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.

Bill: 114-hr-2592
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kinzinger, Adam [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2015-06-01
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

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Latest action: action_date: 2016-04-28
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 30 - 22.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-06-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from adopting orders, decisions, reports, or actions by vote of the FCC unless the chairman causes the text to be published on the FCC's website not later than: (1) 24 hours after such text is&nbsp;circulated for review by the commissioners, or (2)&nbsp;21 days before the vote. </p> <p>Exempts from such text publication requirements a portion of a document 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.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2592 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 1, 2015 Mr. Kinzinger of Illinois (for himself and Mr. Allen ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 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.

1. 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: (p) (1) The Commission may not adopt any order, decision, report, or action by vote of the Commission, unless the Chairman causes the Commission to publish on the Internet website of the Commission the text of such order, decision, report, or action— (A) not later than 24 hours after the time such text is placed on circulation for review by the Commissioners; or (B) not later 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) This subsection shall not apply to a portion of any order, decision, report, or action if the publishing of such portion is likely to lead to a result described in a paragraph of section 552b(c) of title 5, United States Code. . (b) Effective date The amendment made by this section shall apply with respect to an order, decision, report, or action the text of which is placed on circulation after the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.