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HR 1084 EHRFS
111th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1084
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
December 16, 2009
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
AN ACT
To require the Federal Communications Commission to prescribe a standard to preclude commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than the program material they accompany.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
SEC. 2. RULEMAKING ON LOUD COMMERCIALS REQUIRED.
(a) Regulation Required- Within 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall prescribe pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) a regulation that is limited to incorporating by reference and making mandatory (subject to any waivers the Commission may grant pursuant to subsection (b)(2)) the ‘Recommended Practice: Techniques for Establishing and Maintaining Audio Loudness for Digital Television’ (A/85), and any successor thereto, approved by the Advanced Television Systems Committee, only insofar as such recommended practice concerns the transmission of commercial advertisements by a television broadcast station, cable operator, or other multichannel video programming distributor.
(b) Implementation-
(1) EFFECTIVE DATE- The Federal Communications Commission shall prescribe that the regulation adopted pursuant to subsection (a) shall become effective 1 year after the date of its adoption.
(2) WAIVER- For any television broadcast station, cable operator, or other multichannel video programming distributor that demonstrates that obtaining the equipment to comply with the regulation adopted pursuant to subsection (a) would result in financial hardship, the Federal Communications Commission may grant a waiver of the effective date set forth in paragraph (1) for 1 year and may renew such waiver for 1 additional year.
(c) Definitions- For purposes of this section--
(1) the term ‘television broadcast station’ has the meaning given such term in section 325 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 325); and
(2) the terms ‘cable operator’ and ‘multichannel video programming distributor’ have the meanings given such terms in section 602 of Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 522).
Passed the House of Representatives December 15, 2009.
Attest:
Clerk.111th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 1084AN ACTTo require the Federal Communications Commission to prescribe a standard to preclude commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than the program material they accompany
LORRAINE C. MILLER,
Clerk.
U.S. Congress - Text of H.R.1084 as Referred in Senate Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act
