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bill_id	congress	bill_type	bill_number	title	policy_area	introduced_date ▲	latest_action_date	latest_action_text	origin_chamber	sponsor_name	sponsor_state	sponsor_party	sponsor_bioguide_id	cosponsor_count	summary_text	update_date
106-s-3278	106	s	3278	Department of Energy Nanoscale Science and Engineering Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-12-14	2000-12-14	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11790-11791)	Senate	Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]	NM	D	B000468	0	Department of Energy Nanoscale Science and Engineering Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to support a program of research and development (R&D) in nanoscience and nanoengineering, including efforts to further the understanding of the chemistry, physics, materials science, and engineering of phenomena on a scale of one to 100 nanometers.Requires the Director of the Office of Science to: (1) support individual investigators and multidisciplinary teams of investigators conducting R&D in nanoscience and nanoengineering; (2) develop, plan, construct, acquire, or operate special equipment or facilities for the use of such investigators; (3) support technology transfer activities to benefit industry and other users of nanoscience and nanoengineering; and (4) coordinate such R&D activities with industry and other Federal agencies.	2026-03-24T12:48:03Z
106-hr-5619	106	hr	5619	Save Consumers Aggravation and Money Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-11-01	2000-11-08	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]	NY	D	L000480	4	Save Consumers Aggravation and Money Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require providers of dial-around services (the use of long distance codes which bypass a person's preferred interstate telephone exchange carrier) to identify themselves to consumers, disclose information concerning charges for such services, and allow consumers to terminate a call at no charge before it is connected. Requires the Federal Communications Commission to prescribe regulations to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive practices relating to the use of dial-around services to place interstate calls.Amends the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to require the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe rules to prohibit unfair and deceptive acts and practices in any advertisement for dial-around services.	2025-08-20T14:21:27Z
106-s-3262	106	s	3262	Public Broadcasting Integrity Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-10-30	2000-10-30	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	Senate	Sen. Jeffords, James M. [R-VT]	VT	R	J000072	0	Public Broadcasting Integrity Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make certain political broadcasting opportunity requirements inapplicable to noncommercial educational broadcasting stations.	2025-08-20T14:19:40Z
106-hr-5571	106	hr	5571	Electronic Privacy Protection Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-10-26	2000-10-31	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]	NJ	D	H001032	0	Electronic Privacy Protection Act - Makes it unlawful for any person to knowingly: (1) make, import, export, or sell an information collection device for a computer unless it has a label disclosing to the computer's primary user or to another operator who is not a primary user that it may transmit from the computer information identifiable to it; (2) install an information collection device on a computer that is not under general management and control of such person, unless such person has given notice of such installation to the computer's primary user and obtained the user's consent to such installation; or (3) use an information collection device to transmit from a computer that is not under general management and control of such person any information identifiable to such computer to a primary user or to an operator who is not a primary user, unless such person has given notice that the device may transmit such information to the primary user and obtained the user's consent to such transmission.Sets forth civil penalties for violations of this Act.	2025-08-20T14:21:35Z
106-s-3180	106	s	3180	Spyware Control and Privacy Protection Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-10-06	2000-10-06	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: (CR S10090-10091)	Senate	Sen. Edwards, John [D-NC]	NC	D	E000286	1	Spyware Control and Privacy Protection Act of 2000 - Requires any computer software made available to the public that includes the capability to collect information about the user of such software, the hardware on which such software is used, or the manner in which such software is used, and the capability to disclose such information to any person other than the software user, to include: (1) a clear notice that such software contains such capability; (2) a description of the information subject to collection; and (3) clear electronic instructions on how to disable such capability without affecting software performance or operation.Prohibits such capability from being enabled unless the user consent in advance.Provides exceptions for any such capability reasonably needed to: (1) determine whether a user is a licensed or authorized user; (2) provide technical support for such software; or (3) enable an employer to monitor computer usage by employees within the scope of employment authorized by applicable Federal, State, or local law. Requires the protection of information collected through such exceptions.Treats each violations of such requirements and prohibition as an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act.Authorizes a software provider to disclose such information to law enforcement officials or a court under a warrant or court order (requiring that the user be given notice of such request and an opportunity to contest). Requires a court issuing such an order to ensure appropriate safeguards on the use of such information.Provides a private right of action for users for enforcement of this Act. Authorizes a court, in such an action, to issue a protective order and conduct proceedings so as to protect trade secrets.	2025-08-20T14:18:52Z
106-hr-5350	106	hr	5350	Children's Protection Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-10-02	2000-10-02	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.	House	Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]	TX	R	S000583	4	Children's Protection Act of 2000 - Exempts from Federal antitrust laws any collaborative efforts by or among persons in the entertainment industry to develop and disseminate voluntary guidelines designed to: (1) alleviate the negative impact of television, movies, video games, Internet content, and music lyrics containing violence, sexual content, criminal behavior, or other subjects that the entertainment industry deems appropriate for children; or (2) promote telecast material that is educational, informational, or otherwise beneficial to the development of children. States that such exemption shall not apply to any efforts which: (1) result in a boycott of any person; or (2) concern the purchase or sale of advertising.Requires a report from the Attorney General to Congress on the extent to which: (1) the motion picture, recording, and television industry have developed or enforced guidelines to ensure compliance with ratings or labeling systems which identify and limit the dissemination of sexual, violent, or other indecent material to children; and (2) Federal and State antitrust laws preclude those industries from developing and enforcing such guidelines.	2025-08-20T14:20:45Z
106-hr-5294	106	hr	5294	Universal Service Sufficiency Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-09-26	2000-10-20	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Deal, Nathan [R-GA-9]	GA	R	D000168	0	Universal Service Sufficiency Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to remove, on the date of enactment of this Act, the interim cap on total nationwide loop cost expense adjustments (interim cap) contained in Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations. Prohibits the FCC from enforcing or reimposing such cap after such date.Prohibits the FCC from: (1) enforcing individual caps imposed on carriers by orders of the FCC entered in connection with prior requests for study area waivers; or (2) imposing any new cap that would limit the per loop support calculated under current FCC regulations.Requires the FCC to calculate: (1) that portion of the high cost support mechanism attributable to loops having costs in excess of 115 percent of the nationwide average; and (2) the nationwide average unseparated loop cost, taking into account the elimination of the interim cap pursuant to this Act.	2025-08-20T14:18:39Z
106-hr-5300	106	hr	5300	Wireless Telephone Spam Protection Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-09-26	2000-10-20	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]	NJ	D	H001032	0	Wireless Telephone Spam Protection Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make it unlawful for any person to use any covered mobile telephone messaging system to transmit an unsolicited advertisement. Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from exempting from certain telephone regulatory requirements any call that violates such prohibition.	2025-08-20T14:19:31Z
106-s-3069	106	s	3069	Children's Protection Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-09-19	2000-09-19	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	Senate	Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]	KS	R	B000953	0	Children's Protection Act of 2000 - Makes the antitrust laws inapplicable to any joint discussion, consideration, review, action, or agreement (discussion) by or among persons in the entertainment industry for the purpose of developing and disseminating voluntary guidelines designed to: (1) alleviate the negative impact of telecast material, movies, video games, Internet content, and music lyrics containing violence, sexual content, criminal behavior, or other subjects that are not appropriate for children; or (2) promote telecast material that is educational, informational, or otherwise beneficial to child development. Makes such exemption inapplicable to any such discussion that: (1) results in a boycott; or (2) concerns the purchase or sale of advertising, including restrictions on the number of products that may be advertised in a commercial, the number of times a program may be interrupted for commercials, and the number of consecutive commercials permitted within each interruption.Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from establishing, expanding, or otherwise modifying requirements relating to the service obligations of noncommercial educational television stations except by agency rulemaking conducted under applicable Federal law. Terminates on the date of enactment of this Act the effect of additional programming guidance contained in the FCC memorandum opinion and order WQED Pittsburgh except to the extent such guidance is prescribed under FCC rulemaking procedures.	2025-08-20T14:17:00Z
106-hr-5183	106	hr	5183	To authorize the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to lease, jointly-develop, or otherwise use a commercially provided inflatable habitation module for the International Space Station.	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-09-14	2000-09-22	Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.	House	Rep. Lampson, Nick [D-TX-9]	TX	D	L000043	2	Authorizes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to lease, jointly-develop, or otherwise use a commercially provided inflatable habitation module for the International Space Station, but only if such module would: (1) result in no increase in NASA's planned remaining cost to complete and attach the baseline habitation module; (2) impose no delays to the Space Station Assembly Sequence; and (3) result in no increased safety risk.	2025-01-02T17:15:04Z
106-s-3020	106	s	3020	Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-09-07	2000-09-07	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8210-8211)	Senate	Sen. Grams, Rod [R-MN]	MN	R	G000367	28	Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to modify its rules authorizing the operation of low-power FM radio stations to: (1) prescribe minimum distance separations for third-adjacent channels (as well as co-channels and first- and second-adjacent channels); and (2) prohibit any applicant from obtaining a low-power FM license if such applicant has engaged in the unlicensed operation of any radio station in violation of FCC radio licensing requirements.Prohibits the FCC, without specific authorization by Congress, from: (1) eliminating or reducing such minimum distance separations for third-adjacent channels; or (2) extending the eligibility for low-power FM stations beyond those organizations and entities proposed in MM Docket No. 99-25.Invalidates any previously issued low-power FM station license that does not comply with such rule modifications.Directs the FCC to conduct an experimental program to test whether low- power FM stations will result in harmful interference to existing FM radio stations if such stations are not subject to the minimum distance separation requirements. Requires the FCC to: (1) publish test results and allow an opportunity for public comment; and (2) report test results and FCC recommendations on reducing or eliminating minimum distance standards to specified congressional committees.	2025-08-20T14:17:37Z
106-hr-5069	106	hr	5069	Comprehensive Rural Telecommunications Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-07-27	2000-08-08	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Minge, David [D-MN-2]	MN	D	M000795	12	Comprehensive Rural Telecommunications Act - Title I: Rural Telework - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Rural Utility Service, to establish a National Centers for Distance Working Program to provide grants to eligible organizations for the Federal share of establishing National Centers for Distance Working in rural areas.Directs a recipient Center to use grants for five-year projects to: (1) identify needed skills and provide training and employment-related services to persons in rural areas and Indian tribes to support the use of teleworking (the use of telecommunications to perform work functions over a distance) in technology fields; and (2) recruit employers and provide for high-speed employer-employee communications.Authorizes the Secretary to make limited grants for teleworking studies, including development of best practices for businesses that employ teleworkers.Authorizes appropriations.Title II: Rural Telecommunications Modernization - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the rural telecommunications facilities investment tax credit.Title III: Rural Broadband Enhancement - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission to initiate a proceeding to provide Federal universal service support for the deployment of broadband telecommunications service (high speed voice, data, graphic, and video telecommunications) to eligible rural communities (communities not located in an area designated as a metropolitan area by the Office of Management and Budget).Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administrative Organization Act to direct the Rural Utilities Service of the Department of Agriculture to make loans or other credit extensions to eligible telecommunications carrier providers, or to companies that accept the obligations of such carriers, to finance the deployment of broadband service to eligible rural communities.Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 through 2005.	2025-08-20T14:20:45Z
106-s-2988	106	s	2988	Millennium National Commission on Space Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-07-27	2000-07-27	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	Senate	Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]	TN	R	F000439	3	Millennium National Commission on Space Act - Directs the President to establish and appoint the members of a National Commission on Space to study existing and proposed space activities and formulate an agenda for the U. S. civilian space program.Requires the Commission to identify long range goals, opportunities, and policy options for U.S. civilian space activity for the next 20 years and to develop options and recommendations for a long range national civilian space policy plan.Authorizes appropriations.	2025-08-20T14:19:27Z
106-s-2989	106	s	2989	Low Power Radio Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-07-27	2000-07-27	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	Senate	Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]	AZ	R	M000303	1	Low Power Radio Act of 2000 - Requires any low-power FM radio licensee determined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to be transmitting a signal causing harmful interference to one or more licensed radio services to cease such transmission and to refrain from recommencing such signal until it has taken FCC-prescribed action to eliminate such interference.Authorizes radio service licensees to bring an action for the enforcement of such requirement. Outlines complaint procedures, requiring resolution within 150 days. Authorizes the FCC to: (1) order the losing party to reimburse complaint costs; and (2) impose punitive damages for frivolous complaints.Directs the FCC to complete all rulemakings necessary to implement the transition to digital radio no later than June 1, 2001.	2025-08-20T14:20:50Z
