Ending Mobile and Broadband Welfare Act of 2015

Ending Mobile and Broadband Welfare Act of 2015

Prohibits a commercial mobile service or Internet access service provider from receiving universal service support for the provision of such service through the Federal Communications Commission's Lifeline program, which provides discounts on monthly telephone service to qualifying low-income consumers.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1621 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1621

To prohibit universal service support of commercial mobile service and 
         Internet access service through the Lifeline program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 18, 2015

  Mr. Vitter introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit universal service support of commercial mobile service and 
         Internet access service through the Lifeline program.

    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 ``Ending Mobile and Broadband Welfare 
Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON LIFELINE SUPPORT FOR COMMERCIAL MOBILE SERVICE 
              AND INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--A provider of commercial mobile service or 
Internet access service may not receive universal service support under 
sections 214(e) and 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
214(e) and 254), or under any other provision of law, for the provision 
of such service through the Lifeline program of the Federal 
Communications Commission.
    (b) Commercial Mobile Service Defined.--In this section, the term 
``commercial mobile service'' has the meaning given the term in section 
332(d)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 332(d)(1)).
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