S 1981
113th Congress
Senate
Science, Technology, Communications
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Open Internet Preservation Act of 2014
Introduced: February 3, 2014
Introduced by:
Markey, Edward J.
Democratic
· Massachusetts
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2 steps
Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 3, 2014
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Feb 3, 2014
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Open Internet Preservation Act of 2014 - Restores rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the Report and Order in the matter of preserving the open Internet and broadband industry practices (adopted on December 21, 2010) that were vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Verizon v. Federal Communications Commission (decided on January 14, 2014).
Requires such rules to remain in effect until the FCC takes final action in the proceedings remanded to the FCC in such D.C. Circuit decision.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Committees of jurisdiction
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