[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2592 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2592

    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.


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                    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

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 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.
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