Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Small Business Broadband Deployment Act of 2015”.
Small Business Broadband Deployment Act of 2015
A BILL
To ensure that small business providers of broadband Internet access service can devote resources to broadband deployment rather than compliance with cumbersome regulatory requirements.
Sec. 2 Exception to enhancement to transparency requirements for small businesses
Definitions— In this Act—
the term broadband Internet access service—
means a mass-market retail service by wire or radio that provides the capability to transmit data to and receive data from all or substantially all Internet endpoints, including any capability that is incidental to and enables the operation of the communications service; and
does not include dial-up Internet access service; and
the term small business means any provider of broadband Internet access service that has not more than—
1,500 employees; or
500,000 subscribers.
Exception for small businesses— The enhancements to the transparency rule of the Federal Communications Commission under section 8.3 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, as described in paragraphs 162 through 184 of the Report and Order on Remand, Declaratory Ruling, and Order of the Federal Communications Commission with regard to protecting and promoting the open Internet (adopted February 26, 2015) (FCC 15–24), shall not apply to any small business.