Bills About Science, Technology, Communications Sponsored by Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)

Sen. Blackburn sponsored 17 bills about science, technology, communications in the 116th Congress (2019-20).

Introduced Number Title Cosponsors Cosponsor Party Latest Action
April 11, 2019 S.1166 A bill to direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to make grants for the establishment or expansion of internet exchange facilities, and for other purposes. 3
Bipartisan
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 629.
Oct. 17, 2019 S.2645 A bill to prove that the Federal Communications Commission and communications service providers regulated by the Commission under the Communications Act of 1934 shall not be subject to certain provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the National Historic Preservation Act with respect to the construction, rebuilding, or hardening of communications facilities following a major disaster or an emergency declared by the President, and for other purposes. 3
All Republicans
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
May 14, 2019 S.1457 A bill to provide for interagency coordination on risk mitigation in the communications equipment and services marketplace and the supply chain thereof, and for other purposes. 2
All Republicans
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Feb. 8, 2018 H.R.4986 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to reauthorize appropriations for the Federal Communications Commission, to provide for certain procedural changes to the rules of the Commission to maximize opportunities for public participation and efficient decisionmaking, and for other purposes. 1
All Republicans
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Dec. 19, 2017 H.R.4682 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure internet openness, to prohibit blocking of lawful content, applications, services, and non-harmful devices, to prohibit impairment or degradation of lawful internet traffic, to limit the authority of the Federal Communications Commission and to preempt State law with respect to internet openness obligations, to provide that broadband internet access service shall be considered to be an information service, and for other purposes. 41
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
March 8, 2017 H.J.RES.86 Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to "Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services". 16
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Jan. 17, 2017 H.R.583 To direct the Federal Communications Commission to revoke certain changes to the ownership reporting requirements for noncommercial educational broadcast stations. 0 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
April 23, 2015 H.R.1999 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to deny the right to grant retransmission consent to a television broadcast station if an AM or FM radio broadcast station licensed to the same licensee transmits a sound recording without providing compensation for programming and to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from imposing radio tuner mandates for mobile devices. 1
All Democrats
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
March 3, 2015 H.R.1212 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. 54
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Feb. 26, 2015 H.R.1106 To amend section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to provide that such section does not authorize the Federal Communications Commission to preempt the laws of certain States relating to the regulation of municipal broadband, and for other purposes. 11
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
May 7, 2014 H.R.4588 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to deny the right to grant retransmission consent to a television broadcast station if an AM or FM radio broadcast station licensed to the same licensee transmits a sound recording without providing compensation for programming. 1
All Democrats
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Feb. 21, 2014 H.R.4070 To prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from regulating certain network management practices of broadband Internet access service providers. 37
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
April 10, 2013 H.R.1468 To improve information security, and for other purposes. 0 Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
Jan. 5, 2011 H.R.96 To prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from further regulating the Internet. 81
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Oct. 26, 2009 H.R.3924 To prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from further regulating the Internet. 51
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.
Dec. 6, 2007 H.R.4307 To amend the Communications Act of 1934, and increase consumer freedom of choice in the video marketplace. 7
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
June 30, 2005 H.R.3146 To promote deployment of competitive video services and eliminate redundant and unnecessary regulation. 40
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
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