[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 829 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 829

  To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to regulate the length and 
    certain other aspects of television commercials authorized by a 
                          political candidate.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               April 27 (legislative day, April 19), 1993

  Mr. Dorgan 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 amend the Communications Act of 1934 to regulate the length and 
    certain other aspects of television commercials authorized by a 
                          political candidate.

    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 ``Campaign Advertising Accountability 
Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. POLITICAL ADVERTISING REQUIREMENTS.

    Section 315 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 315) is 
amended by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and 
(e), respectively, and by inserting immediately after subsection (b) 
the following new subsection:
    ``(c) If any legally qualified candidate for any Federal elective 
office (or an authorized committee of any such candidate) uses a 
broadcast station to broadcast a political advertising communication 
during any period to which the lowest unit charge requirement of 
subsection (b)(1) applies, such communication shall be at least 5 
minutes in length. For no less than 75 percent of the length of the 
communication, an unobscured full face picture of the candidate, 
occupying no less than 40 percent of the television safe screen area, 
shall be displayed.''.

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