Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 17:46:15 -0700
Reply-To: Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Mike Miller <mwm@LANSET.COM>
Subject: Re: Fw: HILL VOTES ON IP REGULATION TUESDAY: SOS
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
OK, I used to make my living by analyzing this kind of crap. Now, tell me,
does this allow charges or not?
Or for an easier question, please explain the meaning of life.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: HILL VOTES ON IP REGULATION TUESDAY: SOS
> At 19:28 5/13/2000, Adam Puzerewski wrote:
> >This is all phony. It is the stuff of Urban Legend.
>
> Fraid you jumped too quick on this one, Adam -- here's the text of the
Bill
> as reported out of committee yesterday...
>
> >May 12, 2000
> >Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House
> >on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
> >[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in
> >italic]
> >
> >A BILL
> >To prohibit the imposition of access charges on Internet service
> >providers, and for other purposes.
> >Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
> >States of America in Congress assembled,
> >[Struck out->] SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. [<-Struck out]
> >[Struck out->] This Act may be cited as the `Internet Access Charge
> >Prohibition Act of 1999'. [<-Struck out]
> >[Struck out->] SEC. 2. PURPOSE. [<-Struck out]
> >[Struck out->] It is the purpose of this Act to ensure that Internet
> >information services will continue to be deployed as rapidly and
> >efficiently to as many Americans as possible by preventing the Federal
> >Communications Commission from applying interstate access charges to
> >providers of Internet services. [<-Struck out]
> >[Struck out->] SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF ACCESS CHARGES ON INTERNET SERVICE
> >PROVIDERS. [<-Struck out]
> >[Struck out->] Section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C.
> >254) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
> >[<-Struck out]
> >[Struck out->] `(l) PROHIBITION OF ACCESS CHARGES ON INTERNET SERVICE
> >PROVIDERS- Notwithstanding subsection (b)(4) or (d) or any other
provision
> >of this section, the Commission shall not impose on any interactive
> >computer service (as such term is defined in section 230(e)) or other
> >information service provider any access charge for the support of
> >universal service that is based on a measure of the time that
> >telecommunications services are used in the provision of such interactive
> >computer service or information service.'. [<-Struck out]
> >SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
> >This Act may be cited as the `Internet Access Charge Prohibition Act of
2000'.
> >SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF CHARGES ON PROVIDERS OF INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE.
> >Section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254) is amended
> >by adding at the end the following new subsection:
> >`(l) PROHIBITION OF CHARGES ON INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS-
> >`(1) IN GENERAL- Notwithstanding subsection (b)(4) or (d) or any other
> >provision of this title, the Commission shall not impose on any provider
> >of Internet access service (as such term is defined in section 231(e))
any
> >contribution for the support of universal service that is based on a
> >measure of the time that telecommunications services are used in the
> >provision of such Internet access service.
> >`(2) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION- Nothing in this subsection shall preclude the
> >Commission from imposing access charges on the providers of Internet
> >telephone services, irrespective of the type of customer premises
> >equipment used in connection with such services.'.
> >Union Calendar No. 335
> >106th CONGRESS
> >2d Session
> >H. R. 1291
> >[Report No. 106-615]
> >A BILL
> >To prohibit the imposition of access charges on Internet service
> >providers, and for other purposes.
> >
> >May 12, 2000
> >Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House
> >on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
>
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
> http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"
| 
