman to introduce a "Chairman's Mark," a refined version of the introduced bill that contains any technical changes (and in some cases substantive changes) that the chairman wants included. This is the first amendment considered by the committee, and will be the version that gets "marked up" with subsequent amendments. Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith made his mark public on Monday, (language here and an in-depth discussion at BNA.)
See the map below for more information on the members of the Judiciary Committee and the location of their districts. Note that those with a gold ring have signed on as co-sponsors and can be expected to support the bill. Importantly, these include the most senior committee members of both parties -- the chairman, Lamar Smith (sponsor of the bill) and the Ranking Minority member, John Conyers.
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