106-s-2928	106	s	2928	Consumer Internet Privacy Enhancement Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-07-26	2000-10-03	Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-1147.	Senate	Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]	AZ	R	M000303	3	Consumer Internet Privacy Enhancement Act - Declares it unlawful for a commercial website operator to collect personally identifiable information online from a website user unless the operator provides both notice and opportunity for such user to limit its use and disclosure.Allocates enforcement authority among designated Federal agencies and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Establishes a civil penalty for violations. Permits similar civil actions by the States.Directs the FTC to contract with the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences for a study of online privacy and response tools and strategies.	2025-08-20T14:19:32Z
106-s-2931	106	s	2931	Arctic Research and Policy Amendments Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-07-26	2000-07-26	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.	Senate	Sen. Murkowski, Frank H. [R-AK]	AK	R	M001085	1	Arctic Research and Policy Amendments Act of 2000 - Amends the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 to authorize the Arctic Research Commission to make an annual award for excellence in, or for outstanding support of, Arctic research. Makes individuals who have been Commission members ineligible to receive such awards.Allows the Executive Director to: (1) make grants to persons to conduct research concerning the Arctic; and (2) make funds available to the National Science Foundation or to Federal agencies for the conduct of such research.	2025-08-20T14:17:50Z
106-hr-4940	106	hr	4940	To designate the museum operated by the Secretary of Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as the "American Museum of Science and Energy", and for other purposes.	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-07-24	2000-10-27	Message on Senate action sent to the House.	House	Rep. Wamp, Zach [R-TN-3]	TN	R	W000119	8	Designates the museum operated by the Secretary of Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as the "American Museum of Science and Energy". Declares it the official museum of science and energy in the United States, and confers upon it the sole right to use such name throughout the United States and its possessions.Grants the Secretary certain implementation authority, including volunteer recruitment and training for Museum- related activities. Treats such volunteers as Federal employees for purposes of the Federal Tort Claims Act and compensation for work-related injuries.	2025-04-07T13:46:56Z
106-hr-4901	106	hr	4901	National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-07-20	2000-07-20	Referred to the House Committee on Science.	House	Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7]	MI	R	S000597	0	National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2000 - Authorizes appropriations to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for FY 2001 through FY 2003, with specific allocations for Research and Related Activities, Education and Human Resources, Major Research Equipment, Salaries and Expenses, and the Office of Inspector General.(Sec. 3) Earmarks funds for plant genome research.Authorizes NSF to make grants for the establishment of regional plant genome and gene expression research and development centers to: (1) develop capabilities in basic plant genome research; (2) extend basic plant genomics research through plant breeding programs and accelerate its application to development and testing of new varieties of enhanced food crops and for alternative uses of agricultural crops; and (3) serve as centers for scientific and safety information on plant genomics. Prohibits NSF from providing funds for more than half of the cost of establishing any such research and development center.(Sec. 4) Directs NSF to make grant awards to support research on learning, focusing on: (1) brain research as a foundation for research on human learning; (2) behavioral, cognitive, affective, and social aspects of learning; (3) science, mathematics, engineering, and technological learning in formal and informal educational settings; and (4) learning in complex educational systems. Specifies the goals of such research to be to integrate scientific disciplines into research on learning, to gain a better understanding of how research and educational practice can be reconciled, and to test, evaluate, and refine hypotheses across disciplines. Requires NSF to make grants for the establishment of centers of research on learning to bring together multidisciplinary teams of researchers to support such research goals.Authorizes NSF to participate in the Interagency Education Research Initiative.Directs NSF to sponsor a conference on human learning and education research to bring together researchers from many disciplines, including the physical …	2025-08-20T14:20:57Z
106-hr-4903	106	hr	4903	Foreign Government Investment Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-07-20	2000-08-02	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-16]	MI	D	D000355	1	Foreign Government Investment Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit any broadcast license, permit, or operating authority from being granted to or held by a business organization or trust controlled by a foreign government. Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from waiving the application of such prohibition. Considers an entity to be controlled by a foreign government if more than 25 percent of the ownership, voting rights, capital stock, or other pecuniary interest in that entity is owned, held, or controlled by such government.	2025-08-20T14:21:00Z
106-hr-4906	106	hr	4906	Enterprise Integration Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-07-20	2000-07-25	Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology.	House	Rep. Barcia, James A. [D-MI-5]	MI	D	B000134	1	Enterprise Integration Act of 2000 - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish an initiative for advancing enterprise integration within the United States. Requires such initiative to begin with product data management and build upon ongoing efforts of NIST and the private sector, to involve consortia that include government and industry, and to be designed to permit enterprise integration in each U.S. major manufacturing industry at the earliest possible date.Requires the Director to identify all enterprise integration standards and implementation activities for major manufacturing industries underway in the United States and abroad. Requires: (1) the Director to work with industry representatives and organizations currently engaged in enterprise integration activities; and (2) such representatives and organizations to assess the current state of enterprise integration within the industry, identify the remaining steps, and work toward agreement on the roles of NIST and the private sector. Requires the Director to report to Congress on these matters and on anticipated related NIST activities.Requires the Director to submit to Congress a plan for enterprise integration for each major manufacturing industry, including milestones for NIST's portion of the plan, the dates of likely achievement of those milestones, and anticipated costs to the Government and industry by fiscal year. Requires, for a given industry, updates of the plans and a progress report for the past year to be submitted annually until enterprise integration has been achieved.Authorizes appropriations.	2025-08-20T14:21:01Z
106-s-2902	106	s	2902	Broadband Internet Regulatory Relief Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-07-20	2000-07-26	Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-1139.	Senate	Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]	KS	R	B000953	0	Broadband Internet Regulatory Relief Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to state that an incumbent local exchange carrier (carrier) shall not be subject to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations with respect to: (1) the duty to provide to other requesting carriers interconnection with or notice of changes regarding any packet-based functionality of the carrier's network; (2) any network element that consists of or is created by a packet-switched or successor technology; (3) the provision of advanced service; (4) any premises or structure used solely for packet-switched or successor network elements; or (5) any optical fiber in the carrier's distribution network that is used exclusively to provide telecommunications services to residential subscribers that is or was either deployed: (i) where previously no outside telephone distribution plant existed; (ii) as a replacement for such a plant; or (iii) from a remote terminal to a customer premises (with an added requirement that such facilities be capable of providing certain services through the upgrade of electronics).Requires such carrier to make advanced service available: (1) to 80 percent of its customers in a State within three years after enactment of this Act, where such services can be provided using an industry-approved standard and existing loop facilities; and (2) within five years of such date, upon request of any customer. Allows carriers that meet such time limits to continue to receive the regulatory relief provided under this Act, while discontinuing such relief for failure to do so.Prohibits advanced service offered by such carriers from being subject to common carrier regulation by the FCC or a State in any exchange where advanced service is being provided by an unaffiliated advanced service provider. Allows for a petition to the FCC for such regulatory relief. Prohibits Federal or State regulation in any geographic area in which the carrier was not the local incumbent exchange carrier on February 8, 1996. States that…	2025-08-20T14:17:54Z
106-s-2815	106	s	2815	A bill to provide for the nationwide designation of 2-1-1 as a toll-free telephone number for access to information and referrals on human services, to encourage the deployment of the toll-free telephone number, and for other purposes.	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-06-29	2000-06-29	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6125-6126)	Senate	Sen. Cleland, Max [D-GA]	GA	D	C001034	3	Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and each commission or other entity to which the FCC has delegated the appropriate authority to designate 2-1-1 as a national toll-free telephone number for accessing information about and referrals to providers of human services, including information for volunteering for and making donations for such services.	2025-01-14T18:51:33Z
106-hr-4769	106	hr	4769	Internet Telephone Access Charge Prohibition Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-06-27	2000-07-14	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]	MA	D	M000133	0	Internet Telephony Access Charge Prohibition Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from imposing on any provider of telephone service that uses the Internet any contribution for the support of universal service with respect to such transmissions, or any access charge, that is based on a measure of the time that telecommunications services are used in the provision of telephone service.	2025-08-20T14:18:44Z
106-s-2793	106	s	2793	Foreign Government Investment Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-06-27	2000-06-27	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	Senate	Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]	SC	D	H000725	17	Foreign Government Investment Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit any broadcast license, permit, or operating authority from being granted to or held by a corporation, joint venture, partnership, other business organization, or trust controlled by a foreign government or its representatives. Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from waiving the application of such prohibition. Provides for an entity to be considered to be controlled by a foreign government or its representatives if more than 25 percent of the ownership, voting rights, capital stock, or other pecuniary interest in that entity is owned, held, or controlled by such a government or its representatives.	2025-08-20T14:18:26Z
106-hr-4758	106	hr	4758	Spectrum Resource Assurance Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-06-26	2000-07-07	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]	FL	R	S000822	6	Spectrum Resource Assurance Act - Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from applying any limit on spectrum aggregation to any license or other authorization for commercial mobile radio service granted in any competitive bidding proceeding held after January 1, 2000, or to any subsequent application for the transfer or assignment of such a license.	2025-08-20T14:19:46Z
106-hr-4729	106	hr	4729	To authorize the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to plan, design, construct, and equip laboratory, administrative, and support space to house base operations for the Smithsonian Astrophyical Observatory Submillimeter Array located on Mauna Kea at Hilo, Hawaii.	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-06-23	2000-06-26	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, Hazardous Materials and Pipeline Transportation.	House	Rep. Matsui, Robert T. [D-CA-5]	CA	D	M000249	3	Authorizes the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to plan, design, construct, and equip laboratory, administrative, and support space to house base operations for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Submillimeter Array located on Mauna Kea at Hilo, Hawaii.Authorizes appropriations.	2025-01-02T17:14:28Z
106-hr-4742	106	hr	4742	Cell Phone Consumer Protection Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-06-23	2000-07-07	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]	NY	D	W000792	4	Cell Phone Consumer Protection Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish requirements to ensure that providers of commercial mobile telephone services meet minimum standards regarding the quality and performance of such service, including standards regarding connection, reception, and billing practices. Directs the FCC to: (1) establish and administer a system for registering complaints with regard to such service, including a toll-free number; and (2) require each service provider to include in each subscriber's bill a statement informing the subscriber of such complaint procedure.Requires the FCC to report to Congress at least every six months regarding complaints received, and to make each report available to the public through an FCC website.	2025-08-20T14:19:31Z
106-s-2767	106	s	2767	A bill to authorize the enforcement by State and local governments of certain Federal Communications Commission regulations regarding use of citizens band radio equipment.	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-06-22	2000-06-22	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5665)	Senate	Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]	WI	D	F000061	2	Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow a State or local government to enact a statute or ordinance that prohibits a violation of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations which prohibit: (1) a use of citizens band radio equipment not authorized by the FCC; or (2) the unauthorized operation of such equipment on a frequency between 24 and 35 megahertz.Provides that a station licensed by the FCC in any radio service for the operation at issue shall not be subject to such a statute or ordinance.Requires the FCC to provide technical guidance regarding the detection and determination of violations of FCC regulations.Permits a person affected to submit to the FCC an appeal of the decision of a State or local government enforcing such a statute or ordinance.Provides that: (1) the enforcement of such a statute or ordinance shall not preclude the FCC from enforcing the regulation in that case concurrently; and (2) nothing in this Act shall be construed to diminish or otherwise affect FCC jurisdiction over devices capable of interfering with radio communications.Mandates that enforcement of a statute or ordinance with respect to citizens band radio equipment aboard a commercial motor vehicle shall require probable cause that such vehicle or individual is in violation of such FCC regulations.	2025-01-14T18:51:33Z
