Title: Federal Communications Commission Transparency Act
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Federal Communications Commission Transparency Act
This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from adopting any order, decision, report, or action by vote at a meeting unless it publishes on its website the text of such order, decision, report, or action not later than 21 days before the vote is to occur, except when an emergency requires publication less than 21 days before the vote. The bill also allows an exemption from the publication requirement if publication may result in the disclosure of certain confidential information.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6422 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6422

    To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal 
 Communications Commission to publish on the website of the Commission 
              documents to be voted on by the Commission.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2018

  Mr. Kinzinger (for himself, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Long, and Mr. Guthrie) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal 
 Communications Commission to publish on the website of the Commission 
              documents to be voted on by the Commission.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Communications Commission 
Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. PUBLICATION OF DOCUMENTS IN ADVANCE OF FCC VOTING.

    (a) In General.--Section 4 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 154) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(o)(1) The Commission may not adopt any order, decision, report, 
or action by vote of the Commission at a meeting of the Commission, 
unless the Chairman causes to be published on the internet website of 
the Commission the text of such order, decision, report, or action not 
later than 21 days before the date on which the vote is to occur, 
except when the Chairman determines that emergency or other exigent 
circumstances require publication less than 21 days before the date on 
which the vote is to occur.
    ``(2) The text published pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be the 
text intended at the time of the publishing to be subject to a vote. 
Nothing in this subsection may be construed to prevent the Commission 
from making changes to the text after the publishing.
    ``(3) If the Chairman determines that publication of all or a 
portion of an order, decision, report, or action is likely to lead to a 
result described in a paragraph of section 552b(c) of title 5, United 
States Code, the Chairman may exempt such order, decision, report, or 
action, or such portion, as the case may be, from the publication 
requirements of this subsection.
    ``(4) This subsection does not--
            ``(A) create any rights or remedies; or
            ``(B) provide a basis for challenging any order, decision, 
        report, or action adopted by the Commission.
    ``(5) In this subsection, the term `meeting' means a meeting within 
the meaning of section 5(d).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
beginning on the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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