3.0.0 2152 2023-03-08T20:12:35Z 2023-03-08T20:12:35Z Senate S 2021-06-21 117 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2021-06-21T22:10:42Z Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act 117 5897 HR 2021-11-08 Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. Identical bill CRS 2021-06-21 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2021-06-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000570 Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM] Ben Lujan D NM R. N Science, Technology, Communications Administrative law and regulatory procedures Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies Elections, voting, political campaign regulation Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Government information and archives Internet, web applications, social media Political advertising Science, Technology, Communications 00 2021-06-21 Introduced in Senate 2021-08-04T17:21:08Z Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act

This bill directs the Federal Communications Commission to require certain online public inspection files to be made available to the public in a machine-readable format that supports automated searching, bulk downloading, aggregation, manipulation, sorting, and analysis.

Online public inspection files (including political files that contain records of requests to purchase broadcast time by or on behalf of candidates for public office or to communicate a message relating to a political matter of national importance) are files that must be uploaded to the internet by certain television broadcast stations and television systems, AM or FM radio broadcast stations, cable operators, direct broadcast satellite service providers, or satellite digital audio radio service providers.

]]> Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act Display Title Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to direct the Federal Communications Commission to promulgate regulations requiring material in the online public inspection file of a covered entity to be made available in a format that is machine-readable. Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s2152is/xml/BILLS-117s2152is.xml 2021-06-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.