106-s-2775	106	s	2775	Internet Tax Moratorium and Equity Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-06-22	2000-06-22	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.	Senate	Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]	ND	D	D000432	11	Internet Tax Moratorium and Equity Act - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to extend, until December 31, 2005, provisions which prohibit a State or political subdivision from imposing: (1) taxes on Internet access, unless such tax was generally imposed and actually enforced prior to October 1, 1998; and (2) multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.Expresses the sense of the Congress that States and localities should work together, with the advice of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, to develop a uniform streamlined sales and use tax system that addresses remote sales.Authorizes States to enter into an Interstate Sales and Use Tax Compact which shall describe a uniform, streamlined sales and use tax system consistent with such system.	2025-08-20T14:18:34Z
106-hr-4712	106	hr	4712	FCC De-Politicization Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-06-21	2000-06-28	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Oxley, Michael G. [R-OH-4]	OH	R	O000163	6	FCC De-Politicization Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit any member, officer, or employee of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from: (1) expressing the support or opposition of the FCC to any legislation or appropriation; or (2) requesting or suggesting on behalf of the FCC that any organization, entity, or person should communicate to any Member of Congress the support or opposition of that organization, entity, or person to any legislation or appropriation, unless either such action has been approved by FCC majority vote. Allows an approved action to be carried out only by FCC members and the staffs of the offices of such members, and not by officers or employees of any other FCC component..States that such prohibitions shall not prohibit any FCC member from expressing individual opinions with respect to any legislation or appropriation.	2025-08-20T14:18:10Z
106-s-2762	106	s	2762	Saving Humanities, Arts, and Resources for Education Networking Act of 2000 (SHARE Net Act)	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-06-21	2000-06-21	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.	Senate	Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]	CT	D	D000388	0	Saving Humanities, Arts, and Resources for Education Networking Act of 2000 (SHARE Net Act) - Expresses the sense of Congress that, following the principle of the Morrill Acts that public assets be used for broadening public education, the resources available through the auction of the analog spectrum should be tapped to fund the development of a new educational and cultural infrastructure that utilizes today's technologies to expand the reach and impact of existing high-quality community educational resources.Authorizes the Secretary of Education to carry out a SHARE Net Grant program to develop a comprehensive, accessible, high-tech infrastructure of educational and cultural resources for nonprofit institutions, individuals, and others for educational purposes through a systematic effort to coordinate, link, and enhance existing specialized resources and expertise in public and private cultural and educational institutions.Allows such grants to be made to partnerships with at least three organizations from at least three of these categories: (1) institutions of a higher education; (2) libraries; (3) public radio and television stations; (4) museums; (5) arts and cultural institutions; (6) State educational agencies; (7) local educational agencies; and (8) public interest, not-for-profit organizations.Sets forth mandatory and permissible uses of grant funds, and application and matching funds requirements. Requires grant award priority to be given to partnerships that: (1) serve a low-income community; or (2) have a membership that is broadly representative of the region or State to be served.Authorizes appropriations.	2025-08-20T14:21:39Z
106-hr-4670	106	hr	4670	Chief Information Officer of the United States Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-06-15	2000-06-28	Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology.	House	Rep. Turner, Jim [D-TX-2]	TX	D	T000424	17	Chief Information Officer of the United States Act of 2000 - Establishes an Office of Information Technology in the Executive Office of the President to serve as a source of technical, policy, and management analysis, leadership, and advice for the President and Federal agencies with respect to the development, application, and management of information technology by the Federal Government.Provides for such office to be headed by a Chief Information Officer who shall be the President's principal adviser on matters relating to such development, application, and management of information technology.Establishes in the executive branch a Chief Information Officers Council to assist and advise in the development and implementation of Federal policies and practices with regard to agency development, application, and management of information technology.Provides that this Act shall not apply to national security systems.	2026-03-23T12:17:56Z
106-hr-4600	106	hr	4600	Children's Internet Protection Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-06-08	2000-06-21	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3]	MS	R	P000323	20	Children's Internet Protection Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make an elementary or secondary school having computers with Internet access, or a library with one or more computers with Internet access, ineligible to receive universal services at discount rates unless the authority responsible for the administration of such school or library certifies to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it: (1) has selected a technology for such computers which filters or blocks access to material that is obscene, child pornography, and material that is harmful to minors during computer use; and (2) is enforcing a policy to ensure the operation of such technology during any use of such computers by minors. Allows such authority to: (1) use a technology which filters other material deemed inappropriate for minors; and (2) disable such technology during adult use. Requires schools and libraries with filtering technology already installed to certify compliance with this Act during each annual program application cycle. Requires schools and libraries without such technology to certify during the first program year that they are undertaking the procurement of such technology, and for the second program year to certify that they are in compliance with such requirements. Makes any school or library which is unable to certify compliance in the second program year ineligible for universal services funding for that and any subsequent year until such school or library achieves certification (with a waiver if State or local rules or regulations or bidding requirements prevent the making of such certification).Makes each covered school or library not in compliance with such requirements ineligible for funding under the universal services support program and subject to enforcement actions by the FCC.Allows discounted universal service rates to be: (1) available only for services covered by FCC regulations on priorities for funding telecommunications services (including the Internet) that assign priority for avail…	2025-08-20T14:20:07Z
106-s-2606	106	s	2606	Consumer Privacy Protection Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-23	2000-10-03	Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-1147.	Senate	Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]	SC	D	H000725	10	Consumer Privacy Protection Act - States that this Act preempts State laws and regulations inconsistent with its contents.Title I: Online Privacy - Sets forth operating parameters applicable to Internet service providers, online service providers, and commercial website operators with respect to the user of such service or website and: (1) the collection or disclosure of personally identifiable information; and (2) notice, consent, access and security requirements. Permits disclosure to law enforcement agencies and pursuant to court orders.Title II: Privacy Protection for Consumers of Books, Recorded Music, and Videos - Replaces Federal criminal code prohibition of the wrongful disclosure of video tape rental or sale records with prohibition of the wrongful disclosure of information about video, book, or recorded music rental, sale or delivery. Sets forth liability parameters for a video provider, book dealer, or recorded music dealer who knowingly discloses personally identifiable information concerning a consumer.Title III: Enforcement and Remedies - Vests the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with enforcement authority for violations of this Act. Identifies additional agencies with enforcement authority for violations of online privacy under this Act. Grants a private right of action to persons aggrieved by such violations. Authorizes civil actions by States whose residents have been aggrieved by such violations.(Sec. 305) Sets forth whistleblower protections. Directs the FTC to establish an Office of Online Privacy to study privacy issues associated with electronic commerce and the Internet, the operation of this Act and the efficacy of its privacy protections.Title IV: Communications Technology Privacy Protections - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to extend its privacy protection parameters to subscribers of satellite television services for private home viewing.(Sec. 402) Requires a customer's express prior authorization for access or disclosure by a telecommunications carrier of the customer's proprieta…	2025-08-20T14:19:14Z
106-hr-4500	106	hr	4500	National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-19	2000-05-19	Referred to the House Committee on Science.	House	Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7]	MI	R	S000597	0	National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2000 - Authorizes appropriations to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for FY 2001 and 2002. Prohibits any such funds from being used to employ more than 75 full-time equivalent positions in the Office of the Director for either FY 2001 or 2002.(Sec. 3) Authorizes NSF to make grants for the establishment of regional plant genome and gene expression research and development centers to: (1) develop capabilities in basic plant genome research; (2) extend basic plant genomics research through plant breeding programs and accelerate its application to crop improvement, particularly the development and testing of new varieties of enhanced food crops; and (3) serve as centers for scientific and safety information on plant genomics. Prohibits NSF from providing funds for more than half of the cost of establishing any such research and development center.(Sec. 4) Directs NSF to make grant awards to support research on learning focusing on brain research as a foundation for research on human learning, behavioral, cognitive, affective, and social aspects of such learning, science, mathematics, engineering, and technological learning in formal and informal educational settings, and learning in complex educational systems. Declares that the goals of which such research shall be to integrate scientific disciplines into research on learning, to gain a better understanding of how research and educational practice can be reconciled, and to test, evaluate, and refine hypotheses across disciplines.Requires NSF to make grants for the establishment of centers of research on learning to bring together multidisciplinary teams of researchers to support such research goals.Authorizes NSF to participate in the Interagency Education Research Initiative.Directs NSF to sponsor a conference on human learning and education research to bring together researchers from many disciplines, including the physical sciences, neurological sciences, social sciences, and education practitioners to review …	2025-08-20T14:20:42Z
106-hr-4491	106	hr	4491	National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-18	2000-05-18	Referred to the House Committee on Science.	House	Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7]	MI	R	S000597	0	National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2000 - Authorizes appropriations to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for FY 2001 and 2002, with specific allocations for Research and Related Activities, Education and Human Resources, Major Research Equipment, Salaries and Expenses, and the Office of Inspector General. Prohibits any such funds from being used: (1) for travel expenses, except as provided; and (2) to employ more than 75 full-time equivalent positions in the Office of the Director for either FY 2001 or 2002.(Sec. 3) Authorizes NSF to make grants for the establishment of regional plant genome and gene expression research and development centers to: (1) develop capabilities in basic plant genome research; (2) extend basic plant genomics research through plant breeding programs and accelerate its application to crop improvement; and (3) serve as centers for scientific and safety information on plant genomics. Prohibits NSF from providing funds for more than half of the cost of establishing any such research and development center.((Sec. 4) Directs NSF to make grant awards to support research on learning, focusing on: (1) brain research as a foundation for research on human learning; (2) behavioral, cognitive, affective, and social aspects of learning; (3) science, mathematics, engineering, and technological learning in formal and informal educational settings; and (4) learning in complex educational systems. Specifies the goals of such research to be to integrate scientific disciplines into research on learning, to gain a better understanding of how research and educational practice can be reconciled, and to test, evaluate, and refine hypotheses across disciplines.Requires NSF to make grants for the establishment of centers of research on learning to bring together multidisciplinary teams of researchers to support such research goals.Authorizes NSF to participate in the Interagency Education Research Initiative.Directs NSF to sponsor a conference on human learning and education research to bring to…	2025-08-20T14:19:55Z
106-hr-4477	106	hr	4477	Digital Bridge Trust Fund Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-17	2000-06-28	Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families.	House	Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]	NY	D	T000326	13	Digital Bridge Trust Fund Act - Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to establish in the Treasury the Digital Bridge Trust Fund. Appropriates to the Fund 100 percent of the amounts received by the Treasury after FY 2000 as taxes on communications required under the Internal Revenue Code.Establishes in the Department of Commerce the Board of Trustees of the Digital Bridge Trust Fund to make decisions with respect to allocations authorized under this Act. Requires the Board to submit annual reports to the President and Congress regarding its activities.Requires the Board to ensure that assistance provided herein is: (1) made available for the benefit of rural and urban areas and Native Americans in a manner that targets such assistance for areas, communities, and populations that are underserved with respect to information technology needs, employment, and education; and (2) appropriately allocated. Directs the Board to make such assistance available for FY 2001 through 2010 for: (1) teacher training; (2) community technology centers; (3) neighborhood network learning centers; (4) the Technology Development Fund; (5) the Technology Opportunity Program; (6) rural, urban, and Native American technology training; (7) broadband network deployment; (8) the Home Internet Access Program; and (9) the Falling Through the Net survey (to determine the extent to which Americans have access to telephones, computers, and the Internet). Allows excess amounts to be allocated at the Board's discretion. Authorizes the Board, in any of fiscal years 2006 through 2010, to reduce the amounts of assistance provided during the first five years.Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 through 2010. Repeals this Act on October 1, 2010.Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce from 3 to 1.5 percent, as of October 1, 2000, the excise tax on telephone and other communications services. Expresses the sense of Congress that providers of communications services should not increase service rates base…	2025-08-20T14:16:54Z
