[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1291 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1291

   To prohibit the imposition of access charges on Internet service 
                   providers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 25, 1999

   Mr. Upton (for himself, Mr. Tauzin, Mr. Oxley, Mr. Whitfield, Mr. 
 Bilbray, Mr. Armey, Mr. Ewing, Mr. Pombo, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Rahall, 
  Mr. Gilman, Mr. Dickey, Mr. Weller, Mr. Mica, Mr. Blagojevich, Mr. 
Sensenbrenner, Mr. Regula, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Goode, Mr. McInnis, Mr. Shows, 
Mr. Green of Wisconsin, Mr. Canady of Florida, Mr. Foley, Mr. LoBiondo, 
Mr. Gilchrest, Mr. Kuykendall, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Clyburn, Mrs. Emerson, 
  Mr. Tancredo, Mr. Deal of Georgia, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. 
Stearns, Mrs. Cubin, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. Strickland, Mr. Blunt, Mr. 
 Nethercutt, Mr. Lazio, Mr. Peterson of Pennsylvania, Mr. LaHood, Mr. 
Kolbe, Mr. Sam Johnson, of Texas, Mr. Baker, Mrs. Roukema, Mr. Packard, 
 Mr.  Linder, Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Norwood, Mr. Chambliss, Mr. 
Ose, Mr. Camp, Mr. Goodlatte, Mrs. Kelly, Mr. McHugh, Mr. Mascara, Mr. 
 Kleczka, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Gillmor, Mr. Ramstad, Mr. Barcia, and Mr. 
 Scarborough) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the imposition of access charges on Internet service 
                   providers, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Internet Access Charge Prohibition 
Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSE.

    It is the purpose of this Act to ensure that Internet information 
services will continue to be deployed as rapidly and efficiently to as 
many Americans as possible by preventing the Federal Communications 
Commission from applying interstate access charges to providers of 
Internet services.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF ACCESS CHARGES ON INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS.

    Section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(l) Prohibition of Access Charges on Internet Service 
Providers.--Notwithstanding subsection (b)(4) or (d) or any other 
provision of this section, the Commission shall not impose on any 
interactive computer service (as such term is defined in section 
230(e)) or other information service provider any access charge for the 
support of universal service that is based on a measure of the time 
that telecommunications services are used in the provision of such 
interactive computer service or information service.''.
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