[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3679 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3679

  To prohibit discrimination in State taxation of multichannel video 
                   programming distribution services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2007

 Mr. Conyers (for himself, Mr. Cannon, Mr. Boucher, and Mr. Franks of 
   Arizona) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit discrimination in State taxation of multichannel video 
                   programming distribution services.

    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 ``State Video Tax Fairness Act of 
2007''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION.

    No State shall impose a discriminatory tax on any means of 
providing multichannel video programming distribution services, 
including Internet protocol (or any successor protocol), direct 
broadcast satellite delivery, and cable television services.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION.

    For purposes of this Act, the term ``discriminatory tax'' means any 
form of direct or indirect tax that results in different net State 
charges being imposed on substantially equivalent multichannel video 
programming services based on the means by which those services are 
delivered.
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