[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1556 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1556

  To require commercial television stations to maintain, and provide 
 copies of, commercials and program promotions, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             October 18 (legislative day, October 13), 1993

   Mr. Levin 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 require commercial television stations to maintain, and provide 
 copies of, commercials and program promotions, 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. MAINTENANCE OF COMMERCIALS AND PROGRAM PROMOTIONS.

    The Federal Communications Commission shall prescribe a regulation 
requiring each commercial television broadcast station licensee and 
cable operator--
            (1) to maintain a copy of any commercial or program 
        promotion for a period of 30 days following its broadcast or 
        transmission;
            (2) to provide to any person, upon timely request, a video 
        copy of any commercial or program promotion, subject to the 
        payment of a reasonable charge for the cost of duplication;
            (3) to maintain a copy of each complaint, including any 
        video which contains the subject of such complaint it receives, 
        regarding violent commercials or program promotions for a 
        period of 12 months following the receipt of such complaint;
            (4) to compile and maintain a record of each such complaint 
        referred to in paragraph (3) and the number of such complaints 
        received during the preceding 12 months; and
            (5) to make a copy of the material compiled pursuant to 
        paragraphs (3) and (4) available, upon a written request, to 
        the public.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The regulation under section 1 shall be published for comment not 
later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

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