106-hr-4485	106	hr	4485	National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-17	2000-05-17	Referred to the House Committee on Science.	House	Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-9]	WI	R	S000244	0	National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2000 - Authorizes appropriations to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for FY 2001 through FY 2004, with specific allocations for Research and Related Activities, Education and Human Resources, Major Research Equipment, Salaries and Expenses, and the Office of Inspector General.(Sec. 3) Authorizes NSF to make grants for the establishment of regional plant genome and gene expression research and development centers to: (1) develop capabilities in basic plant genome research; (2) extend basic plant genomics research through plant breeding programs and accelerate its application to crop improvement; and (3) serve as centers for scientific and safety information on plant genomics. Prohibits NSF from providing funds for more than half of the cost of establishing any such research and development center.(Sec. 4) Directs NSF to make grant awards to support research on learning, focusing on: (1) brain research as a foundation for research on human learning; (2) behavioral, cognitive, affective, and social aspects of learning; (3) science, mathematics, engineering, and technological learning in formal and informal educational settings; and (4) learning in complex educational systems. Specifies the goals of such research to be to integrate scientific disciplines into research on learning, to gain a better understanding of how research and educational practice can be reconciled, and to test, evaluate, and refine hypotheses across disciplines. Requires NSF to make grants for the establishment of centers of research on learning to bring together multidisciplinary teams of researchers to support such research goals.Authorizes NSF to participate in the Interagency Education Research Initiative.Directs NSF to sponsor a conference on human learning and education research to bring together researchers from many disciplines, including the physical sciences, neurological sciences, social sciences, and education practitioners, to review past research on learning, assess current rese…	2025-08-20T14:21:34Z
106-hr-4460	106	hr	4460	Internet Tax Simplification Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-16	2000-06-29	Subcommittee Hearings Held.	House	Rep. Hyde, Henry J. [R-IL-6]	IL	R	H001022	3	Internet Tax Simplification Act of 2000 - Amends Federal law to establish moratoria on State and local Internet taxes.Expresses the sense of Congress that States and local entities should work with the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws to develop a Streamlined Uniform Sales and Use Tax Act. Authorizes, and grants congressional consent for, States to enter into an Interstate Sales and Use Tax Compact. Stipulates that such authorization and consent shall terminate if the Compact has not been formed by a certain date.Authorizes States to administer a single uniform statewide use tax rate for all remote sales under specified circumstances.Expresses the sense of Congress that States and local entities should continue to work with the telecommunications industry to simplify and unify telecommunications taxes.Makes a conforming amendment to the Trade Act of 1974 and other Federal law.	2025-08-20T14:17:45Z
106-hr-4462	106	hr	4462	Fair and Equitable Interstate Tax Compact Simplification Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-16	2000-06-29	Subcommittee Hearings Held.	House	Rep. Bachus, Spencer [R-AL-6]	AL	R	B000013	3	Fair and Equitable Interstate Tax Compact Simplification Act of 2000 - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to extend the moratorium on Internet taxes through October 21, 2006.Expresses the sense of the Congress concerning a streamlined sales and use tax system.Authorizes States to enter into an Interstate Sales and Use Tax Compact which shall provide for a uniform, streamlined sales and use tax system.Authorizes any State levying a sales tax to administer a single uniform statewide use tax rate relating to all remote sales on which it assesses a use tax, subject to a specified limit.Permits any member State that has adopted and participates in the streamlined system prescribed by the Compact to require all sellers not qualifying for the de minimis exception specified in such system to collect and remit use taxes on remote sales in such State, subject to limitations.	2025-08-20T14:19:19Z
106-hr-4473	106	hr	4473	Computers in Our Community Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-16	2000-06-28	Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families.	House	Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]	MD	D	W000784	3	Computers in Our Community Act - Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to establish a Computers in Our Community Program.(Sec. 3) Directs the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretary), acting through the Assistant Secretary, to make grants to participating SEAs for allocation among local educational agencies (LEAs). Allows such funds to be used for: (1) purchase of computers that meet a minimum standard as determined by the Secretary; (2) the electrical wiring that schools may require to connect computers to each other and to the Internet; and (3) hiring technological assistants to ensure that each school has access to a trained computer professional to provide technology training for teachers and perform maintenance of computer systems. Allows the use of such funds to pay a maximum of one technological assistant per: (1) five elementary schools; (2) three middle schools; and (3) two high schools.Directs the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary, to award competitive grants to the following entities for the following programs: (1) nonprofit organizations, to establish job training programs for preparing low-income individuals for computer and technology related jobs (digital divide workforce training initiative); (2) community centers and libraries, to provide greater access to, instruction on, and assistance with computers and the Internet (technology access); (3) institutions of higher education (IHEs) that create successful partnerships between their education and computer departments to create software or Internet applications to train teachers in using computers, and using computers to teach students or to use in the classroom to teach students (computer curriculum partnership). Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Education to develop a clearinghouse to make available to other schools throughout the Nation information derived from activities of IHE recipients of curriculum partnership grants.Authorizes appropriations.(Sec. 4) Amends the Internal…	2025-08-20T14:20:45Z
106-s-2572	106	s	2572	FASTNET Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-16	2000-05-16	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	Senate	Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]	MT	R	B001126	5	Facilitating Access to Speedy Transmissions for Networks, E-commerce, and Telecommunications Act or FASTNET Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to define a "two percent carrier" as a local telecommunications exchange carrier with fewer than two percent of the Nation's subscriber lines installed in the aggregate nationwide.Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in adopting rules that apply to incumbent local exchange carriers, to adopt separate and less burdensome rules and requirements for two percent carriers which take into account the more limited resources available to such carriers and the greater burden such rules impose on such carriers and their customers. Authorizes a two percent carrier to seek a waiver or reconsideration of an adopted rule which does not impose less burdensome rules and requirements upon such carriers.Prohibits the FCC from requiring a two percent carrier to file cost allocation manuals or Automated Reporting and Management Information Systems.Prohibits the FCC from adopting or enforcing any regulation which impairs the ability of a two percent carrier to integrate its operations in one or more entities, at its discretion.States that the participation or withdrawal from participation by a two percent carrier of one or more study areas in the common line tariff administered and filed by the National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) or any successor tariff or administrator shall not obligate such carrier to participate or withdraw from participation in such tariff for any other study area. Authorizes a two percent carrier to elect to be regulated by the FCC under price cap regulation, or to withdraw from such regulation, for one or more of its study areas at any time.Prohibits the FCC from reviewing any mergers or acquisitions between two percent carriers or their affiliates.Permits two percent carriers to introduce new telecommunications services by filing a tariff on one day's notice, without making any other showing before the FCC in advance of such filing.All…	2025-08-20T14:17:52Z
106-hr-4445	106	hr	4445	Reciprocal Compensation Adjustment Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-15	2000-09-14	Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.	House	Rep. Tauzin, W. J. (Billy) [R-LA-3]	LA	R	T000058	3	Reciprocal Compensation Adjustment Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to mandate that no local telecommunications exchange carrier shall be required to make any payment for the transport or termination of telecommunications to the Internet or any provider of Internet access services. Considers such transport or termination as interstate commerce and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission. States that such exemption shall not affect the rights of any parties to interconnection agreements in effect on May 15, 2000. Mandates that a local exchange carrier is not required to offer to any other carrier any reciprocal compensation arrangement that is inconsistent with this Act and that is in an agreement in effect before such date.	2025-08-20T14:18:50Z
106-hr-4455	106	hr	4455	Email Address Forward Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-15	2000-05-18	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]	IL	D	S001145	1	Email Address Forward Act - Directs the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe rules to prevent anticompetitive practices in the provision of electronic mail services by requiring any person who provides an electronic mailbox for commercial purposes to any subscriber to forward electronic mail to that subscriber, or to provide a forwarding electronic mail address for that subscriber, for six months after the mailbox subscription is terminated. Exempts from such requirements electronic mail services provided by an employer or principal to an employee or agent for the performance of employment functions. Authorizes an attorney general of a State to bring an enforcement action on behalf of residents of that State.	2025-08-20T14:17:31Z
106-s-2542	106	s	2542	Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-11	2000-05-11	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	Senate	Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]	MT	R	B001126	4	Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2000 - Prohibits any person from sending an unsolicited commercial electronic mail (e-mail) message unless the message contains a valid and legitimately obtained e-mail address, conspicuously displayed, to which a recipient may send notice of a desire not to receive further messages. Prohibits a person from sending other unsolicited commercial e-mail messages more than ten days after receiving a notice to discontinue. Prohibits any person from sending such messages with a false or misleading transmission address or false or misleading routing information. Prohibits a person from selling, distributing, or possessing software primarily designed to falsify message transmission or routing information and having limited commercially significant purposes other than such falsification.(Sec. 5) Authorizes an Internet service provider (ISP) to decline to transmit such messages to its subscribers without compensation from the sender. Holds harmless an ISP for any action taken to block the transmission or receipt of such messages, or for the retransmission of such messages as an intermediary without knowledge that the transmission violates this Act.(Sec. 6) Prohibits a person from using or disclosing domain name registration data if: (1) such use violates policies of that registrar that are clearly posted on its website; and (2) the data is used for transmitting or enabling the transmission of unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail. Holds harmless (with limitations) a registrar that fails or refuses to disclose such information on good faith that the information would be used to perform a prohibited act.(Sec. 7) Outlines procedures for Federal Trade Commission (FTC) notification of alleged violators concerning the transmission of unsolicited commercial e-mail. Requires such notification to: (1) direct the person to discontinue further transmissions of such e-mail; (2) direct the person to immediately delete the e-mail addresses of such recipients from its…	2025-08-20T14:20:15Z
106-hr-4414	106	hr	4414	To amend the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 to require Federal agencies to impose certain requirements on recipients of awards for scientific and engineering research.	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-10	2000-05-15	Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology.	House	Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]	MI	R	E000092	1	Amends the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 to require guidelines on government use of the metric system of measurement to require any Federal agency transaction providing for a person to perform scientific or engineering research with Federal funding to include provisions: (1) clearly identifying the extent to which such system or other systems of measurement will be used under the transaction and requiring such use; and (2) assigning such person the financial responsibility for failure to follow such requirements.	2025-01-02T17:14:02Z
106-s-2518	106	s	2518	FM Radio Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-08	2000-05-08	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	Senate	Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]	AZ	R	M000303	0	FM Radio Act of 2000 - Requires any low power radio licensee that transmits a signal causing harmful interference to the signal of any full power radio station to cease transmission of all signals and to refrain from recommencing such transmission until it has taken all steps required by the National Academy of Sciences to ensure that such transmission will not cause such interference to the signal of any full power radio station.Authorizes full power radio stations to bring an action for the enforcement of such requirement, with the burden of proof borne by the low power radio licensee.Directs the Federal Communications Commission to complete all rulemakings necessary to implement the transition to digital radio no later than June 1, 2001.	2025-08-20T14:20:27Z
106-hr-4391	106	hr	4391	Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-04	2000-07-28	Became Public Law No: 106-252.	House	Rep. Hyde, Henry J. [R-IL-6]	IL	R	H001022	4	Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act - Amends Federal provisions concerning tax authority to deem mobile telecommunications services provided in a taxing jurisdiction as provided by the customer's home service provider. Subjects charges for such services to taxation by the taxing jurisdiction whose territorial limits encompass the customer's place of primary use, regardless of where the services originate, terminate, or pass through. Prohibits any other taxing jurisdiction from imposing any tax, charge, or fee for such services.Authorizes a State or designated database provider to provide an electronic database to a home service provider which designates for each street address the appropriate taxing jurisdiction as identified by a nationwide standard numeric code. Requires the database provider to provide notice of the availability of such database, as well as subsequent revisions thereto. Holds harmless from any fee liability a home service provider that uses such database. Holds a provider harmless from any such liability in the absence of such a database if the provider employs an enhanced zip code to assign each street address to a specific taxing jurisdiction and exercises due diligence to ensure that each address is assigned to the correct taxing jurisdiction. Requires one specific taxing jurisdiction to be assigned when an enhanced zip code overlaps boundaries of different taxing jurisdictions. Terminates the authority to use the enhanced zip code on the later of: (1) 18 months after the nationwide standard numeric code has been approved; or (2) six months after a State or designated database provider provides such database.Authorizes a taxing jurisdiction, or a State acting on behalf of such jurisdiction, to: (1) determine the place of primary use for purposes of appropriate taxing authority; and (2) if necessary, notify a home service provider to change the assignment of a taxing authority to reflect the appropriate place of primary use. Requires the home service provider to obtain and maintain the cu…	2025-04-07T13:46:39Z
