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.

I 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. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DECEMBER 3, 2020 Mr. GRAVES of Louisiana (for himself and Mr. LARSEN of Washington) intro- duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Trans- portation and Infrastructure A BILL To direct the Secretary of Transportation and the Adminis- trator 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 Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF CERTAIN 3 MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS. 4 Section 106(p) of title 49, United States Code, is 5 amended— 6 (1) by redesignating paragraph (8) as para- 7 graph (9); and 8 VerDate Sep 11 2014 20:20 Dec 15, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H8853.IH H8853 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 8853 IH (2) by inserting after paragraph (7) the fol- 1 lowing: 2 ‘‘(8) CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION REQUIRE- 3 MENT.— 4 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary or the 5 Administrator shall provide to the appropriate 6 committees of Congress notice of an announce- 7 ment regarding a meeting of the Council, the 8 Air Traffic Services Committee, any advisory 9 committee established by the Secretary or Ad- 10 ministrator, or any rulemaking committee re- 11 ferred to in paragraph (5) at least 3 full busi- 12 ness days before the announcement of any such 13 meeting is published in the Federal Register. 14 ‘‘(B) DEFINITION OF APPROPRIATE COM- 15 MITTEES OF CONGRESS.—In this paragraph, 16 the term ‘appropriate committees of Congress’ 17 means the Committee on Transportation and 18 Infrastructure of the House of Representatives 19 and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 20 Transportation of the Senate.’’. 21 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 20:20 Dec 15, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H8853.IH H8853 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS