---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 46a"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "46a"
heading: "Concurrent resolution essential to authorize investigations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/46a"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Trade Commission"
---

# §46a. Concurrent resolution essential to authorize investigations


After June 16, 1933, no new investigations shall be initiated by the Commission as the result of a legislative resolution, except the same be a concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress.


## Source credit

(June 16, 1933, ch. 101, § 1, 48 Stat. 291.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Trade Commission Act which comprises this subchapter.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of Federal Trade Commission, with certain exceptions, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 8 of 1950, § 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1264, set out under section 41 of this title.