Federal Aviation Administration Engagement and Transparency Act

Federal Aviation Administration Engagement and Transparency Act

This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to conduct a study on the level of responsiveness of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to requests from Members of Congress and the average time frame for responses to the requests.

Further, the FAA must annually brief Congress on (1) the efforts, activities, objectives, and plans of the FAA; and (2) the efforts of the FAA to engage with Congress and the public.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2618 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2618

 To require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a 
study on the response time of the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
  Administration to requests from Members of Congress, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 13, 2023

  Ms. Porter introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a 
study on the response time of the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
  Administration to requests from Members of Congress, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Federal Aviation Administration 
Engagement and Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. GAO STUDY ON FAA RESPONSIVENESS TO CONGRESS.

    (a) GAO Study.--The Comptroller General of the United States shall 
conduct a study on--
            (1) the level of responsiveness of the Administrator of the 
        Federal Aviation Administration to a request for information 
        from a Member of Congress, including a written congressional 
        inquiry and staffing a meeting at the request of such a Member; 
        and
            (2) the average timeframe responses are provided to the 
        requests described in paragraph (1).
    (b) Annual Briefing to Congress.--Section 106 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(u) Annual Briefing to Congress.--The Administrator shall 
annually brief the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation of the Senate on--
            ``(1) the efforts, activities, objectives, and plans of the 
        Administration; and
            ``(2) the efforts of the Administration to engage with 
        Congress and the public.''.
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