HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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1995 T109.7

(b) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this

section—

(1) DIRECT-TO-HOME SATELLITE SERVICE.—

The term ‘‘direct-to-home satellite service’’

means the transmission or broadcasting by

satellite of programming directly to the subscribers’ premises without the use of ground

receiving or distribution equipment, except

at the subscribers’ premises or in the uplink

process to the satellite.

(2) PROVIDER OF DIRECT-TO-HOME SATELLITE

SERVICE.—For purposes of this section, a

‘‘provider of direct-to-home satellite service’’ means a person who transmits, broadcasts, sells, or distributes direct-to-home

satellite service.

(3) LOCAL TAXING JURISDICTION.—The term

‘‘local taxing jurisdiction’’ means any municipality, city, county, township, parish,

transportation district, or assessment jurisdiction, or any other local jurisdiction in the

territorial jurisdiction of the United States

with the authority to impose a tax or fee,

but does not include a State.

(4) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means any of

the several States, the District of Columbia,

or any territory or possession of the United

States.

(5) TAX OR FEE.—The terms ‘‘tax’’ and

‘‘fee’’ mean any local sales tax, local use tax,

local intangible tax, local income tax, business license tax, utility tax, privilege tax,

gross receipts tax, excise tax, franchise fees,

local telecommunications tax, or any other

tax, license, or fee that is imposed for the

privilege of doing business, regulating, or

raising revenue for a local taxing jurisdiction.

(c) PRESERVATION OF STATE AUTHORITY.—

This section shall not be construed to prevent taxation of a provider of direct-to-home

satellite service by a State or to prevent a

local taxing jurisdiction from receiving revenue derived from a tax or fee imposed and

collected by a State.

[41. Protection of Minors]

Page 167, after line 20, insert the following

new section (and conform the table of contents accordingly):

SEC. 403. PROTECTION OF MINORS AND CLARIFICATION OF CURRENT LAWS REGARDING COMMUNICATION OF OBSCENE AND INDECENT MATERIALS

THROUGH THE USE OF COMPUTERS.

(a) PROTECTION OF MINORS.—

(1) GENERALLY.—Section 1465 of title 18,

United States Code, is amended by adding at

the end the following:

‘‘Whoever intentionally communicates by

computer, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, to any person the communicator believes has not attained the age of 18

years, any material that, in context, depicts

or describes, in terms patently offensive as

measured by contemporary community

standards, sexual or excretory activities or

organs, or attempts to do so, shall be fined

under this title or imprisoned not more than

five years, or both.’’.

(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO

FORFEITURE.—

(A) Section 1467(a)(1) of title 18, United

States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘communicated,’’ after ‘‘transported,’’.

(B) Section 1467 of title 18, United States

Code, is amended in subsection (a)(1), by

striking ‘‘obscene’’.

(C) Section 1469 of title 18, United States

Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘communicated,’’ after ‘‘transported,’’ each place it

appears.

(b) CLARIFICATION OF CURRENT LAWS REGARDING COMMUNICATION OF OBSCENE MATERIALS THROUGH THE USE OF COMPUTERS.—

(1) IMPORTATION OR TRANSPORTATION.—Section 1462 of title 18, United States Code, is

amended—

(A) in the first undesignated paragraph, by

inserting ‘‘(including by computer) after

‘‘thereof’’; and

(B) in the second undesignated paragraph—

(i) by inserting ‘‘or receives,’’ after

‘‘takes’’;

(ii) by inserting ‘‘, or by computer,’’ after

‘‘common carrier’’; and

(iii) by inserting ‘‘or importation’’ after

‘‘carriage’’.

(2) TRANSPORTATION FOR PURPOSES OF SALE

OR DISTRIBUTION.—The first undesignated

paragraph of section 1465 of title 18, United

States Code, is amended—

(A) by striking ‘‘transports in’’ and inserting ‘‘transports or travels in, or uses a facility or means of,’’;

(B) by inserting ‘‘(including a computer in

or affecting such commerce)’’ after ‘‘foreign

commerce’’ the first place it appears; and

(C) by striking ‘‘, or knowingly travels in’’

and all that follows through ‘‘obscene material in interstate or foreign commerce,’’ and

inserting ‘‘of’’.

[42. Cable Access]

Page 170, line 21, after the period insert the

following: ‘‘For purposes of section 242, such

term shall not include the provision of video

programming directly to subscribers.’’.

It was decided in the Yeas ....... 256 ! affirmative ................... Nays ...... 149

T109.6 [Roll No. 627]

AYES—256

Ackerman

Archer

Armey

Bachus

Baker (LA)

Ballenger

Barcia

Barr

Barrett (NE)

Barrett (WI)

Bartlett

Barton

Bentsen

Berman

Bevill

Bilbray

Bilirakis

Bishop

Bliley

Blute

Boehner

Bonilla

Bonior

Bono

Boucher

Brewster

Browder

Brown (CA)

Brown (FL)

Burr

Burton

Buyer

Callahan

Camp

Cardin

Castle

Chabot

Chambliss

Chenoweth

Christensen

Chrysler

Clay

Clayton

Clinger

Clyburn

Coburn

Coleman

Combest

Cox

Cramer

Crane

Crapo

Cubin

Deal

DeLay

Deutsch

Diaz-Balart

Dickey

Dicks

Dingell

Dixon

Dooley

Doolittle

Dornan

Dreier

Dunn

Durbin

Ehlers

Ehrlich

Emerson

Eshoo

Farr

Fazio

Fields (TX)

