Bill #	Name (Sponsor)	Summary	Status
HR 2637	Consumer and Community Choice in Access Act (Blumenauer/Defazio)	Requires cable companies that provide Internet access to allow unaffiliated ISPs open access to the cable plant to provide competing Internet service; empowers the FCC to set financial and technical terms for such access if the cable companies fail to do so.	Introduced 7/29/99, referred to Commerce Committee. Referred to Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee. 8/27/99
HR 1685	Internet Growth and Development Act (Boucher/Goodlatte)	Releases local phone companies from interLATA restrictions on the transport of Internet traffic, but imposes certain obligations to provide broadband service where possible; declares that certain local phone companies that fail to provide competitors with reasonable access to broadband-compatible local loops would be in violation of the Sherman Act; declares that "broadband access transport providers" must offer unaffiliated ISPs the same terms that are offered to affiliated ISPs, and must not otherwise favor the affiliated ISPs.	Introduced 5/5/99, and referred to Judiciary and Commerce Committees. Referred to subcommitte on Telcom, Trade and Consumer Protection 5/25/99. Judiciary Committee legislative hearing held 6/30/99 and 7/18/00.
HR 1686	Internet Freedom Act (Goodlatte/Boucher)	Declares that certain local phone companies that fail to provide competitors with reasonable access to broadband-compatible local loops would be in violation of the Sherman Act; declares that "broadband access transport providers" must offer unaffiliated ISPs the same terms that are offered to affiliated ISPs, and must not otherwise favor the affiliated ISPs.	Introduced 5/5/99, and referred to Judiciary and Commerce Committees. Referred to subcommitte on Telcom, Trade and Consumer Protection 5/25/99. Judiciary Committee legislative hearing held 6/30/99 and 7/18/00.
HR 2420	Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act of 1999 (Tauzin)	Provides regulatory relief for phone companies providing "high speed data services"; deprives the FCC and state and local authorities of regulatory authority over high speed data service or Internet access services; exempts high speed data services and Internet access services from interLATA restrictions.	Introduced 7/1/99, and referred to Commerce Committee. Referred to Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection 7/21/99.
S 877	Broadband Internet Regulatory Relief Act of 1999 (Brownback)	Mandates that local phone companies shall not be subject to Federal requirements concerning: (1) facilities and equipment used exclusively to provide advanced communications service; and (2) the provision of such service in any State in which 70 percent of the carrier's loops are DSL-capable. Provides that the duty not to impose discriminatory conditions on the resale of telecommunications services shall not apply to local phone companies with respect to its provision of advanced service.	Read twice on 4/26/99 and referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
S 1043	Internet Regulatory Freedom Act of 1999 (McCain)	States that U.S. policy is to assure that all Americans have access to advanced Internet services at affordable rates by eliminating regulation that impedes the competitive deployment of advanced broadband data networks. States that nothing in this Act grants authority to the FCC with respect to: (1) the provision of Internet services, (2) technical standards or specifications for the provision of Internet services, or (3) the imposition of wholesale discount obligations on bulk offerings of advanced services	Read twice on 5/13/99 and referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

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