[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5109 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5109

To amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to require annual reports to 
Congress regarding the status of investigations of unfair or deceptive 
              acts or practices in or affecting commerce.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 28, 2016

  Mr. Guthrie (for himself and Mr. Burgess) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to require annual reports to 
Congress regarding the status of investigations of unfair or deceptive 
              acts or practices in or affecting commerce.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Clarifying Legality and Enforcement 
Action Reasoning Act'' or the ``CLEAR Act''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTING ON THE STATUS OF INVESTIGATIONS.

    Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(o) Report on Investigations.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Commission shall, on an annual 
        basis, submit a report to Congress on investigations with 
        respect to unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or 
        affecting commerce (within the meaning of subsection (a)(1)), 
        detailing--
                    ``(A) the number of such investigations the 
                Commission has commenced;
                    ``(B) the number of such investigations the 
                Commission has closed with no official agency action;
                    ``(C) the disposition of such investigations, if 
                such investigations have concluded and resulted in 
                official agency action; and
                    ``(D) for each such investigation that was closed 
                with no official agency action, a description 
                sufficient to indicate the legal analysis supporting 
                the Commission's decision not to continue such 
                investigation, and the industry sectors of the entities 
                subject to each such investigation.
            ``(2) Privacy protection.--The description required under 
        paragraph (1)(D) shall not include the identity of the person 
        who is the subject of an investigation or any other information 
        that identifies the person.''.
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