Flake

Flanagan

Foley

Ford

Fox

Frank (MA)

Franks (CT)

Frisa

Frost

Funderburk

Gallegly

Ganske

Gekas

Gephardt

Geren

Gilchrest

Gillmor

Goodlatte

Goodling

Goss

Graham

Greenwood

Gunderson

Gutierrez

Gutknecht

Hall (OH)

Hamilton

Hansen

Hastert

Hastings (FL)

Hastings (WA)

Hayworth

Hefner

Hilliard

Hobson

Hoekstra

Hoke

Hostettler

Hoyer

Hunter

Hutchinson

Hyde

Jackson-Lee

Jacobs

Johnson (CT)

Johnson, E.B.

Jones

Kelly

Kennedy (MA)

Kennedy (RI)

Kennelly

Kildee

Kim

King

Kleczka

Klug

Knollenberg

LaHood

LaTourette

Laughlin

Levin

Lewis (CA)

Lewis (GA)

Lewis (KY)

Lightfoot

Lincoln

Linder

Livingston

LoBiondo

Longley

Lowey

Manzullo

Martini

McCrery

McHugh

McInnis

McKeon

McKinney

Meek

Menendez

Metcalf

Mfume

Mica

Miller (CA)

Miller (FL)

Molinari

Mollohan

Montgomery

Moorhead

Myers

Myrick

Nadler

Neal

Nethercutt

Ney

Norwood

Nussle

Olver

Orton

Oxley

Packard

Parker

Pastor

Paxon

Payne (NJ)

Payne (VA)

Pelosi

Peterson (FL)

Peterson (MN)

Pickett

Pombo

Pomeroy

Porter

Portman

Quinn

Radanovich

Rahall

Ramstad

Richardson

Riggs

Roberts

Roemer

Rogers

Rohrabacher

Ros-Lehtinen

Roukema

Roybal-Allard

Royce

Rush

Salmon

Sawyer

Saxton

Schaefer

Schiff

Schroeder

Schumer

Scott

Serrano

Shadegg

Shaw

Shays

Shuster

Sisisky

Skeen

Smith (MI)

Smith (NJ)

Smith (WA)

Solomon

Souder

Stearns

Stockman

Studds

Stump

Talent

Tate

Tauzin

Taylor (MS)

Taylor (NC)

Tejeda

Thompson

Thornberry

Thornton

Tiahrt

Torres

Torricelli

Traficant

Upton

Vucanovich

Waldholtz

Walker

Walsh

Ward

Watt (NC)

Weldon (FL)

Weldon (PA)

Weller

White

Whitfield

Wicker

Wise

Woolsey

Wynn

NOES—149

Abercrombie

Allard

Baesler

Baker (CA)

Baldacci

Bass

Becerra

Beilenson

Bereuter

Boehlert

Borski

Brown (OH)

Brownback

Bryant (TN)

Bryant (TX)

Bunn

Bunning

Calvert

Canady

Chapman

Clement

Coble

Collins (GA)

Collins (IL)

Conyers

Costello

Coyne

Cremeans

Cunningham

Danner

Davis

DeFazio

DeLauro

Dellums

Doggett

Doyle

Duncan

Edwards

Engel

English

Ensign

Evans

Everett

Ewing

Fattah

Fawell

Fields (LA)

Foglietta

Forbes

Fowler

Franks (NJ)

Frelinghuysen

Furse

Gejdenson

Gibbons

Gilman

Gonzalez

Gordon

Green

Hall (TX)

Hancock

Harman

Hefley

Heineman

Hilleary

Hinchey

Holden

Horn

Houghton

Inglis

Istook

Jefferson

Johnson (SD)

Johnson, Sam

Johnston

Kanjorski

Kasich

Kingston

Klink

Kolbe

LaFalce

Lantos

Largent

Latham

Lazio

Leach

Lipinski

Lofgren

Lucas

Luther

Manton

Markey

Martinez

Mascara

Matsui

McCarthy

McCollum

McDermott

McHale

McNulty

Meehan

Meyers

Mineta

Minge

Mink

Moran

Morella

Murtha

Neumann

Oberstar

Obey

Pallone

Petri

Poshard

Pryce

Quillen

Reed

Regula

Rivers

Roth

Sabo

Sanders

Sanford

Seastrand

Sensenbrenner

Skaggs

Skelton

Slaughter

Smith (TX)

Spence

Stark

Stenholm

Stokes

Stupak

Tanner

Thomas

Torkildsen

Velazquez

Vento

Visclosky

Volkmer

Wamp

Waters

Watts (OK)

Wolf

Wyden

Yates

Zeliff

Zimmer

NOT VOTING—29

Andrews

Bateman

Collins (MI)

Condit

Cooley

de la Garza

Filner

Hayes

Herger

Kaptur

Maloney

McDade

McIntosh

Moakley

Ortiz

Owens

Rangel

Reynolds

Rose

Scarborough

Spratt

Thurman

Towns

Tucker

Waxman

Williams

Wilson

Young (AK)

Young (FL)

So the amendment was agreed to.

After some further time,

T109.7 RECORDED VOTE

A recorded vote by electronic device

was ordered in the Committee of the

Whole on the following amendment

submitted by Mr. MARKEY: