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Digital Coast Act of 2016 [HB-4738]
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Digital Coast Act of 2016
Sponsored by: Rep. Don Young
Referred To The Subcommittee On Water, Power And Oceans. on 03/15/2016
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Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act [HB-4179]
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[Media and Advertising ]
Fair and Clear Campaign Transparency Act This bill directs the Federal Communications Commission to require online public inspection files that must be uploaded to the Internet by television broadcast stations, AM or FM radio broadcast stations, cable operators, direct broadcast satellite service providers, or satellite digital audio radio service providers to be made available to the public in a machine-readable format that supports automated searching, bulk downloading, aggregation, manipulation, and sorting. Public inspection files include political
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Sponsored by: Rep. Yvette Clarke
Referred To The Subcommittee On Communications And Technology. on 12/04/2015
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Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2015 [HB-3805]
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Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2015 This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to require states to evaluate the need for broadband conduit (fiber optic cables that support broadband or wireless facilities for broadband service) as part of any covered highway construction project (a project to construct a new highway or an additional lane or paved shoulder for an existing highway that receives funding under federal-aid highway provisions), in consultation with telecommunications providers. If the evaluation reveals a need in the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Comstock
Referred To The Subcommittee On Highways And Transit. on 10/23/2015
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Reducing Employer Burdens, Unleashing Innovation, and Labor Development Act of 2015 [HB-3682]
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Reducing Employer Burdens, Unleashing Innovation, and Labor Development Act of 2015 This bill expresses the sense of Congress that increasing the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers will strengthen the national economy. Investing in America's Workforce Act The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 is amended to require state or local workforce investment systems to use youth activities funds allocated to a local area for programs that provide training. The Internal Revenue Code is amended to: (1) extend through 2016 the tax credit for increasing research
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Sponsored by: Rep. Brett Guthrie
Referred To The Subcommittee On Research And Technology. on 09/30/2016
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GO PACK Act of 2015 Granting Our People the Ability to Cheer Kickoff Act of 2015 [HB-3496]
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GO PACK Act of 2015 Granting Our People the Ability to Cheer Kickoff Act of 2015 Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require a cable operator or satellite carrier to provide to certain subscribers in specified Wisconsin counties who elect to receive a television network: (1) retransmission of the signal of any local network station that such operator or carrier is otherwise required to retransmit; (2) an in-state, adjacent-market network station retransmission; or (3) both such retransmissions. Subjects satellite carriers to such requirements
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Duffy
Referred To The Subcommittee On Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet. on 10/05/2015
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National Infrastructure Development Bank Act of 2015 [HB-3337]
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National Infrastructure Development Bank Act of 2015 Establishes the National Infrastructure Development Bank as a wholly owned government corporation. Makes the Bank's Board of Directors responsible for monitoring and overseeing energy, environmental, telecommunications, and transportation infrastructure projects. Authorizes the Board to: (1) make senior and subordinated direct loans and loan guarantees to assist in the financing or refinancing of an infrastructure project, (2) issue public benefit bonds and provide financing to infrastructure
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Energy And Power. on 07/31/2015
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Rural Broadband Initiative Act [HB-3152]
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Rural Broadband Initiative Act This bill amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to establish an Office of Rural Broadband Initiatives at the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and and an Under Secretary for Rural Broadband Initiatives appointed by the President to head the Office. The Under Secretary is responsible for administering all rural broadband-related grant and loan programs previously administered by the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service and must: conduct nationwide outreach to rural areas; foster the development of a comprehensive
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Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Nolan
Referred To The Subcommittee On Commodity Exchanges, Energy, And Credit. on 08/06/2015
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To exempt application of JSA attribution rule in case of existing agreements. [HB-3148]
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To exempt application of JSA attribution rule in case of existing agreements. This bill exempts broadcast television stations from the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) amended joint sales agreement (JSA) rules if the stations were parties to a JSA that was in effect on the effective date of the amendment adopted by the FCC on March 31, 2014. Under the FCC's amended rule, a television station that sells more than 15% of the weekly advertising time of another station in the same market is attributed an ownership interest subject to ownership
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Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Tonko
Referred To The Subcommittee On Communications And Technology. on 07/24/2015
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Rural Spectrum Accessibility Act of 2015 [HB-3103]
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Rural Spectrum Accessibility Act of 2015 Directs the Federal Communications Commission to establish a program under which a wireless carrier receiving a license under specified provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 may partition or disaggregate the license in order to make unused spectrum available to small carriers or carriers to serve certain rural areas. Defines "small carrier" as a carrier with not more than 1,500 employees as calculated under regulatory standards used by the Small Business Administration to determine the number of individuals
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Loebsack
Referred To The Subcommittee On Communications And Technology. on 07/17/2015
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GROW AMERICA Act Generating Renewal, Opportunity, and Work with Accelerated Mobility, Efficiency, and Rebuilding of Infrastructure and Communities throughout America Act [HB-3064]
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GROW AMERICA Act Generating Renewal, Opportunity, and Work with Accelerated Mobility, Efficiency, and Rebuilding of Infrastructure and Communities throughout America Act Prescribes requirements for environmental reviews with respect to state and federal agency engagement, obstruction of navigation, historic sites, categorical exclusion of multimodal projects from environmental review, and creation in the Department of Transportation (DOT) of an Interagency Infrastructure Permitting Improvement Center. Directs DOT to establish a multimodal freight
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Sponsored by: Rep. Eleanor Norton
Referred To The Subcommittee On Research And Technology. on 08/18/2015
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To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to limit the authority of the Federal Communications Commission over providers of broadband Internet access service. [HB-279]
