Federal Communications Commission Transparency Act

Bill: 115-hr-6422
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kinzinger, Adam [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2018-07-18
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

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Latest action: action_date: 2018-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-07-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Federal Communications Commission Transparency Act</b></p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6422 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 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. Short title This Act may be cited as the Federal Communications Commission Transparency Act . 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.