[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3803 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3803

 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to clarify the situations in 
which the Federal Communications Commission may grant a request for the 
          transfer of certain permits, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 21, 2020

   Mr. Cruz 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 amend the Communications Act of 1934 to clarify the situations in 
which the Federal Communications Commission may grant a request for the 
          transfer of certain permits, 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 ``Blocking Evasive Attempts to 
Manipulate Signals Act of 2020'' or the ``BEAMS Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF CERTAIN PERMITS.

    Section 325(d) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 325(d)) 
is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' after ``(d)'';
            (2) by inserting ``, subject to paragraph (2),'' after 
        ``prescribe, and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) The Commission may not grant such an application for the 
transfer of a permit described in subsection (c) that proposes a change 
in the primary language in which programming by a radio station 
described in that subsection will be broadcast, unless the Commission 
separately certifies to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
of the House of Representatives that, in the judgment of the 
Commission, and in addition to the requirements and prohibitions under 
section 310, the programming of the radio station is not, and will not 
become, subject to undue influence by a foreign government or a 
political party in power in a foreign country.''.
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