[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1868 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1868

To provide that providers of broadband Internet access service shall be 
  subject to the privacy rules adopted by the Federal Communications 
                    Commission on October 27, 2016.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 4, 2017

   Ms. Rosen (for herself, Mr. Pallone, and Mr. Michael F. Doyle of 
Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that providers of broadband Internet access service shall be 
  subject to the privacy rules adopted by the Federal Communications 
                    Commission on October 27, 2016.

    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 American Privacy Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTING THE PRIVACY OF BROADBAND CUSTOMERS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a provider of broadband 
Internet access service (as defined in section 8.2 of title 47, Code of 
Federal Regulations) shall be subject to--
            (1) the Report and Order in the matter of protecting the 
        privacy of customers of broadband and other telecommunications 
        services that was adopted by the Federal Communications 
        Commission on October 27, 2016 (FCC 16-148); and
            (2) the rules adopted in such Report and Order.
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