The Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act ( ) is a bill that would amend the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.
Rafael Edward Cruz ( ; born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and attorney who has served as the junior United States Senator from Texas since 2013.
 He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
Dan Meredith, also known as Dan Blah, is a Internet freedom supporter, journalist, technologist, and media activist.
 He is currently the founding Director of the Open Technology Fund, a U.S. Government funded program created in 2012 at Radio Free Asia to support global Internet freedom, privacy-enhancing technologies, and Internet censorship circumvention technologies.
 Meredith joined Al Jazeera's Transparency Unit in 2011, led by Clayton Swisher, where he increased communication security between investigative field journalists and their sources.
 He was an early part of the Open Technology Institute in 2009, led by Sascha Meinrath.
 While at OTI, Meredith was involved with: The "Internet in a Suitcase" project, a U.S. Department of State funded effort to create "ad hoc" mesh wireless technologies; collaborated with Philadelphia community organizers to secure $11.8 million USD from the federal Broadband Technology Opportunities Program; and, worked on Network Neutrality court cases Hart v. Comcast and Comcast Corp. v. FCC with Robb Topolski, who discovered Comcast blocking Bittorrent traffic in 2007.
 Meredith was a co-founder and Senior Network Engineer of the CUWiN Foundation, a non-profit launched in 2000 that aimed to develop "decentralized, community-owned networks that foster democratic cultures and local content".
 He was an active Indymedia volunteer throughout the mid 2000s at the Champaign-Urbana Independent Media Center (UCIMC) and it's low power FM radio station, Radio Free Urbana WRFU-LP.
 Meredith joined the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative as an inaugural appointee to its Advisory Board in 2014.
The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act is a United States law authored by Representative Christopher Cox and Senator Ron Wyden, and signed into law as title XI of Pub.L.
 105–277 on October 21, 1998 by President Bill Clinton in an effort to promote and preserve the commercial, educational, and informational potential of the Internet.
 The law bars federal, state and local governments from taxing Internet access and from imposing discriminatory Internet-only taxes such as bit taxes, bandwidth taxes, and email taxes.
 It also bars multiple taxes on electronic commerce.
Michael Moynihan is an American author and the nephew of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Senator (Democrat) from New York.
 He wrote "The Coming American Renaissance", a rebuttal of works by Lester Thurow and others, argued that America possessed a unique set of economic advantages that would propel it to global leadership in the 21st century.
 Moynihan cited technology leadership, in particular, as a driver of economic growth.
 He worked in the Clinton administration as an advisor to Secretaries of the Treasury, Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin from 1996 to 1999.
 Moynihan was in charge of Internet and electronic commerce policy and was involved with the effort to pass the Internet Tax Freedom Act.
 Moynihan founded the Internet website AlwaysonTV.
The NetFreedom Task Force (previously called the Global Internet Freedom Task Force, abbr.
 GIFT) is an initiative within the U.S. Department of State that acts as the State Department's policy-coordinating and outreach body for Internet freedom.
 The members address Internet freedom issues by drawing on the Department's multidisciplinary expertise in international communications policy, human rights, democratization, business advocacy, corporate social responsibility, and relevant countries and regions.
 It reports to the Secretary through Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs and Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs.
 The task force coordinates the State Department’s work with other agencies, U.S. Internet companies, non-governmental organizations, academic researchers, and other stakeholders.
The Protecting Internet Freedom Act was introduced in June 2016 by United States Senator Ted Cruz in order to "prohibit the National Telecommunications and Information Administration from allowing the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions contract to lapse unless specifically authorized to do so by an Act of Congress."
Sascha Meinrath is an Internet freedom activist.
 He is the founder of X-Lab, a future-focused technology policy and innovation project, and promotes the "Internet in a Suitcase" effort to create "ad hoc" mesh wireless technologies.
 Sascha founded the Open Technology Institute in 2008 and directed the Institute while also serving as Vice President of the New America Foundation.
 He is also the co-founder and executive director of the CUWiN Foundation, a non-profit launched in 2000 that aims to develop "decentralized, community-owned networks that foster democratic cultures and local content," and in 2007 founded the Open Source Wireless Coalition, "a global partnership of open source wireless integrators, researchers, implementors and companies dedicated to the development of open source, interoperable, low-cost wireless network technologies."
 In 2012 he was elected as an Global Fellow for leading support for Internet freedom in the United States and around the globe, as well as named to Newsweek's Digital Power Index Top 100 influencers among other “public servants defining digital regulatory boundaries” for his efforts to develop open-source, low-cost community wireless networks and his role in fighting Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA).
 In 2013 Time named Meinrath to the TIME Tech 40: The Most Influential Minds in Tech for his work to protect Internet freedom.
Victims of Iranian Censorship Act, more popularly called as the VOICE Act, is the Subtitle D of Title XII of Public Law 111-84, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, USA., legitimately passed and signed on October 28, 2009.
 On January 21, 2010, according to the spirit of this Act, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a public speech “On Internet Freedom,” exploring positive aspects of internet freedom and emphasizing that,
The Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act ( , Pub.L.
 114–281 ) "amends the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA) to state in the congressional findings that the freedom of thought and religion is understood to protect theistic and non-theistic beliefs as well as the right not to profess or practice any religion".
 The bill was named after Frank Wolf, a Republican Congressman for Virginia and staunch supporter of religious freedom, who introduced the original IRFA.
 While both religious and non-religious groups have signaled approval for the amendment, it has received particular attention for specifically protecting non-theists and those who claim no religion at all.

Question: The Protecting Internet Freedom Act was introduced by a senator from which state ?
Answer: Texas