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S. 4557 119th Congress Senate

Outage Refund Protection Act

Official title: A bill to require telephone providers, cable television providers, direct broadcast satellite service providers, and internet providers to automatically refund… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to require telephone providers, cable television providers, direct broadcast satellite service providers, and internet providers to automatically refund their customers when their services are not working, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 18, 2026 Introduced by: Ben Ray Luján Democratic · New Mexico See on congress.gov
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May 18, 2026
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
May 18, 2026
Introduced in Senate
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4557: Outage Refund Protection Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4557/
MLA
"S. 4557: Outage Refund Protection Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4557/.
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S. 4557, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4557/.
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[S. 4557: Outage Refund Protection Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4557/)
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