To direct the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to provide to the appropriate committees of Congress advance notice of certain meeting announcements.

Bill: 116-hr-8853
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Graves, Garret [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2020-12-03
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Advisory bodies

Aviation and airports

Congressional oversight

Government information and archives
Latest action: action_date: 2020-12-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-12-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill directs the Department of Transportation or the Federal Aviation Administration to provide Congress with advance notice of certain meeting announcements at least three business days prior to such announcements.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8853 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 3, 2020 Mr. Graves of Louisiana (for himself and Mr. Larsen of Washington ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To direct the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to provide to the appropriate committees of Congress advance notice of certain meeting announcements.

1. Congressional notification of certain meeting announcements Section 106(p) of title 49, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (9); and (2) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following: (8) Congressional notification requirement (A) In general The Secretary or the Administrator shall provide to the appropriate committees of Congress notice of an announcement regarding a meeting of the Council, the Air Traffic Services Committee, any advisory committee established by the Secretary or Administrator, or any rulemaking committee referred to in paragraph (5) at least 3 full business days before the announcement of any such meeting is published in the Federal Register. (B) Definition of appropriate committees of Congress In this paragraph, the term appropriate committees of Congress means the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate. .