[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1440 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1440

    To prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from imposing 
  penalties for indecent broadcasts on providers of video over cable 
television systems, satellite carriers, the Internet, or non-broadcast 
                               providers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2005

 Mr. Sanders (for himself, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Paul, Mr. Boucher, Mr. 
  McDermott, and Ms. Watson) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from imposing 
  penalties for indecent broadcasts on providers of video over cable 
television systems, satellite carriers, the Internet, or non-broadcast 
                               providers.

    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 ``Stamp Out Censorship Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION.

    Section 503 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 503) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Indecency Authority Available Only With Respect to 
Broadcasting.--This section shall be construed to permit the Commission 
to impose a forfeiture penalty under this section with respect to any 
indecent utterance only if that utterance is broadcast by a radio or 
television broadcasting station.''.
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