; purposes (a) Short Title This Act may be cited as the Searchable Legislation Act of 2018 . (b) Purposes The purposes of this Act are as follows: (1) To establish nonproprietary, machine-readable data standards for the creation, transmission, and publication of Congressional information. (2) To encourage the uniform use of nonproprietary, machine-readable data standards, including searchable electronic formats, for Congressional information by Congress and its support agencies and offices. (3) To ensure that Congressional information, especially bills, resolutions, orders, and votes, can be freely downloaded in bulk and electronically searched. 2. Requiring searchable electronic formats for Congressional documents (a) Searchable Electronic Formats (1) In general Chapter 2 of title 1, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 107 the following new section: 107a. Searchable electronic formats To the greatest extent practicable, Congress shall ensure that all bills, resolutions, orders, and other documents of Congress, and all records of votes cast in Congress and committees of Congress, are created, transmitted, and published in searchable electronic formats, consistent with data standards recommended by such advisory bodies as Congress may establish. . (2) Clerical amendment The table of sections for chapter 2 of title 1, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 107 the following new item: 107a. Searchable electronic formats. . (b) Effective Date The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress and each succeeding Congress. 3. Congressional data task force (a) Establishment Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate, acting jointly, shall establish an advisory body to be known as the Congressional Data Task Force (hereafter referred to as the Task Force ). (b) Duties (1) Recommendation of data standards The Task