[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1981 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1981

  To provide that the rules of the Federal Communications Commission 
    relating to preserving the open Internet and broadband industry 
     practices shall be restored to effect until the date when the 
  Commission takes final action in the proceedings on such rules that 
 were remanded to the Commission by the United States Court of Appeals 
                 for the District of Columbia Circuit.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 3, 2014

 Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Udall of New Mexico, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. 
  Franken, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. Merkley) 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 provide that the rules of the Federal Communications Commission 
    relating to preserving the open Internet and broadband industry 
     practices shall be restored to effect until the date when the 
  Commission takes final action in the proceedings on such rules that 
 were remanded to the Commission by the United States Court of Appeals 
                 for the District of Columbia Circuit.

    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 ``Open Internet Preservation Act of 
2014''.

SEC. 2. RESTORATION OF OPEN INTERNET RULES DURING REMANDED PROCEEDINGS.

    (a) In General.--The rules adopted by the Federal Communications 
Commission in the Report and Order in the matter of preserving the open 
Internet and broadband industry practices (FCC 10-201; adopted on 
December 21, 2010) that were vacated by the United States Court of 
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Verizon v. Federal 
Communications Commission (No. 11-1355; decided on January 14, 2014) 
shall be restored to effect during the period beginning on the date of 
the enactment of this Act and ending on the date when the Commission 
takes final action in the proceedings remanded to the Commission in 
that decision.
    (b) Adjudication Authority.--After the end of the period described 
in subsection (a), the Federal Communications Commission may continue 
to adjudicate cases regarding violations of the rules described in such 
subsection that occurred during such period.
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