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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1282 

To amend the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 to strike the privatization criteria for INTELSAT separated entities, remove certain restrictions on separated and successor entities to INTELSAT, and for other 

purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 21, 2005 

Mr. BURNS introduced the following bill; which was read twice, considered, 

read the third time, and passed 

A BILL 

To amend the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 to strike 

the privatization criteria for INTELSAT separated entities, remove certain restrictions on separated and successor entities to INTELSAT, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. FINANCIAL INTERESTS OF OFFICERS, MAN4 AGERS, OR DIRECTORS. 

5 Section 621(5)(D) of the Communications Satellite 

6 Act of 1962 (47 U.S.C. 763(5)(D)) is amended— 

7 (1) by striking ‘‘(I)’’ in clause (ii); 
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1 (2) by striking ‘‘signatories, or (II)’’ in clause 

2 (ii) and all that follows through ‘‘mechanism;’’ and 

3 inserting ‘‘signatories; and’’; 

4 (3) by striking ‘‘organization; and’’ in clause 

5 (iii) and inserting ‘‘organization.’’; and 

6 (4) by striking clause (iv). 

7 SEC. 2. CRITERIA FOR INTELSAT SEPARATED ENTITIES. 

8 Subtitle B of title VI of the Communications Satellite 

9 Act of 1962 (47 U.S.C. 763 et seq.) is amended by strik10 ing section 623 (47 U.S.C. 763b). 

11 SEC. 3. PRESERVATION OF SPACE SEGMENT CAPACITY OF 

12 THE GMDSS. 

13 Section 624 of the Communications Satellite Act of 

14 1962 (47 U.S.C. 763c) is amended to read as follows: 

15 ‘‘SEC. 624. SPACE SEGMENT CAPACITY OF THE GMDSS. 

16 ‘‘The United States shall preserve the space segment 

17 capacity of the GMDSS. This section is not intended to 

18 alter the status that the GMDSS would otherwise have 

19 under United States laws and regulations of the Inter20 national Telecommunication Union with respect to spec21 trum, orbital locations, or other operational parameters, 

22 or to be a barrier to competition for the provision of 

23 GMDSS services.’’. 
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1 SEC. 4. SATELLITE SERVICE REPORT. 

2 (a) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Federal Communica3 tions Commission shall review competitive market condi4 tions with respect to domestic and international satellite 

5 communications services and shall include in an annual 

6 report an analysis of those conditions. The Commission 

7 shall transmit a copy of the report to the Senate Com8 mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the 

9 House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Com10 merce. 

11 (b) CONTENT.—The Commission shall include in the 

12 report— 

13 (1) an identification of the number and market 

14 share of competitors in domestic and international 

15 satellite markets; 

16 (2) an analysis of whether there is effective 

17 competition in the market for domestic and inter18 national satellite services; and 

19 (3) a list of any foreign nations in which legal 

20 or regulatory practices restrict access to the market 

21 for satellite services in such nation in a manner that 

22 undermines competition or favors a particular com23 petitor or set of competitors. 

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