[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3258 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3258

  To eliminate the March 1999 sunset of consumer price protections on 
                      cable programming services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 1998

  Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Shays, Mr. Boucher, Mr. Bereuter, Mr. 
Moran of Virginia, Mr. McHugh, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Miller of California, 
   Mr. Weygand, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, Mr. Frank of 
 Massachusetts, Mr. Brown of California, Mr. Gejdenson, Mr. Gutierrez, 
Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Neal of Massachusetts, Mr. LaFalce, Mr. Tierney, Mrs. 
     Maloney of New York, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Yates, and Mr. Coyne) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To eliminate the March 1999 sunset of consumer price protections on 
                      cable programming services.

    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 Consumer Protection Act of 
1998''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF CONSUMER PRICE PROTECTIONS.

    Section 623(c) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 543(c)) 
is amended by striking paragraph (4).
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