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[S. 1282 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]


        S.1282

                       One Hundred Ninth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
            the fourth day of January, two thousand and five


                                 An Act


 
    To amend the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 to strike the 
 privatization criteria for INTELSAT separated entities, remove certain 
 restrictions on separated and successor entities to INTELSAT, 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. FINANCIAL INTERESTS OF OFFICERS, MANAGERS, OR DIRECTORS.

    Section 621(5)(D) of the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 (47 
U.S.C. 763(5)(D)) is amended--
        (1) by striking ``(I)'' in clause (ii);
        (2) by striking ``signatories, or (II)'' in clause (ii) and all 
    that follows through ``mechanism;'' and inserting ``signatories; 
    and'';
        (3) by striking ``organization; and'' in clause (iii) and 
    inserting ``organization.''; and
        (4) by striking clause (iv).

SEC. 2. CRITERIA FOR INTELSAT SEPARATED ENTITIES.

    Subtitle B of title VI of the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 
(47 U.S.C. 763 et seq.) is amended by striking section 623 (47 U.S.C. 
763b).

SEC. 3. PRESERVATION OF SPACE SEGMENT CAPACITY OF THE GMDSS.

    Section 624 of the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 (47 U.S.C. 
763c) is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 624. SPACE SEGMENT CAPACITY OF THE GMDSS.

    ``The United States shall preserve the space segment capacity of 
the GMDSS. This section is not intended to alter the status that the 
GMDSS would otherwise have under United States laws and regulations of 
the International Telecommunication Union with respect to spectrum, 
orbital locations, or other operational parameters, or to be a barrier 
to competition for the provision of GMDSS services.''.

SEC. 4. SATELLITE SERVICE REPORT.

    (a) Annual Report.--The Federal Communications Commission shall 
review competitive market conditions with respect to domestic and 
international satellite communications services and shall include in an 
annual report an analysis of those conditions. The Commission shall 
transmit a copy of the report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation and the House of Representatives Committee 
on Energy and Commerce.
    (b) Content.--The Commission shall include in the report--
        (1) an identification of the number and market share of 
    competitors in domestic and international satellite markets;
        (2) an analysis of whether there is effective competition in 
    the market for domestic and international satellite services; and
        (3) a list of any foreign nations in which legal or regulatory 
    practices restrict access to the market for satellite services in 
    such nation in a manner that undermines competition or favors a 
    particular competitor or set of competitors.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.