[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2602 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2602

 To prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from reclassifying 
 broadband Internet access service as a telecommunications service and 
    from imposing certain regulations on providers of such service.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 25, 2016

 Mr. Lee (for himself, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Paul, Mr. 
Rubio, Mr. Tillis, and Mr. Sasse) 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 prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from reclassifying 
 broadband Internet access service as a telecommunications service and 
    from imposing certain regulations on providers of such service.

    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 ``Restoring Internet Freedom Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY OF FCC.

    (a) In General.--The rule adopted by the Federal Communications 
Commission in GN Docket No. 14-28 on February 26, 2015 (relating to 
broadband Internet access service) shall have no force or effect, and 
the Commission may not reissue such rule in substantially the same 
form, or issue a new rule that is substantially the same as such rule, 
unless the reissued or new rule is specifically authorized by a law 
enacted after the date of enactment of this Act.
    (b) Rule Defined.--In this section, the term ``rule'' has the 
meaning given the term in section 804 of title 5, United States Code.
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