Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act
Latest action · Mar 10, 2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 8, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act
This bill directs the Federal Communications Commission to require online public inspection files that must be uploaded to the Internet by television broadcast stations, AM or FM radio broadcast stations, cable operators, direct broadcast satellite service providers, or satellite digital audio radio service providers to be made available to the public in a machine-readable format that supports automated searching, bulk downloading, aggregation, manipulation, and sorting.
Public inspection files include political files that contain records of requests to purchase broadcast time by or on behalf of candidates for public office or to communicate a message relating to a political matter of national importance.
Cosponsors 31
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 8, 2017 to Mar 27, 2017; 29 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-NH | Carol Shea-Porter | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-IA | David Loebsack | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-NJ | Donald Norcross | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-PA | Dwight Evans | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-NC | G. K. Butterfield | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-MD | Jamie Raskin | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-CA | Jerry McNerney | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-KY | John A. Yarmuth | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-MD | John P. Sarbanes | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-CA | Julia Brownley | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-IL | Mike Quigley | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-NY | Paul Tonko | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-CA | Raul Ruiz | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-CA | Ro Khanna | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-CA | Susan A. Davis | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-AZ | Tom O'Halleran | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-MA | William R. Keating | Original | Mar 8, 2017 |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | Mar 16, 2017 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Mar 27, 2017 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Mar 8, 2017 |
| Communications and Technology Subcommittee | Referred Mar 10, 2017 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 10, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
- Mar 8, 2017Introduced in House
- Mar 8, 2017Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 40, March 8, 2017, page H1949.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 4179 | Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act | Reintroduction of | Dec 4, 2015 |
| HR 5016 | Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act | Reintroduced Bill | Nov 12, 2019 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To direct the Federal Communications Commission to promulgate regulations requiring material in the online public inspection file of a covered entity to be made available in a format that is machine-readable.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
- Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Government information and archives
- Internet and video services
- Internet, web applications, social media
- Political advertising
- Science, Technology, Communications
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 8, 2017Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
