[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1381 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1381

To require the President to make the text of trade agreements available 
   to the public in order for those agreements to receive expedited 
                      consideration from Congress.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 19, 2015

Ms. Warren (for herself and Mr. Manchin) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the President to make the text of trade agreements available 
   to the public in order for those agreements to receive expedited 
                      consideration from Congress.

    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 ``Trade Transparency Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF TEXT OF TRADE AGREEMENTS.

    (a) In General.--Unless the President, not later than 60 days 
before the date of the enactment of an Act to provide the President 
with trade promotion authority, makes available to the public the 
scrubbed bracketed text of a trade agreement, the expedited procedures 
for the consideration of implementing bills under that Act shall not 
apply to the implementing bill submitted to Congress with respect to 
that agreement.
    (b) Effect of Later Enacted Law.--Federal statutory law adopted 
after the date of the enactment of this Act is subject to this Act 
unless such law explicitly excludes such application by reference to 
this Act.
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