[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5424 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5424

 To protect funding for Universal Service Fund programs, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 12, 2019

  Mr. Pocan (for himself, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Khanna, and Mr. 
  McGovern) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To protect funding for Universal Service Fund programs, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Protect Broadband Funding Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF NPRM.

    Beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal 
Communications Commission may not rely on the Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking in the matter of universal service contribution methodology 
that was adopted by the Commission on May 15, 2019 (FCC 19-46), to 
satisfy the requirements of section 553 of title 5, United States Code, 
for adopting, amending, revoking, or otherwise modifying any rule (as 
defined in section 551 of such title) of the Commission.
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