[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2310 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2310

To require the United States Trade Representative to permit the public 
    to submit comments on trade agreement negotiations through the 
                               Internet.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 16, 2018

  Mr. Tester introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the United States Trade Representative to permit the public 
    to submit comments on trade agreement negotiations through the 
                               Internet.

    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 and Public Input 
Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC COMMENTS ON TRADE NEGOTIATIONS.

    Section 105(a)(1) of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities 
and Accountability Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4204(a)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``; and'' and 
        inserting a semicolon;
            (2) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) at least 30 calendar days before initiating 
                negotiations with a country, publish on a publicly 
                available Internet website of the Office of the United 
                States Trade Representative an easily accessible 
                portal--
                            ``(i) that allows the public to 
                        electronically submit comments on the 
                        negotiations for the duration of the 
                        negotiations; and
                            ``(ii) which shall be in addition to 
                        requests for comments issued by the United 
                        States Trade Representative through notice in 
                        the Federal Register.''.
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