Title: CLEAR Act
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Clarifying Legality and Enforcement Action Reasoning Act or the CLEAR Act
This bill requires the Federal Trade Commission to annually publish a report with certain information about its investigations of unfair or deceptive practices, including the number and disposition of such investigations.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2690 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2690

To amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to require annual reports to 
Congress regarding the status of investigations of unfair or deceptive 
              acts or practices in or affecting commerce.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 20, 2021

 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 Federal Trade Commission Act to require annual reports to 
Congress regarding the status of investigations of unfair or deceptive 
              acts or practices in or affecting commerce.

    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 ``Clarifying Legality and Enforcement 
Action Reasoning Act'' or the ``CLEAR Act''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTING ON THE STATUS OF INVESTIGATIONS.

    Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(o) Report on Investigations.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Commission shall, on an annual 
        basis, transmit a report to Congress on investigations with 
        respect to unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or 
        affecting commerce (within the meaning of subsection (a)(1)), 
        detailing--
                    ``(A) the number of such investigations the 
                Commission has commenced;
                    ``(B) the number of such investigations the 
                Commission has closed with no official agency action;
                    ``(C) the disposition of such investigations, if 
                such investigations have concluded and resulted in 
                official agency action; and
                    ``(D) for each such investigation that was closed 
                with no official agency action, a description 
                sufficient to indicate the legal analysis supporting 
                the Commission's decision not to continue such 
                investigation, and the industry sectors of the entities 
                subject to each such investigation.
            ``(2) Privacy protection.--The description required under 
        paragraph (1)(D) shall not include the identity of the person 
        who is the subject of an investigation or any other information 
        that identifies the person.
            ``(3) FTC website posting.--The Commission shall make the 
        most recent report required under this subsection publicly 
        available on the Commission's website, and maintain such report 
        on such website until the next report is transmitted to 
        Congress.''.
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