Protecting Community Television Act

H.R. 5659 · 116th Congress · Jan 21, 2020 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to modify the definition of franchise fee, and for other purposes.

This Act may be cited as the “Protecting Community Television Act”.

Section 622(g)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 542(g)(1)) is amended—

(1)

by striking “includes” and inserting “means”; and

(2)

by inserting “other monetary” before “assessment”.

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Jan 21, 2020viewing Introduced in House Ms. Eshoo (for herself, Mr. Welch, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Neal, Mr. Engel, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Cox of California, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Speier, Mr. Schiff, Ms. Gabbard, Ms. Meng, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Trone, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Pappas, Ms. Moore, Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire, and Mrs. Trahan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce