To amend section 1464 of title 18, United States Code, to provide for the punishment of certain profane broadcasts, and for other purposes.

Amends the Federal criminal code provision prohibiting the broadcasting of obscene, indecent, or profane language to specify profane words.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3687 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3687

 To amend section 1464 of title 18, United States Code, to provide for 
 the punishment of certain profane broadcasts, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 8, 2003

 Mr. Ose (for himself and Mr. Smith of Texas) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 1464 of title 18, United States Code, to provide for 
 the punishment of certain profane broadcasts, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1464 of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a)'' before ``Whoever''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) As used in this section, the term `profane', used with 
respect to language, includes the words `shit', `piss', `fuck', `cunt', 
`asshole', and the phrases `cock sucker', `mother fucker', and `ass 
hole', compound use (including hyphenated compounds) of such words and 
phrases with each other or with other words or phrases, and other 
grammatical forms of such words and phrases (including verb, adjective, 
gerund, participle, and infinitive forms).''.
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