Federal Trade Commission Transparency Act

Bill: 117-hr-4564
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2021-07-20
Policy area: Commerce
Latest action: action_date: 2021-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-07-20
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Federal Trade Commission Transparency Act</b></p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4564 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 20, 2021 Mr. Guthrie introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Federal Trade Commission Transparency Act . 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.