106-s-2497	106	s	2497	Media Violence Labeling Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-02	2000-05-02	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	Senate	Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]	AZ	R	M000303	1	Media Violence Labeling Act of 2000 - Amends the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to state that it is the policy of Congress to provide for the establishment, use, and enforcement of a consistent and comprehensive system for labeling violent content in audio and visual media products and services, including with regard to the appropriateness of such products and services for minors. Includes within such products and services interactive video game products and services, video program products, motion picture products, and sound recording products.Authorizes manufacturers and producers of such products and services to submit to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a joint proposal for a system for labeling the violent content of such products and services. Outlines labeling system requirements, including that: (1) such product shall specify a minimum age for purchase and viewing; and (2) the label should appear conspicuously on the product.Requires the FTC to review any proposal that is submitted by such manufacturers and producers within 180 days after the enactment of this Act to determine if it meets such requirements. Requires the FTC to issue a labeling system within 180 days after commencing a review of such proposal. Directs the FTC to establish its own labeling system if a proposal is not submitted.Prohibits a person from manufacturing or producing such a product or service unless it bears a label meeting requirements of this Act. Prohibits a person, from the same date, from selling such product or service to an individual whose age is less than the minimum age specified under the labeling system. Provides defenses for violations, including a good-faith effort to comply with such requirements.Empowers the attorney general of a State to investigate allegations of violations of this Act. Provides civil penalties for violations.Renames the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act as the Federal Cigarette and Media Violence Labeling and Advertising Act.	2025-08-20T14:20:00Z
106-s-2498	106	s	2498	A bill to authorize the Smithsonian Institution to plan, design, construct, and equip laboratory, administrative, and support space to house base operations for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Submillimeter Array located on Mauna Kea at Hilo, Hawaii.	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-05-02	2000-10-27	Became Public Law No: 106-383.	Senate	Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY]	NY	D	M001054	2	Authorizes the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to plan, design, construct, and equip laboratory, administrative, and support space to house base operations for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Submillimeter Array located on Mauna Kea at Hilo, Hawaii.Authorizes appropriations.	2025-04-07T13:46:30Z
106-s-2476	106	s	2476	Universal Service Support Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-04-27	2000-04-27	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	Senate	Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]	MT	R	B001126	7	Universal Service Support Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from enforcing its regulations limiting the annual amount of the total nationwide loop (connection) costs to be paid from the Universal Service Fund. Prohibits the FCC from: (1) enforcing individual caps imposed on carriers in connection with requests for study area waivers; or (2) imposing any new cap that would limit the per-loop support calculated under FCC regulations.Requires the FCC to calculate: (1) high-cost (in excess of 115 percent of the nationwide average) loop support portions; and (2) the nationwide average of such support.	2025-08-20T14:20:47Z
106-hr-4267	106	hr	4267	Internet Tax Reform and Reduction Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-04-13	2000-06-29	Subcommittee Hearings Held.	House	Rep. Hyde, Henry J. [R-IL-6]	IL	R	H001022	3	Internet Tax Reform and Reduction Act of 2000 - Amends Federal law to: (1) place a permanent moratorium on State and local taxes on Internet access; and (2) extend moratoriums applicable to multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic taxes, and taxes on sales of digitized goods and products.Sets forth specified Internet-and telecommunication-related factors that shall not be sufficient to create a jurisdictional tax nexus respecting a seller and purchaser who are not present in the same State.Expresses the sense of the Congress respecting: (1) development of a Uniform Sales and Use Tax Act; and (2) elimination of the excessive telecommunications tax burden.Establishes an Advisory Commission on Uniform Sales and Use Tax.	2025-08-20T14:16:56Z
106-hr-4281	106	hr	4281	ICCVAM Authorization Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-04-13	2000-12-19	Became Public Law No: 106-545.	House	Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-43]	CA	R	C000059	73	ICCVAM Authorization Act of 2000 - Defines "alternative test method" as a test method that reduces the number of animals required, refines procedures to lessen or eliminate pain or distress to animals, enhances animal well-being, or replaces animals with non-animal systems or one animal species with a lower animal species, such as replacing a mammal with an invertebrate.(Sec. 3) Makes the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) a permanent interagency coordinating committee of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.Sets forth ICCVAM objectives, including: (1) increasing the efficiency of Federal test method review; and (2) reducing animal testing where feasible.Directs the Institute to establish a Scientific Advisory Committee.Sets forth ICCVAM duties.(Sec. 4) Requires each Federal agency to: (1) identify and forward to ICCVAM any test method specified in a regulation or guideline that requires or recommends animal testing; (2) promote valid alternative test methods if the alternatives are effective for generating data (in an amount and of a scientific value that is at least equivalent to the data generated from existing tests) for hazard identification, dose-response assessment, or risk assessment; and (3) adopt ICCVAM recommendations unless the agency finds that the recommendations are inadequate or unsatisfactory.(Sec. 5) Makes this Act inapplicable to research related to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, or prevention of physical or mental diseases or impairments of humans or animals.	2025-04-07T13:47:21Z
106-s-2448	106	s	2448	Internet Integrity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-04-13	2000-10-05	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 941.	Senate	Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]	UT	R	H000338	3	Internet Integrity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2000 - Directs the Attorney General (AG) to appoint a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Computer Crime and Intellectual Property (Deputy Assistant) to: (1) advise Federal prosecutors and law enforcement personnel regarding computer and intellectual property crime; (2) coordinate national and international activities for combating such crime; (3) guide and assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies and personnel, as well as appropriate foreign entities, regarding responses to threats of such crimes; and (4) undertake related coordinating, training, and legislative recommendation activities. Requires the individual who holds the position of head of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Department of Justice to act as the Deputy Assistant until the AG appoints another individual to that Section position. Authorizes appropriations for such Section.(Sec. 3) Amends the Federal criminal code to apply the protection from computer extortion provisions only to persons (currently, also to many other institutions and entities). Provides criminal penalties for engaging in fraudulent access and related activities in connection with protected computers, including: (1) when the offense causes aggregate losses of at least $5,000; (2) when the offense causes the modification or impairment of medical diagnosis, treatment, or care; (3) when the offense causes a physical injury to any person; (4) when the offense causes a threat to public health or safety; or (5) when the offense damages a computer system used by or for a government entity in the administration of justice, national defense, or national security. Increases the prison term for a succeeding conviction of the same offense.(Sec. 4) Requires the criminal and civil forfeiture of any property used in committing such offenses, as well as any property constituting or derived from proceeds from such offense.(Sec. 6) Includes such offenses when committed by juveniles as offe…	2025-07-21T19:32:26Z
106-s-2454	106	s	2454	A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize low-power television stations to provide digital data services to subscribers.	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-04-13	2000-09-20	Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.	Senate	Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]	MT	R	B001126	1	Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize a low-power television (TV) station to utilize its authorized spectrum to provide digital data services to the public by subscription. Requires prior notification to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of such intent. Prohibits the FCC from authorizing any new service, station, or modification that would displace or interfere with a low-power station providing such services. Directs the FCC to prevent interference with TV signal reception from low-power stations providing such services.	2025-01-14T18:51:33Z
106-hr-4246	106	hr	4246	Cyber Security Information Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-04-12	2000-07-27	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1355-1357)	House	Rep. Davis, Tom [R-VA-11]	VA	R	D000136	7	Cyber Security Information Act - Authorizes any Federal entity to expressly designate a request for the voluntary provision of information relating to cyber security (defined as the vulnerability of any computing system, software program, or critical infrastructure to, or its ability to resist, intentional interference, compromise, or incapacitation through misuse of the Internet or public or private telecommunications systems or other similar conduct that violates Federal, State, or international law, harms interstate commerce, or threatens public health or safety), including cyber security statements (conveyances of information by means of a cyber security Internet website relating to cyber security), as a cyber security data gathering request.Specifies that such a request shall: (1) specify an entity to gather responses to the request; (2) be from a private entity to a Federal entity; or (3) be deemed to have been made and to have specified such a private entity when the Federal entity has voluntarily been given cyber security information gathered by that private entity, including by means of a cyber security Internet website.Provides that a cyber security statement or other such information provided by a party in response to a request: (1) shall be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act; (2) shall not be disclosed to or by any third party; and (3) may not be used by any Federal or State entity or by any third party in any civil action arising under Federal or State law. Makes exceptions regarding separately obtained information submitted in response to a request through the use of independent legal authorities and regarding information disclosed generally or broadly to the public with the express consent of the party.(Sec. 5) Makes the antitrust laws inapplicable to conduct engaged in solely for facilitating or communicating about the correction or avoidance of a cyber security related problem. Makes an exception with respect to conduct that involves or results in an agreement to boycott …	2026-03-23T12:17:56Z
106-hr-4201	106	hr	4201	Noncommercial Broadcasting Freedom of Expression Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-04-06	2000-09-05	Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 779.	House	Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3]	MS	R	P000323	33	Noncommercial Broadcasting Freedom of Expression Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow a nonprofit organization to hold a noncommercial educational (NCE) radio or television license if the station is used primarily to broadcast material that such organization or entity determines serves an educational, instructional, cultural, or religious purpose in that community, unless such determination is arbitrary or unreasonable.Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from: (1) imposing or enforcing any quantitative requirement on NCE licenses based on the number of hours of programming that serve such purposes; or (2) imposing or enforcing any other programming content requirement on an NCE license that is not imposed on a licensee, permittee, or applicant for a commercial radio or television license. Specifies that NCE licensees remain subject to applicable provisions of the Children's Television Act and the requirements of the Public Broadcasting Act.Exempts NCE stations from requirements to make broadcast stations accessible to political candidates and directs the FCC to amend its rules governing political broadcasting to provide that such rules do not apply to NCE stations.Requires each public telecommunications entity that receives funds from donors to undergo an annual audit (current law) which shall include a determination of such entity's compliance with donor privacy protection requirements.Prohibits the FCC from establishing, expanding, or otherwise modifying requirements relating to the service obligations of noncommercial educational radio or television stations except by means of agency rulemaking.	2025-04-07T13:47:21Z
106-hr-4202	106	hr	4202	Internet Services Promotion Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-04-06	2000-05-03	Subcommittee Hearings Held.	House	Rep. Ehrlich, Robert L., Jr. [R-MD-2]	MD	R	E000093	0	Internet Services Promotion Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from imposing on any provider of Internet access service any contribution for the support of universal service or any access charge based on a measure of the time that telecommunications services are used in the provision of Internet access service.Prohibits FCC regulatory fees from being imposed on such providers.Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to extend through October 21, 2006, a moratorium on the imposition of taxes upon such providers.	2025-08-20T14:18:16Z
106-hr-4176	106	hr	4176	Information Technology Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-04-04	2000-05-17	Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning.	House	Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]	NY	D	N000002	22	Information Technology Act of 2000 - Authorizes the Secretaries of Education and Labor, acting jointly, to make grants to eligible partnerships (made up of an institution of higher education and a private organization such as a certified training provider) to pay the Federal share (50 percent) of establishing and carrying out information technology training programs for minorities, women, older individuals, veterans, Native Americans, dislocated workers and former program participants who have not received certification. Authorizes appropriations.Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to appropriate organizations for awarding bonuses to teachers who achieve information technology certification. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 through 2005.	2025-08-20T14:19:22Z
106-s-2347	106	s	2347	Information Technology Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-04-04	2000-10-03	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9647)	Senate	Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]	ND	D	C000705	7	Information Technology Act of 2000 - Authorizes the Secretaries of Education and Labor, acting jointly, to make grants to eligible partnerships (made up of an institution of higher education and a private organization such as a certified training provider) to pay the Federal share (50 percent) of establishing and carrying out information technology training programs for minorities, women, older individuals, veterans, Native Americans, dislocated workers and former program participants who have not received certification. Authorizes appropriations.Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to appropriate organizations for awarding bonuses to teachers who achieve information technology certification. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 through 2005.	2025-08-20T14:18:49Z
