[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 190 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 190

    To repeal the provision added by the Cable Television Consumer 
 Protection and Competition Act of 1992 prohibiting cable systems from 
   retransmitting the signal of a broadcast station without consent.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

 Mr. Frank  of Massachusetts introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To repeal the provision added by the Cable Television Consumer 
 Protection and Competition Act of 1992 prohibiting cable systems from 
   retransmitting the signal of a broadcast station without consent.

    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 ``Cable Television Amendments Act of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF PROVISION RELATING TO RETRANSMISSION CONSENT FOR 
              CABLE SYSTEMS.

    Section 325 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 325) (as 
amended by section 6 of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and 
Competition Act of 1992) is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (b); and
            (2) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections 
        (b) and (c), respectively.

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