[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2462 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2462

 To invalidate the actions of the Federal Communications Commission in 
abrogating the media ownership limitations under the Communications Act 
                                of 1934.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 2003

 Mr. Sanders (for himself, Mr. Abercrombie, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Brown of 
  Ohio, Ms. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Case, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Fattah, Mr. 
    Jackson of Illinois, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Hastings of 
Florida, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Inslee, Mr. Kucinich, Ms. Lee, Mr. McDermott, 
 Mrs. Maloney, Mr. George Miller of California, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Olver, 
Mr. Owens, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Slaughter, Ms. Solis, Ms. Velazquez, and 
 Ms. Watson) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To invalidate the actions of the Federal Communications Commission in 
abrogating the media ownership limitations under the Communications Act 
                                of 1934.

    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 ``Protect Diversity in Media Act''.

SEC. 2. FCC ACTIONS INVALIDATED.

    (a) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term ``media 
ownership proceeding'' means the Federal Communications Commission 
proceeding on broadcast media ownership rules (MB Docket No. 02-277, MM 
Docket No. 01-235, MM Docket No. 01-317, and MM Docket No. 00-244).
    (b) New Rules Invalidated.--The final rules adopted by the Federal 
Communications Commission pursuant to its media ownership proceeding, 
and announced by the Commission on June 2, 2003, shall be invalid and 
without legal effect.
    (c) Reinstatement of Previous Rules.--Any rule of the Federal 
Communications Commission that was in effect on June 1, 2003, and that 
was amended, repealed, or otherwise modified by the Commission pursuant 
to the media ownership proceeding is hereby reinstated as it was in 
effect on June 1, 2003. Any such rule shall be applied and enforced 
both prospectively after the date of enactment of this Act and 
retroactively to June 2, 2003, as if the media ownership proceeding had 
not occurred.
    (d) Use of Biennial Review Prohibited.--The Federal Communications 
Commission shall not apply section 202(h) of the Telecommunications Act 
of 1996 or section 11(b) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
161(b)) to any review of broadcast media ownership rules after the date 
of enactment of this Act.
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