[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 993 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 993

 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

                              May 1, 2017

 Mr. Lee (for himself, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Johnson, 
    Mr. Paul, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Sasse, and Mr. Inhofe) 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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