[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2057 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2057

    To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the use of 
                  electronic measurement units (EMUs).


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 10, 2000

 Mr. Murkowski introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the use of 
                  electronic measurement units (EMUs).

    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 ``Motorists Privacy Act of 2000''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENT UNITS.

    Part I of title III of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
301 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 338. PROHIBITION ON USE OF ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENT UNITS.

    ``(a) Prohibition.--No person may install, post, operate, or 
otherwise use an electronic measurement unit (EMU).
    ``(b) Electronic Measurement Unit Defined.--In subsection (a), the 
term `electronic measurement unit (EMU)' means a device that determines 
the frequency of the radio broadcast being received by a radio receiver 
located within a vehicle passing through the operating range of the 
device.''.
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