[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4305 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4305

 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require telephone carriers 
 to completely and accurately itemize charges and taxes collected with 
                            telephone bills.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 1998

  Ms. Rivers introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require telephone carriers 
 to completely and accurately itemize charges and taxes collected with 
                            telephone bills.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ACCURATE TELEPHONE BILLING REQUIRED.

    Section 201 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 201) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Accurate Billing Required.--Notwithstanding section 2(b), the 
Commission shall prescribe regulations to require common carriers to 
provide to its customers a complete and accurate itemization of all 
charges, fees, and taxes collected with any bill for telephone toll 
service or telephone exchange service. Such itemization shall include 
the amount collected for purposes of making contributions for Federal 
and State support of universal service. Such regulations shall require, 
at such interval as the Commission may prescribe, a chart or other 
description of the amounts collected by the carrier and the purposes 
for which such amounts are expended, and a statement of the extent to 
which the amounts collected are required by other authorities or are 
determined by the carrier. The Commission may not forbear from the 
applying the requirements of this section or such regulations under 
section 10 of this Act.''.
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