Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act
- Last Action
- 6/21/2021
Actions
- 2021-06-21Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
- 2021-06-21Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-06-21 (00)
Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act
This bill directs the Federal Communications Commission to require certain online public inspection files to be made available to the public in a machine-readable format that supports automated searching, bulk downloading, aggregation, manipulation, sorting, and analysis.
Online public inspection files (including 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) are files that must be uploaded to the internet by certain television broadcast stations and television systems, AM or FM radio broadcast stations, cable operators, direct broadcast satellite service providers, or satellite digital audio radio service providers.
Subjects
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
- Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Government information and archives
- Internet, web applications, social media
- Political advertising
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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