[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3119 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3119

 To prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from reclassifying 
 broadband internet access service as a telecommunications service and 
    from imposing certain regulations on providers of such service.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 24, 2023

 Mr. Lee (for himself, Mr. Budd, Ms. Lummis, and Mr. Rubio) 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 prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from reclassifying 
 broadband internet access service as a telecommunications service and 
    from imposing certain regulations on providers of such service.

    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 ``Restoring Internet Freedom Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY OF FCC.

    (a) In General.--The notice of proposed rulemaking adopted by the 
Federal Communications Commission in WC Docket No. 23-320 on October 
19, 2023 (relating to broadband internet access service) shall have no 
force or effect, and the Commission may not adopt any rule pursuant to 
that notice or adopt any substantially similar rule unless the rule is 
specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of enactment of 
this Act.
    (b) Applicability.--Subsection (a) shall apply to any rule adopted 
pursuant to the notice described in that subsection, or any 
substantially similar rule, that is adopted before, on, or after the 
date of enactment of this Act.
    (c) Rule Defined.--In this section, the term ``rule'' has the 
meaning given the term in section 804 of title 5, United States Code.
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