Protecting Community Television Act

Protecting Community Television Act

This bill revises the definition of a franchise fee that is paid by a cable operator or cable subscriber to encompass only a tax, fee, or other monetary assessment that is imposed by a franchising authority or other governmental entity.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5659 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5659

  To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to modify the definition of 
                 franchise fee, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 21, 2020

 Ms. Eshoo (for herself, Mr. Welch, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Neal, Mr. Engel, 
   Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Cox of California, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Speier, Mr. 
Schiff, Ms. Gabbard, Ms. Meng, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Lynch, 
Mr. Raskin, Mr. Trone, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Pappas, Ms. Moore, Ms. Kuster 
of New Hampshire, and Mrs. Trahan) introduced the following bill; which 
          was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to modify the definition of 
                 franchise fee, 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 ``Protecting Community Television 
Act''.

SEC. 2. MODIFYING THE DEFINITION OF FRANCHISE FEE.

    Section 622(g)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
542(g)(1)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``includes'' and inserting ``means''; and
            (2) by inserting ``other monetary'' before ``assessment''.
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