[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4802 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 4802

 To ensure that digital data services are made widely available to the 
                            American people.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 10, 1998

  Mr. Tauzin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that digital data services are made widely available to the 
                            American people.

    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 ``Digital Data Services Act of 1998''.

SEC. 2. DIGITAL DATA SERVICES.

    Section 336 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 336) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(g) Low-Power Television.--
            ``(1) Authorized uses.--Notwithstanding any other provision 
        of law, any low-power television station licensed by the 
        Commission may, at its option, utilize its authorized spectrum 
        to provide any digital data services to those members of the 
        public who choose to subscribe to or otherwise purchase such 
        services. Such services may include (but are not limited to) 
        digitally based interactive broadcast service; and wireless 
        Internet access, whether one or two way, portable or fixed, or 
        connected to the Internet via the interactive video and data 
        services (IVDS) band or otherwise.
            ``(2) Notice of use.--A lower-power television station may 
        provide the service authorized by this section upon filing 
        notice with the Commission, except that the Commission may 
        develop a form for the provision of such notice and, upon 
        promulgation of such form, subsequent notices shall be provided 
        via such form.''.
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