House Speaker Paul Ryan has proposed new fines and ethics violations for taking photos or video from the floor of the chamber, a response to a 25-hour sit-in that Democrats streamed live over Facebook and Periscope in June.

According to Bloomberg, which first reported the proposed penalties, the first violation would be met with a $500 fine, docked from a member's paycheck. Subsequent violations would draw fines of $2,500 each. And conduct deemed disorderly or disruptive, including attempts to block the well at the front of the chamber, could be referred to the Committee on Ethics, potentially leading to sanctions.

"These changes will help ensure that order and decorum are preserved in the House of Representatives so lawmakers can do the people's work," AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for Ryan, R-Wisc., said in a statement.

Taking photos or video from the floor was already prohibited, but members were almost never cited for the offense. During the June sit-in , dozens of members occupied the front of the House chamber and nearly 170 of the Democratic caucus' 188 members spoke over the course of 25 hours. After members, led by civil rights icon John Lewis, D-Ga., crowded the well, the Republican presiding over the session called for order and then gaveled the session in recess, ending the C-SPAN live feed of the session. In response, several members began broadcasting the hours of speeches via social media.

Republicans called at the time for Democrats to be punished for their flagrant flouting of the House's strict decorum guidelines, but the new rules package, if passed, won't be retroactive. Democrats, whose sit-in was nominally aimed at protesting lack of progress on gun-control legislation, were furious at the proposed changes and accused Republicans of doing the bidding of the National Rifle Association.

"House Republicans continue to act as the handmaidens of the gun lobby refusing to pass sensible, bipartisan legislation to expand background checks and keep guns out of the hands of terrorists," a spokesman for Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said in a statement Tuesday. "Speaker Ryan can continue to shamefully ignore the calls for action from the American people but House Democrats will never stop speaking out against the daily tragedy of gun violence in this country."

And Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., vowed not to let the new rules stop him from broadcasting Democrats' efforts to get attention on issues Republicans would rather ignore.

"Dear @HouseGOP, you can fine me & @HouseDemocrats all the way to bankruptcy for #gunviolence sit-in, but we will always speak for victims," Swalwell, one of the members who broadcast the protest, said in a tweet.