106-s-2336	106	s	2336	Networking and Information Technology Research and Development for Department of Energy Missions Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-03-30	2000-03-30	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1994-1995)	Senate	Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]	NM	D	B000468	5	Networking and Information Technology Research and Development for Department of Energy Missions Act - Amends the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 to direct the Secretary of Energy to: (1) conduct an integrated program of research, development, and provision of facilities to develop and deploy to scientific and technical users the high-performance computing and collaboration tools needed to fulfill the statutory missions of the Department of Energy (DOE); and (2) provide specified funds in each fiscal year for a program of collaborative projects involving remote access to high-performance computing assets or remote experimentation over network facilities, giving high priority to cross-disciplinary projects that involve more than one office within the DOE Office of Science, or that couple such Office with DOE energy technology offices.Authorizes laboratories administered by the National Nuclear Security Administration to compete for funding authorized in this Act.Authorizes appropriations for FY2001through 2005.	2026-03-24T12:48:03Z
106-hr-4122	106	hr	4122	Rural Broadband Enhancement Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-03-29	2000-04-10	Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Resource Conservation and Credit.	House	Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]	MI	D	S001045	5	Rural Broadband Enhancement Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission to initiate a proceeding to provide Federal universal service support for the deployment of broadband telecommunications service (high speed voice, data, graphic, and video telecommunications) to eligible rural communities ( non-metropolitan areas with no more than 20,000 inhabitants).Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administrative Organization Act to direct the Rural Utilities Service of the Department of Agriculture to make loans or other credit extensions to eligible telecommunications carrier providers, or to companies that accept the obligations of such carriers, to finance the deployment of broadband service to eligible rural communities.Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 through 2005.	2025-08-20T14:19:58Z
106-s-2316	106	s	2316	Commercial Space Partnership Act of 1999	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-03-29	2000-03-29	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	Senate	Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]	FL	D	G000352	2	Commercial Space Partnership Act of 1999 - Authorizes the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to enter into a lease with any person or entity with regard to any real or personal property under the Administrator's jurisdiction for an initial term of up to 20 years and for fair market value. Permits consideration to take one or more of the following forms: (1) the payment of cash; (2) the construction or improvement of facilities on real property under the Administrator's jurisdiction; (3) the provision of services to NASA, including launch services and payload processing services; or (4) in the case of a lease of real property, use by NASA of facilities on the property.	2025-08-20T14:20:58Z
106-s-2326	106	s	2326	Wireless Eavesdropping Protection Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-03-29	2000-03-29	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1911-1912)	Senate	Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]	OR	D	W000779	1	Wireless Eavesdropping Protection Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit modifying any electronic communication device, equipment, or system in a manner which causes it to fail to comply with regulations governing electronic eavesdropping devices. Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prescribe regulations (and review and revise them when necessary in response to changes in technology and behavior) denying equipment authorization for any scanning receiver capable of: (1) receiving transmissions in frequencies allocated to the domestic cellular or personal communications service; (2) being readily altered to receive such transmissions; (3) being equipped with decoders that convert domestic cellular or personal communications service or protected specialized mobile radio service transmissions to analog voice audio, or which convert protected paging service transmissions to alphanumeric text; or (4) being equipped with devices that otherwise encode encrypted radio transmissions for purposes of unauthorized interception.Directs the FCC, with respect to scanning receivers capable of receiving transmissions in frequencies used by commercial mobile services and that are shared by public safety users, to examine methods and prescribe regulations to enhance the privacy of users of such frequencies. Requires tampering prevention measures and warning labels to be considered by the FCC in prescribing such regulations.Applies penalties for the unauthorized publication or use of electronic communications to the unauthorized receipt, intentional interception, or intentional divulgence of any such communication. Directs the FCC to investigate alleged violations and proceed to initiate action to impose forfeiture penalties.	2025-08-20T14:18:45Z
106-s-2307	106	s	2307	Rural Broadband Enhancement Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-03-28	2000-10-02	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9599-9600)	Senate	Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]	ND	D	D000432	11	Rural Broadband Enhancement Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission to initiate a proceeding to provide Federal universal service support for the deployment of broadband telecommunications service (high speed voice, data, graphic, and video telecommunications) to eligible rural communities ( non-metropolitan areas with no more than 20,000 inhabitants).Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administrative Organization Act to direct the Rural Utilities Service of the Department of Agriculture to make loans or other credit extensions to eligible telecommunications carrier providers, or to companies that accept the obligations of such carriers, to finance the deployment of broadband service to eligible rural communities.Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 through 2005.	2025-08-20T14:20:21Z
106-s-2255	106	s	2255	A bill to amend the Internet Tax Freedom Act to extend the moratorium through calendar year 2006.	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-03-21	2000-04-12	Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 106-1107.	Senate	Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]	AZ	R	M000303	5	Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to extend, until December 31, 2006, provisions which prohibit a State or political subdivision from imposing: (1) taxes on Internet access, unless such tax was generally imposed and actually enforced prior to October 1, 1998; and (2) multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.	2025-01-14T18:51:33Z
106-hr-4019	106	hr	4019	Telecommunications Merger Review Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-03-16	2000-06-27	Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.	House	Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3]	MS	R	P000323	12	Telecommunications Merger Review Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in any proceeding to approve an application to assign or transfer control of a telecommunications license, permit, or certificate, from: (1) denying such application unless such assignment will result in a violation of FCC rules and such violation cannot be cured by a conditional approval; or (2) conditioning such approval except to the extent necessary to ensure compliance with such rules. Requires all action on such applications to be completed within 90 days after FCC receipt, unless the applicant requests an extension. Provides a 60-day deadline with respect to FCC action on an application for the acquisition by one local exchange carrier or its affiliate of the securities or assets of another local exchange carrier in which the acquiring carrier does not, and after such acquisition will not, have ownership or control of more than two percent of the subscriber lines installed in the aggregate in the United States.	2025-08-20T14:18:52Z
106-hconres-285	106	hconres	285	Expressing the sense of Congress regarding Internet security and "cyberterrorism".	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-03-15	2000-03-27	Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.	House	Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]	NJ	R	S000097	45	Designates cyberterrorism as an emerging threat to the national security of the United States and the nation's electronic infrastructure. Calls for: (1) a partnership between the Federal Government and private industry in combating the cyber menace; (2) a revised legal framework for the prosecution of hackers and cyberterrorists; and (3) a new interagency study to be conducted by the Departments of Commerce and Defense, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to assess the threat posed by cyberterrorists.	2025-04-07T13:42:35Z
106-hr-3850	106	hr	3850	Independent Telecommunications Consumer Enhancement Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-03-08	2000-10-04	Received in the Senate.	House	Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]	WY	R	C000962	33	Independent Telecommunications Consumer Enhancement Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to define a "two percent carrier" as an incumbent local telecommunications exchange carrier with fewer than two percent of the Nation's subscriber lines installed in the aggregate nationwide.Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in adopting rules that apply to incumbent local exchange carriers, to separately evaluate the burden that any proposed regulatory, compliance, or reporting requirements would have on two percent carriers. Authorizes a two percent carrier to seek a waiver or reconsideration of an adopted rule which does not separately evaluate such burden upon such carriers.Prohibits the FCC from requiring a two percent carrier to file cost allocation manuals or Automated Reporting and Management Information systems (but requires a two percent carrier that qualifies as a class A carrier to annually certify to the FCC that such carrier's cost allocation complies with FCC rules).Prohibits the FCC from requiring any two percent carrier to establish or maintain a separate affiliate to provide any common carrier or noncommon carrier services, or to maintain separate officers, personnel, facilities, books or accounts, or other operations.States that the participation or withdrawal from participation by a two percent carrier of one or more study areas in the common line tariff administered and filed by the National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) or any successor tariff or administrator shall not obligate such carrier to participate or withdraw from participation in such tariff for any other study area. Authorizes a two percent carrier to elect to be regulated by the FCC under price cap regulation, or to withdraw from such regulation, for one or more of its study areas at any time.Directs the FCC to permit two percent carriers to introduce new telecommunications services by filing a tariff on one day's notice, without making any other showing before the FCC in advance of such filing.Allows an…	2025-04-07T13:47:21Z
106-s-2215	106	s	2215	Noncommercial Broadcasting Eligibility Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-03-08	2000-03-08	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	Senate	Sen. Hutchinson, Tim [R-AR]	AR	R	H001015	1	Noncommercial Broadcasting Eligibility Act of 2000 - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to treat a nonprofit private foundation, corporation, or association (entity) as a noncommercial educational broadcast station or public broadcast station, for purposes of FCC licensing requirements, if the majority of the radio or television broadcast by such entity is substantially related to a tax-exempt purpose as defined under the Internal Revenue Code. Directs the FCC to use tax-exempt standards of the Internal Revenue Service for making such determination.	2025-08-20T14:21:35Z
106-s-2183	106	s	2183	Amateur Radio Spectrum Protection Act of 1999	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-03-06	2000-03-06	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	Senate	Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]	ID	R	C000880	11	Amateur Radio Spectrum Protection Act of 1999 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from making any reallocations of amateur radio service and amateur satellite service frequency bands, diminishing the secondary allocations of such bands, or making additional allocations within such bands that would substantially reduce their utility unless at the same time the FCC provides equivalent replacement spectrum.	2025-08-20T14:20:38Z
106-s-2127	106	s	2127	Children's Protection Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-03-01	2000-09-14	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8607-8608)	Senate	Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]	KS	R	B000953	0	Children's Protection Act of 2000 - Exempts from Federal antitrust laws any collaborative efforts by or among persons in the entertainment industry to develop and disseminate voluntary guidelines designed to: (1) alleviate the negative impact of television, movies, video games, Internet content, and music lyrics containing violence, sexual content, criminal behavior, or other subjects that are inappropriate for children; or (2) promote telecast material that is educational, informational, or otherwise beneficial to the development of children. States that such exemption shall not apply to any efforts which: (1) result in a boycott of any person; or (2) concern the purchase or sale of advertising.	2025-08-20T14:18:27Z
106-hr-3709	106	hr	3709	Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-02-29	2000-05-18	Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 556.	House	Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-47]	CA	R	C000830	12	Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2000 - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to prohibit, until October 21, 2006, a State or political subdivision from imposing: (1) taxes on Internet access, including such taxes generally imposed and actually enforced prior to October 21, 1998; and (2) multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.Expresses the sense of the Congress that a State tax relating to electronic commerce, to avoid being multiple or discriminatory, should include, among other things: (1) a centralized, one-stop, multi-State registration system for sellers; (2) uniform definitions for goods or services that might be included in the tax base; (3) uniform and simple rules for attributing transactions to particular taxing jurisdictions; (4) uniform procedures for the certification of software that sellers rely on to determine non-multiple and non-discriminatory taxes and taxability; and (5) consistent electronic filing and remittance methods.	2025-04-07T13:46:46Z
106-s-2097	106	s	2097	Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-02-24	2000-04-03	Held at the desk.	Senate	Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]	MT	R	B001126	20	Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act of 2000 - Establishes the Local Television Loan Guarantee Board to approve or disapprove loan guarantees under this Act. Allows loan guarantees to be approved only to the extent provided for in advance in appropriations Acts. Authorizes the Board to delegate to the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service the authority to approve loan guarantees of up to $20 million.Requires such loans to be used to finance the means by which local television (TV) broadcast signals, including high- speed Internet access and National Weather Service (NWS) warnings, will be delivered to an unserved or underserved area, with a loan priority for unserved areas. States that the Board should give additional consideration to projects which also provide related signals, such as Internet access and NWS warnings. Prohibits the Board from approving a loan which will serve one of the 40 most populated designated market areas.Limits such loans to 80 percent of the total cost of a project, with a total loan aggregate value limit of $1.25 billion.Requires the Administrator to administer all loan guarantees approved under this Act. Requires loan applicants to enter into stipulated performance schedules with respect to the local TV signals to be provided through the project.Outlines procedures governing loan application and credit requirements, default procedures, and recovery of payments for breach of conditions.Authorizes the Board to charge and collect a loan guarantee fee and use such fee to cover administrative costs.Requires an annual audit and report concerning the loan guarantee program.Prohibits any loan guarantee from being approved after December 31, 2006.Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 through 2006.	2025-04-07T13:47:21Z
106-s-2057	106	s	2057	Motorists Privacy Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-02-10	2000-02-10	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S617)	Senate	Sen. Murkowski, Frank H. [R-AK]	AK	R	M001085	1	Motorists Privacy Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit any person from installing, posting, operating, or otherwise using an electronic measurement unit (defined as a device that determines the radio frequency of a radio receiver within a passing vehicle).	2025-08-20T14:21:22Z
