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114TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION

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

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Mr. LEE

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introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to
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A BILL
To prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from
reclassifying broadband Internet access service as a telecommunications service and from imposing certain regulations on providers of such service.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-

2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Restoring Internet

5 Freedom Act’’.
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SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY OF FCC.

(a) IN GENERAL.—The rule adopted by the Federal

8 Communications Commission in GN Docket No. 14–28 on

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1 February 26, 2015 (relating to broadband Internet access
2 service) shall have no force or effect, and the Commission
3 may not reissue such rule in substantially the same form,
4 or issue a new rule that is substantially the same as such
5 rule, unless the reissued or new rule is specifically author6 ized by a law enacted after the date of enactment of this
7 Act.
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(b) RULE DEFINED.—In this section, the term

9 ‘‘rule’’ has the meaning given the term in section 804 of
10 title 5, United States Code.