Family and Consumer Choice Act of 2007
Have a question about what this bill does? Ask in plain English; the answer is drawn from the bill's actual text and official record, and it'll tell you when something isn't in the text rather than guess.
Family and Consumer Choice Act of 2007 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt rules to protect children from indecent video programming carried by a multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD). Gives MVPDs the option to either: (1) in accordance with FCC indecency and profanity policies and standards, not transmit indecent or profane material in the expanded basic tier between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. in the Eastern or Pacific time zones or between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. in the Central or Mountain times zones; (2) scramble or block any channel that a subscriber does not wish to receive; or (3) allow a subscriber to subscribe to a family tier of programming (defined as including all channels on the expanded basic tier, except those that carry programs rated TV-14 or TV-MA during those hours). Requires MVPDs that elect to scramble or block channels to issue credit in certain circumstances to a subscriber for any channel the subscriber elects to block. Requires MVPDs that elect to provide a family tier to allow a subscriber to obtain the family tier of programming for one or more of the subscriber's reception devices while simultaneously obtaining other tiers for other of the subscriber's reception devices.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2738: Family and Consumer Choice Act of 2007. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-2738/
"H.R. 2738: Family and Consumer Choice Act of 2007." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-2738/.
H.R. 2738, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-2738/.
[H.R. 2738: Family and Consumer Choice Act of 2007](https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-2738/)