106-s-2068	106	s	2068	Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-02-10	2000-02-10	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S626)	Senate	Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]	NH	R	G000445	35	Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000 - Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from prescribing any rules authorizing the operation of new, low power FM radio stations, or establishing a low power radio service, as currently proposed.Terminates previously prescribed rules which would violate such prohibition and voids licenses issued pursuant to such rules.	2025-08-20T14:18:38Z
106-s-2046	106	s	2046	Federal Research Investment Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-02-09	2000-10-02	Referred to the Subcommittee on Basic Research.	Senate	Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]	TN	R	F000439	8	Federal Research Investment Act - Title I: Federal Research Investment - Calls for: (1) Federal research and development programs to be conducted in accordance with specified guiding principles with respect to good science, fiscal accountability, program effectiveness, and criteria for government funding; and (2) doubling Federal basic research funding over 11 years.Authorizes aggregate funding levels for civilian research and development (R&D) in specified agencies for FY 2000 through 2011. Sets forth requirements for adjusting amounts received by agencies for which appropriations for R&D increase by more than eight percent in a covered fiscal year.(Sec. 106) Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology to submit annually to Congress a report providing: (1) a summary of the total level of Federal funding for R&D by civilian agencies; (2) a strategy reflecting funding projections of this Act; (3) an analysis of funding levels across Federal agencies by funding methodology; (4) a Federal strategy for infrastructure development and R&D capacity building in States with less concentrated R&D resources; and (5) an analysis of total funding for R&D programs throughout all Federal agencies compared with the previous year.(Sec. 107) Requires the Director to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a comprehensive study to develop methods for evaluating federally-funded R&D programs. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), based on study results, to promulgate one or more alternative forms for Federal R&D performance goals. Permits an agency head to apply such an alternative form without further authorization by OMB. Requires agency heads carrying out R&D activities, upon updating a strategic plan, to describe the current and future use of methods for determining an acceptable level of R&D success as recommended by the study. Authorizes appropriations for the study.(Sec. 108) Requires the OMB Director, based upon program performance reports, to i…	2025-04-07T13:42:48Z
106-s-2036	106	s	2036	A bill to make permanent the moratorium on the imposition of taxes on the Internet.	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-02-07	2000-02-08	Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 431.	Senate	Sen. Smith, Bob [R-NH]	NH	R	S000606	0	Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to permanently extend the moratorium on the imposition of taxes on the Internet.	2025-04-07T13:42:35Z
106-s-2028	106	s	2028	Internet Non-discrimination Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-02-03	2000-02-03	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S329)	Senate	Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]	OR	D	W000779	2	Internet Non-discrimination Act - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to permanently extend provisions which prohibited a State or political subdivision from imposing, during the period beginning on October 1, 1998, and ending 3 years after the date of the enactment of such Act: (1) taxes on Internet access, unless such tax was generally imposed and actually enforced prior to October 1, 1998; and (2) multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.	2025-08-20T14:21:01Z
106-s-2029	106	s	2029	Know Your Caller Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-02-03	2000-09-20	Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.	Senate	Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]	TN	R	F000439	19	Know Your Caller Act of 2000 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make it unlawful for any person or entity making a telephone solicitation to interfere with or circumvent a caller identification service from accessing or providing the call recipient with identifying information about the call.Directs the Federal Communications Commission to prescribe regulations implementing such prohibition. Provides a cause of action for a person or entity, or a State attorney general on behalf of its residents, for violations of such prohibition or regulations.	2025-08-20T14:17:15Z
106-hr-3555	106	hr	3555	To ensure the efficient allocation of telephone numbers.	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-01-31	2000-02-04	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]	NJ	R	F000372	0	Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), by June 30, 2000, to develop and implement a plan for the efficient allocation of telephone numbers.Directs the FCC, until it has fully implemented such plan and at the request of a State commission, to delegate to such commission its jurisdiction over telephone numbering with respect to States to the extent that such delegation will permit the State commission to implement measures to conserve telephone numbers.	2025-01-02T17:13:08Z
106-s-2010	106	s	2010	Noncommercial Broadcasting Freedom Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-01-27	2000-01-27	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	Senate	Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]	KS	R	B000953	11	Noncommercial Broadcasting Freedom Act - Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from establishing, expanding, or otherwise modifying requirements relating to the service obligations of noncommercial educational television stations except by means of Federal agency rulemaking procedures.Terminates the additional guidance contained in the FCC's memorandum opinion and order in WQED Pittsburgh (FCC 99-393), except as such guidance is prescribed in accordance with the above rulemaking procedures.	2025-08-20T14:18:01Z
106-hr-3525	106	hr	3525	Religious Broadcasting Freedom Act	Science, Technology, Communications	2000-01-24	2000-04-13	Subcommittee Hearings Held.	House	Rep. Oxley, Michael G. [R-OH-4]	OH	R	O000163	125	Religious Broadcasting Freedom Act - Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from establishing, expanding, or otherwise modifying requirements relating to the service obligations of noncommercial educational television stations except by means of Federal agency rulemaking procedures.Terminates the additional guidance contained in the FCC's memorandum opinion and order in WQED Pittsburgh (FCC 99-393), except as such guidance is prescribed in accordance with the above rulemaking procedures.	2025-08-20T14:19:14Z
106-hr-3487	106	hr	3487	Competitive Broadband Telecommunications Rooftop Access Act	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-18	1999-12-03	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Oxley, Michael G. [R-OH-4]	OH	R	O000163	6	Competitive Broadband Telecommunications Rooftop Access Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the owner of an occupied multitenant building, within 15 days of a telecommunications carrier request, to permit such carrier reasonable, standardized, and nondiscriminatory access: (1) to install, maintain, and operate telecommunications transmission and reception antennas on top of such buildings and related receiver equipment in mechanical rooms or closets; and (2) to vertical and horizontal building risers, for the provision of telecommunications or information service to such tenants. Provides required and permissible conditions for such access. Allows such owners to charge reasonable compensation for such access. Provides civil penalties for refusal to provide such access.	2025-08-20T14:19:26Z
106-hr-3489	106	hr	3489	Wireless Telecommunications Privacy Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-18	2000-07-11	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 409.	House	Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3]	MS	R	P000323	22	Wireless Telecommunications Privacy Act of 2000 - Directs the U.S. Comptroller General to review the annual regulatory fees collected by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to determine whether such fees have been accurately assessed since their inception, and report review results to Congress.Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit modifying any electronic communication device, equipment, or system in a manner which causes it to fail to comply with regulations governing electronic eavesdropping devices. Directs the FCC to prescribe regulations (and review and revise them when necessary in response to changes in technology and behavior) denying equipment authorization for any scanning receiver capable of: (1) receiving transmissions in frequencies allocated to the domestic cellular or personal communications service; (2) being readily altered to receive such transmissions; (3) being equipped with decoders that convert domestic cellular or personal communications service or protected specialized mobile radio service transmissions to analog voice audio, or which convert protected paging service transmissions to alphanumeric text; or (4) being equipped with devices that otherwise encode encrypted radio transmissions for purposes of unauthorized interception.Directs the FCC, with respect to scanning receivers capable of receiving transmissions in frequencies used by commercial mobile services and that are shared by public safety users, to examine methods and prescribe regulations to enhance the privacy of users of such frequencies. Requires tampering prevention measures and warning labels to be considered by the FCC in prescribing such regulations.Applies penalties for the unauthorized publication or use of electronic communications to the unauthorized receipt, intentional interception, or intentional divulgence of any such communication. Directs the FCC to investigate alleged violations and proceed to initiate action to impose forfeiture penalties.	2025-04-07T13:47:21Z
106-hr-3498	106	hr	3498	Telecommunications Development Fund Improvement Act	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-18	1999-12-03	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]	NY	D	T000326	4	Telecommunications Development Fund Improvement Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require any down payment that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may require any bidder to submit before issuance of a station license or construction permit in a system of competitive bidding to be deposited in an interest-bearing account at a financial institution designated by the FCC. Requires, within 45 days following the issuance of such a license or permit: (1) the down payments of successful bidders be paid to the Treasury; and (2) the interest accrued to the account be transferred to the Telecommunications Development Fund to be used for purposes designated under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958.	2025-08-20T14:21:07Z
106-hr-3502	106	hr	3502	National Laboratories Partnership Improvement Act of 1999	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-18	1999-12-16	Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Procurement.	House	Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]	NM	D	U000039	0	National Laboratories Partnership Improvement Act of 1999 - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) establish a Regional Technology Infrastructure Program to improve the ability of the National Laboratories to support department missions; (2) authorize the Director of each National Laboratory to implement such Program pursuant to prescribed program requirements; (3) require the Director of each multiprogram National Laboratory to establish a small business advocacy function and a small business assistance program; and (4) require such Director to appoint a technology partnership ombudsman for complaint resolution.(Sec. 7) Instructs the Secretary to ensure that each contractor operating a National Laboratory has policies and procedures, including an employee benefits program, that do not create disincentives to the transfer of scientific and technical personnel among contractor-operated National Laboratories.(Sec. 8) Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to authorize the Secretary to enter into transactions with public agencies and private organizations in furtherance of functions including research, development, or demonstration projects.(Sec. 9) Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to reflect the provisions of this Act with respect to strategic plans, Federal waivers, and time required for approval.	2025-08-20T14:19:34Z
106-hr-3431	106	hr	3431	Free Television Viability Act of 1999	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-17	1999-12-03	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]	NY	D	E000179	2	Free Television Viability Act of 1999 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to modify its multiple television broadcast ownership rules by increasing to 40 (currently 35) percent the national audience reach limitation (limitation) for television stations owned by a single entity.States that the FCC, in connection with an application for the assignment or transfer of a television broadcast station (TV) license: (1) shall increase such limitation by an additional five percent if there is in effect a private or governmental program which has had the effect of increasing ownership of TV stations by members of minority groups; and (2) may further increase such limitation by an additional five percent unless the FCC determines that a direct correlation exists between lack of ownership of TV stations by minority groups and increasing such limitation.Directs the FCC to study and report to specified congressional committees on the impact of raising such limitation on the entry of small businesses and members of minority groups into TV broadcasting.Directs the FCC, in making assignments of spectrum returned to the FCC for reallocation, to give priority to applicants undertaking a commitment to broadcast in a language other than English or which represents traditionally underserved communities.	2025-08-20T14:20:34Z
106-hr-3439	106	hr	3439	Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-17	2000-05-16	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.	House	Rep. Oxley, Michael G. [R-OH-4]	OH	R	O000163	165	Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to modify its rules authorizing the operation of low-power FM radio stations to: (1) prescribe minimum distance separations for third-adjacent channels (as well as co-channels and first- and second-adjacent channels); and (2) prohibit any applicant from obtaining a low-power FM license if such applicant has engaged in the unlicensed operation of any radio station in violation of FCC radio licensing requirements.Prohibits the FCC, without specific authorization by Congress, from: (1) eliminating or reducing such minimum distance separations for third-adjacent channels; or (2) extending the eligibility for low-power FM stations beyond those organizations and entities proposed in MM Docket No. 99-25.Invalidates any previously issued low-power FM station license that does not comply with such rule modifications.Directs the FCC to conduct an experimental program to test whether low- power FM stations will result in harmful interference to existing FM radio stations if such stations are not subject to the minimum distance separation requirements. Requires the FCC to: (1) publish test results and allow an opportunity for public comment; and (2) report test results and FCC recommendations on reducing or eliminating minimum distance standards to specified congressional committees.	2025-04-07T13:47:21Z
