[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6219 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6219

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 9, 2021

Ms. Eshoo (for herself, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Costa, Mr. Welch, Ms. Pingree, 
 Ms. Meng, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Norton, Mr. Case, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Pappas, 
 Ms. McCollum, Mr. Blumenauer, and Mr. Payne) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to modify the definition of 
                 franchise fee, 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 ``Protecting Community Television 
Act''.

SEC. 2. MODIFYING THE DEFINITION OF FRANCHISE FEE.

    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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