Title: To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require identification and description on the website of the Federal Communications Commission of items to be decided on authority delegated by the Commission.
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require identification and description on the website of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of items the FCC has delegated to commissioner panels, employee boards, or individual commissioners or employees, unless the publication is likely to lead to the disclosure of certain classified national defense or foreign policy matters, internal personnel practices, trade secrets, personal information, investigatory records for law enforcement, or other deliberation information exempt from disclosure under federal administrative procedure laws.
The bill requires such identification and description be published on the FCC website at least 48 hours before an order, decision, report, or action is made or taken pursuant to such a delegation of authority by the FCC.
The bill does not apply to an order, decision, report, or action that: (1) does not receive a delegated authority number, (2) is delegated to an administrative law judge, or (3) is taken to address an immediate threat to health or safety that constitutes an emergency requiring an expedited response from the FCC.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3289 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3289

 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require identification and 
description on the website of the Federal Communications Commission of 
     items to be decided on authority delegated by the Commission.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2017

  Mr. Latta 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 identification and 
description on the website of the Federal Communications Commission of 
     items to be decided on authority delegated by the Commission.

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

SECTION 1. IDENTIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF ITEMS TO BE DECIDED ON 
              AUTHORITY DELEGATED BY THE COMMISSION.

    (a) In General.--Section 5(c) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 155(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(10) Not later than 48 hours before the time when an order, 
decision, report, or action is made or taken pursuant to delegation 
under paragraph (1), such order, decision, report, or action shall be 
identified and briefly described on the Internet website of the 
Commission, unless the authority to which the delegation is made for 
good cause finds that such identification and description are likely to 
lead to a result described in a paragraph of section 552b(c) of title 
5, United States Code. This paragraph shall not apply with respect to 
an order, decision, report, or action that--
            ``(A) does not receive a delegated authority number 
        pursuant to the procedures of the Commission;
            ``(B) is made or taken on authority delegated to an 
        administrative law judge; or
            ``(C) is made or taken to address an immediate threat to 
        health or safety that constitutes an emergency requiring an 
        expedited response from the Commission.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
with respect to an order, decision, report, or action made or taken 
after the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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