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 HR 214, Advanced Internet Communications Services Act of 2005
Sponsor: Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.)
Summary: To promote the deployment of and investment in advanced Internet communications services. Establishes a new definition independent of telecommunications services and information services and provides special deregulatory treatment to such. Treats such services as interstate in nature, but specifically prohibits federal or state regulation of such except in the limited circumstances outlined in the bill itself.
HR 2418 and S 1063, IP-Enabled Voice Communications and Public Safety Act of 2005
Sponsor: Rep. Bart Gordon (R-Tenn.) / Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
Summary: Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prescribe regulations to establish a set of requirements or obligations on providers of IP-enabled voice service (Internet protocol-enabled service for real-time two-way or multidirectional voice communications) to ensure that 911 (emergency) services and E-911 services (services that automatically deliver a 911 call to the appropriate public safety answering point) are available to customers of IP-enabled voice service.
HR 2533 and S 241, Universal Service Anti-deficiency Act Exemption
Sponsor: Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-Wy.) / Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)
Summary: To amend section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that funds received as universal service contributions and the universal service support programs established pursuant to that section are not subject to certain provisions of title 31, United States Code, commonly known as the Anti-deficiency Act.
HR 2726, Preserving Innovation in Telecom Act of 2005
Sponsor: Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas)
Summary: To prohibit municipal governments from offering telecommunications, information, or cable services except to remedy market failures by private enterprise to provide such services.
 HR 3146 and S. 1349, Video Choice Act of 2005
Sponsor: Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) / Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.)
Summary: Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit a competitive video services provider (CVSP) from being required to obtain a franchise in order to provide any video programming, interactive on-demand services, other programming services, or any other video services in an area in which the CVSP has any right or authority to establish lines in or across public rights-of-way and such right or authority does not rely on, and is independent of, any cable franchise obtained by the CVSP. Allows the CVSP to be subject to the payment of fees (with limits) to a local franchising authority based on the gross revenue of the CVSP in that area.
S 1294, Community Broadband Act of 2005
Sponsor: Sen. Frank Lautenburg (D-N.J.)
Summary: Amends the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to prohibit any state statute, regulation, or other legal requirement from prohibiting any public provider from providing, to any person or public or private entity, advanced telecommunications capability or any service that utilizes such capability.
S 1504, Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act
Sponsor: Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.)
Summary: A bill to establish a market driven telecommunications marketplace, to eliminate government managed competition of existing communication service, and to provide parity between functionally equivalent services.
S 1583, Universal Service for the 21st Century Act
Sponsor: Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.)
Summary: To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to expand the contribution base for universal service, and to establish a separate account within the universal service fund to support the deployment of broadband services. |
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