[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8853 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8853

To direct the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the 
     Federal Aviation Administration to provide to the appropriate 
committees of Congress advance notice of certain meeting announcements.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 3, 2020

  Mr. Graves of Louisiana (for himself and Mr. Larsen of Washington) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the 
     Federal Aviation Administration to provide to the appropriate 
committees of Congress advance notice of certain meeting announcements.

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

SECTION 1. CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF CERTAIN MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS.

    Section 106(p) of title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (9); and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
            ``(8) Congressional notification requirement.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary or the 
                Administrator shall provide to the appropriate 
                committees of Congress notice of an announcement 
                regarding a meeting of the Council, the Air Traffic 
                Services Committee, any advisory committee established 
                by the Secretary or Administrator, or any rulemaking 
                committee referred to in paragraph (5) at least 3 full 
                business days before the announcement of any such 
                meeting is published in the Federal Register.
                    ``(B) Definition of appropriate committees of 
                congress.--In this paragraph, the term `appropriate 
                committees of Congress' means the Committee on 
                Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
                Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
                and Transportation of the Senate.''.
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