[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4769 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4769

 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the imposition of 
            time-based access charges on Internet telephony.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 27, 2000

  Mr. Markey 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 prohibit the imposition of 
            time-based access charges on Internet telephony.

    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 Telephony Access Charge 
Prohibition Act of 2000''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF CHARGES ON PROVIDERS OF INTERNET TELEPHONE 
              SERVICE.

    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 Charges on Internet Telephone Service 
Providers.--Notwithstanding subsection (b)(4) or (d) or any other 
provision of this title, the Commission may not impose on any provider 
of telephone service that uses the Internet (as such term is defined in 
section 231(e)) to transmit telephone communications--
            ``(1) any contribution for the support of universal service 
        with respect to such transmissions, or
            ``(2) any access charge under part 69 of the Commission's 
        regulations (47 C.F.R. part 69) or any successor regulation 
        with respect to such transmissions,
that is based on a measure of the time that telecommunications services 
are used in the provision of such telephone service.''.
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