106-s-1948	106	s	1948	Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of 1999	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-17	1999-11-19	See also H.R. 3194.	Senate	Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]	MS	R	L000447	0	Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of 1999 - Title I: Satellite Home Viewer Improvement - Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999 - Amends Federal copyright law to cite circumstances under which the secondary transmission by a satellite carrier (carrier) of a primary transmission of a television broadcast station (TV station) into the station's local market shall be subject to statutory (compulsory) licensing. Requires the carrier: (1) within 90 days after commencing such secondary transmission, to submit to the network that owns or is affiliated with the network station a list identifying all subscribers to which the carrier currently makes such transmission; and (2) on the 15th day of each month, to submit a subsequent list identifying any subscribers who have been added or dropped. Restricts the use of subscriber information to monitoring compliance by the carrier. Applies the submission requirements to a carrier only if the network to which the submissions are to be made places on file with the Register of Copyrights a document identifying the name and address of the person to whom such submissions are to be made.(Sec. 1002) Precludes any royalty obligation for such secondary transmission. Makes actionable as an infringement and fully subject to copyright remedies a carrier's willful or repeated transmission into a TV station's local market of the station's primary transmission embodying a performance or display, if the carrier has not complied with specified reporting requirements.Applies such infringement and copyright remedies to a carrier if: (1) the content of a particular program in which the performance or display is embodied or any commercial advertising or station announcement transmitted by the primary transmitter during, or immediately before or after, the transmission of such program is in any way willfully altered by the carrier or is combined with programming from any other broadcast signal; or (2) such transmission is made to a subscriber outside the TV station's …	2025-08-20T14:21:06Z
106-s-1923	106	s	1923	Third-Generation Wireless Internet Act	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-16	1999-11-16	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.	Senate	Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]	KS	R	B000953	0	Third-Generation Wireless Internet Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from applying commercial mobile radio service (wireless) spectrum aggregation limits to spectrum assigned by initial auction held after December 31, 1999.Authorizes the FCC to relax or eliminate, but not to lower, such limits.	2025-08-20T14:21:04Z
106-s-1912	106	s	1912	Electronic Commerce Technology Promotion Act	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-10	2000-07-19	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 691.	Senate	Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]	TN	R	F000439	2	Electronic Commerce Technology Promotion Act - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish within such Institute the Center of Excellence for Electronic Commerce to: (1) act as the centralized resource of information for Federal agencies in electronic commerce technologies and issues; (2) provide guidance to the Office of Management and Budget in developing policies pertaining to electronic commerce; (3) promote the use of electronic commerce technologies within Federal agencies and small and medium-sized businesses; and (4) ensure that U.S. interests are appropriately represented at both domestic and international meetings pertaining to the setting of interoperability specifications for electronic commerce technologies.Requires a report from: (1) the Undersecretary of Technology on issues concerning electronic commerce; and (2) the Director detailing the plan, proposed schedule, and associated costs and benefits for the deployment of electronic commerce technologies in Federal agencies.	2025-08-20T14:20:02Z
106-hr-3261	106	hr	3261	Communications Satellite Competition and Privatization Act of 1999	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-09	1999-11-10	Laid on the table. See S. 376 for further action. (consideration: CR H11939)	House	Rep. Bliley, Tom [R-VA-7]	VA	R	B000556	21	Communications Satellite Competition and Privatization Act of 1999 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to add a new chapter concerning communications satellite competition and privatization.Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from issuing a license or construction permit to any separated entity (an entity that has been privatized under this Act), renewing or assigning any such license or permit, or authorizing such entity to use its space segment unless the FCC determines that such issuance, renewal, assignment, or use will not harm competition in the U.S. telecommunications market. Requires the FCC to substantially limit, deny, or revoke the authority of any U.S. entity to use any space segment owned, leased, or operated by INTELSAT (the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization) or Inmarsat (the International Maritime Satellite Organization) or any successor entities to provide non-core satellite services to, from, or within the United States, unless the FCC finds that INTELSAT and Inmarsat and their successor entities, by specified dates, have been privatized in a manner that will not harm competition in the U.S. telecommunications markets. Outlines competition requirements, including that users of non-core services currently provided by such entities are able to obtain such services from other providers at competitive rates, terms, and conditions.States that, unless the FCC determines appropriate privatization by INTELSAT or Inmarsat, then: (1) the President shall oppose any registration for new orbital locations for such entities after specified dates; and (2) the President and the FCC shall preclude procurement, registration, development, or use of new satellites which would provide non-core services (with an exception for replacement or currently-contracted satellites).Authorizes the FCC to issue an authorization, license, or permit for any provider of services using any INTELSAT or Inmarsat space segment for additional services or additional areas of business during the…	2025-08-20T14:20:19Z
106-hr-3252	106	hr	3252	Internet Tax Elimination Act	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-08	2000-03-10	Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.	House	Rep. Kasich, John R. [R-OH-12]	OH	R	K000016	10	Internet Tax Elimination Act - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the prohibition on State and local taxation of Internet access and electronic commerce. Includes within such prohibition sales or use tax on electronic commerce-purchased domestic or foreign goods.Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should seek a global consensus supporting a permanent ban on electronic commerce tariffs.	2025-08-20T14:20:09Z
106-s-1876	106	s	1876	Science and Educational Networking Act	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-05	1999-11-05	Read twice and referred to the Committee on HELP.	Senate	Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]	CT	D	D000388	1	Science and Educational Networking Act - Amends the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 to require the Director of the National Science Foundation to submit to Congress a report that: (1) identifies the current status of high-speed, large bandwidth capacity access to all public elementary and secondary schools and libraries in the United States; (2) identifies how high-speed large bandwidth capacity access to the Internet to such schools and libraries can be effectively utilized within each school and library; (3) considers the effect that specific or regional circumstances may have on the ability of such institutions to acquire high-speed, large bandwidth capacity to achieve universal connectivity as an effective tool in the education process; and (4) includes options and recommendations for the various entities responsible for elementary and secondary education to address the challenges and issues identified.	2025-08-20T14:16:55Z
106-hr-3220	106	hr	3220	Millennium Digital Commerce Act	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-04	1999-11-17	Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology.	House	Rep. Gephardt, Richard A. [D-MO-3]	MO	D	G000132	7	Millennium Digital Commerce Act - Declares that an interstate contract transaction shall not be denied legal effect solely because an electronic signature or electronic record was used in its formation.Authorizes parties to an interstate transaction to determine the appropriate electronic signature technologies for their transaction, and the means of implementing such technologies. Denies the legal effect of an electronic record of a contract required by law to be in writing, unless it is delivered to all parties in a form that can be: (1) retained for later reference; and (2) used to prove agreement terms. Provides exclusions. Prohibits a contract relating to a commercial transaction from being denied legal effect solely because its formation involved electronic agents (computers or other automated means). States as the specific intent of Congress that this section apply to the business of insurance.Directs the Federal Government, to the extent practicable, to observe certain principles governing the use of electronic signatures in international commercial transactions, including to: (1) remove paper-based obstacles to electronic transactions by adopting relevant principles from the Model Law on Electronic Commerce adopted in 1996 by the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL); (2) permit parties to a transaction to determine the appropriate authentication technologies for such transactions, with assurance that they will be recognized and enforced; (3) permit such parties to have the opportunity to prove in court that such authentication approaches and transactions are valid; and (4) take a nondiscriminatory approach to electronic signatures and authentication methods from other jurisdictions.Directs each Federal agency to report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Secretary of Commerce on any provision of law administered, or regulation issued, by it that imposes a barrier to electronic transactions. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress concerning any legislation n…	2026-03-23T12:17:56Z
106-s-1850	106	s	1850	Telephone Call Privacy Act of 1999	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-03	1999-11-03	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.	Senate	Sen. Edwards, John [D-NC]	NC	D	E000286	1	Telephone Call Privacy Act of 1999 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow a telecommunications carrier to use, disclose, or permit access to customer proprietary (identifying) telephone network information for the provision, by the carrier or another party, of its product or services only if the carrier: (1) provides the customer a notice of the information being disclosed and the specific product or service for which the information is being disclosed; (2) permits the customer to review and correct such proprietary information; and (3) does not receive from such customer within 15 days after notification a notice disapproving the use of such information for such purposes. Allows a customer to provide written disapproval of such use notwithstanding a previous approval.Outlines provisions authorizing a person that receives or obtains customer proprietary information to disclose such information to criminal law enforcement and judicial personnel for criminal law enforcement and related judicial proceedings. Provides requirements for court orders for investigative or law enforcement officers to obtain such information, including that: (1) the information sought is relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation; and (2) the law enforcement need for such information outweighs the privacy interest of the individual involved.	2025-08-20T14:17:11Z
106-hr-3203	106	hr	3203	Broadcast Ownership for the 21st Century Act	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-02	1999-11-12	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]	FL	R	S000822	6	Broadcast Ownership for the 21st Century Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the FCC to modify current cross-ownership limitations by eliminating provisions limiting the granting or renewal of an AM, FM, or TV broadcast station license to any party on the basis of the ownership, operation, or control of a daily newspaper. Disallows the FCC to prohibit or limit a person or entity from holding any form of ownership or other interest in a broadcast station and a cable system serving the same community. Directs the FCC to permit a TV broadcast station to affiliate with a person or entity that maintains two or more networks of TV broadcast stations, with a limited exception.Provides that, in calculating the national audience reach limitations, UHF stations shall be attributed with no more than 50 percent of the TV households in their market.Amends the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to direct the FCC to modify its rules for multiple ownership of TV broadcast stations to increase to 45 (currently 35) percent the national audience reach limitations for TV stations owned by the same entity or person.Revises provisions prohibiting the granting of radio station licenses to aliens or foreign entities to allow the granting of such a license to the same manner and extent to which such alien's or entity's country allows the granting of such a license to a U.S. person or entity.	2025-08-20T14:18:05Z
106-hr-3186	106	hr	3186	Telecommunications Merger Review Act of 1999	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-11-01	1999-11-12	Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.	House	Rep. Burr, Richard [R-NC-5]	NC	R	B001135	1	Telecommunications Merger Review Act of 1999 - Amends the Clayton Act to repeal the authority of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve telecommunications industry mergers.Amends the Communications Act of 1934 (the Act) to mandate that the FCC has no authority to review a merger or other transaction (merger), or to impose any term or condition on the assignment or transfer of any license or other authorization (license) issued under the Act that is proposed to be assigned or transferred in the course of a merger, while that merger is subject to review by either the Department of Justice (DOJ) or the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Empowers DOJ and FTC with primary authority to review mergers involving the proposed assignment or transfer of any license issued under the Act. Authorizes the FCC to file comments in any such proceeding.States that, if DOJ or FTC reviews a merger and issues either a written decision of approval or a written statement of nonintervention in such merger, then the FCC shall authorize the assignment or transfer of any license involved therein. Prohibits the FCC from imposing any other term or condition on the assignment or transfer of such license, or imposing any other obligation on any party to such merger.Prohibits the FCC from reviewing any application for assignment or transfer of a license issued under the Act in connection with a merger unless neither DOJ nor the FTC issues a decision or statement in connection with such merger. Requires the FCC to conclude any review so conducted within 60 days after DOJ or FTC issues such a decision or statement.	2025-08-20T14:18:27Z
106-hr-3161	106	hr	3161	Federal Research Investment Act	Science, Technology, Communications	1999-10-28	1999-11-11	Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Research and Development.	House	Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1]	NM	R	W000789	32	Federal Research Investment Act - Calls for Federal research and development programs to be conducted in accordance with specified guiding principles with respect to good science, fiscal accountability, program effectiveness, and criteria for government funding.Authorizes aggregate funding levels for civilian research and development (R&D) in specified agencies for FY 2000 through 2010. Sets forth requirements for adjusting amounts received by agencies for which appropriations increase by more than eight percent in a covered fiscal year.Directs the President to include with the annual budget request a report providing: (1) a summary of the total level of Federal funding for R&D throughout all civilian agencies; (2) a strategy reflecting funding projections of this Act; (3) an analysis of funding levels across Federal agencies by funding methodology; and (4) specific proposals for infrastructure development and R&D capacity building in States with less concentrated R&D resources.Requires the Director of the Office of Science Technology Policy to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a comprehensive study to develop methods for evaluating federally-funded R&D programs. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), based on study results, to promulgate one or more alternative forms for Federal R&D performance goals. Permits an agency head to apply such an alternative form without further authorization by OMB. Requires agency heads carrying out R&D activities, upon updating a strategic plan, to describe the current and future use of methods for determining an acceptable level of R&D success as recommended by the study. Authorizes appropriations for the study.Requires the OMB Director, based upon program performance reports, to identify the civilian R&D program activities or components which do not meet an acceptable level of success as defined under current law. Directs the head of an agency, for each program activity or component identified as being below the …	2025-08-20T14:19:22Z

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