Title: Federal Trade Commission Transparency Act
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Federal Trade Commission Transparency Act
This bill prohibits the Federal Trade 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 30 days before the vote is to occur (except when an emergency requires publication less than 30 days before the vote). The bill allows an exemption from this publication requirement if it would result in the disclosure of certain confidential information.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4564 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4564

To amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to require the Federal Trade 
Commission to publish on the website of the Commission documents to be 
          voted on by the Commission, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 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 the Federal Trade 
Commission to publish on the website of the Commission documents to be 
          voted on by the Commission, and for other purposes.

    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 Trade Commission 
Transparency Act''.

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

    (a) Amendment.--Section 18 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 
U.S.C. 57a) is amended by inserting at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(k)(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 website of the 
Commission the text of such order, decision, report, or action not 
later than 30 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 30 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.''.
    (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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