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To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to limit the authority of the Federal Communications Commission over providers of broadband Internet access service. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to exclude from the definition of "common carrier" (regulated by the Federal Communications Commission [FCC] under the common carrier regulatory authority provided under title II of such Act) a provider of an information service or of advanced telecommunications capability when engaged in the provision of such service or capability. Classifies broadband
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Latta
Referred To The Subcommittee On Communications And Technology. on 01/16/2015
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NCAA Act National Collegiate Athletics Accountability Act [HB-2731]
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NCAA Act National Collegiate Athletics Accountability Act This bill amends title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require program participation agreements to prohibit an institution with an intercollegiate athletic program from membership in a nonprofit athletic association unless the association: requires annual baseline concussion testing prior to a student athlete's participation in contact sports; requires certain due process procedures for students and institutions prior to enforcing a remedy for any infraction; requires athletically
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Sponsored by: Rep. Bobby Rush
Referred To The Subcommittee On Higher Education And Workforce Training. on 11/16/2015
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GROW AMERICA Act Generating Renewal, Opportunity, and Work with Accelerated Mobility, Efficiency, and Rebuilding of Infrastructure and Communities throughout America Act [HB-2410]
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GROW AMERICA Act Generating Renewal, Opportunity, and Work with Accelerated Mobility, Efficiency, and Rebuilding of Infrastructure and Communities throughout America Act Prescribes requirements for environmental reviews with respect to state and federal agency engagement, obstruction of navigation, historic sites, categorical exclusion of multimodal projects from environmental review, and creation in the Department of Transportation (DOT) of an Interagency Infrastructure Permitting Improvement Center. Directs DOT to establish a multimodal freight
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gregory Meeks
Referred To The Subcommittee On Research And Technology. on 08/18/2015
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SWIC Enhancement Act State Wide Interoperable Communications Enhancement Act [HB-2206]
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SWIC Enhancement Act State Wide Interoperable Communications Enhancement Act (Sec. 2) Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require a state to include in its application for State Homeland Security Grant Program funding a certification: (1) that the governor of the state has designated a Statewide Interoperability Coordinator, or (2) indicating that the state is performing the functions of such a Coordinator in another manner and identifying the primary point of contact for performance of such functions. Sets forth as such Coordinator's functions:
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Sponsored by: Sen. Martha McSally
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs. on 07/28/2015
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Keeping Our Campaigns Honest Act of 2015 [HB-2125]
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[Elections ]
[Media and Advertising ]
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Keeping Our Campaigns Honest Act of 2015 Directs the Federal Communications Commission to revise its sponsorship identification rules to require the disclosure announcements required for broadcast matter or origination cablecasting matter that is political or that involves the discussion of a controversial issue of public importance to include the names of significant donors to the person whose identity is required to be disclosed in such an announcement.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Communications And Technology. on 05/01/2015
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Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2015 [HB-2066]
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[Medicare and Medicaid ]
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[Public Health ]
[Social Security ]
Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2015 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSAct) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in order to provide a positive incentive for certain hospitals to lower their excess readmission ratios for inpatient services, to make an additional payment to a hospital in such proportion that provides for a sharing of the savings from better-than-expected performance between the hospital and the Medicare program. Authorizes the Secretary, in the case of a state that has amended its Medicaid
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Sponsored by: Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/12/2015
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Protecting the Rights of Musicians Act [HB-1999]
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Protecting the Rights of Musicians Act Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to deny a television broadcast station the right to consent to retransmissions of the station's signal by cable systems or other multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) if the licensee of such station is also the licensee of an AM or FM radio broadcast station that has transmitted a sound recording over such radio station without providing compensation for all programming carried over the signal. (Under current law, retransmission consent requirements prohibit
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Sponsored by: Sen. Marsha Blackburn
Referred To The Subcommittee On Communications And Technology. on 04/24/2015
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Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act of 2015 [HB-1738]
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Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act of 2015 Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to update, modernize, and implement the national integrated public alert and warning system, including by: (1) establishing or adapting common alerting and warning protocols, standards, terminology, and operating procedures; (2) including the capability to adapt the dissemination of information and the content of communications on the basis of geographic location, risks, and multiple communications
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gus Bilirakis
Reported (amended) By The Committee On Homeland Security. H. Rept. 114-854, Part I. on 12/08/2016
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Fair Play Fair Pay Act of 2015 [HB-1733]
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Fair Play Fair Pay Act of 2015 Amends federal copyright law to extend a sound recording copyright owner's rights to include the exclusive right to perform or authorize the performance of the recording publicly by means of any audio transmission, thereby requiring terrestrial AM/FM broadcast radio stations that play copyrighted sound recordings to pay royalties for the non-digital audio transmissions of the recordings. (Currently, sound recording copyright owners have a performance right that applies only to digital transmissions by cable, satellite,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Lieu
Referred To The Subcommittee On Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet. on 05/15/2015
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Federal Spectrum Incentive Act of 2015 [HB-1641]
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Federal Spectrum Incentive Act of 2015 Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to allow federal entities that utilize government station licenses to participate in the incentive auction program under which licensees of electromagnetic spectrum voluntarily relinquish their spectrum rights in order for such spectrum to be auctioned for a repurposed commercial use in exchange for a percentage of the auction proceeds. Permits such federal entities, instead of being reimbursed for the costs of sharing frequencies
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Sponsored by: Rep. Anna Eshoo
Subcommittee Consideration And Mark-up Session Held. on 12/02/2015