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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5564 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for certain require-
ments with respect to ownership and diversity reporting for television 
broadcast stations and cable operators, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 9, 2020 
Ms. CLARKE of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for 
certain requirements with respect to ownership and diver-
sity reporting for television broadcast stations and cable 
operators, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Enhancing Broad-
caster Diversity and Inclusion by Verifying and Ensuring 
the Reporting required by Statute Is Transpiring and 
Yielding Data Act’’ or the ‘‘Enhancing Broadcaster DI-
VERSITY Data Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. OWNERSHIP AND DIVERSITY REPORTING. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—Recognizing the long his-
tory of exclusion of women and people of color from media 
resources in the United States, and the responsibility of 
broadcasters to be responsive to the needs and interests 
of their communities of license, it is the sense of Congress 
that the Commission should carry out policies promoting 
diversity, localism, and inclusion in the broadcast and 
cable industries. As such, Congress directs the Commis-
sion to take the actions described in subsection (b) and 
the amendments made by such subsection. 
(b) MEDIA OWNERSHIP AND DIVERSITY.— 
(1) EMPLOYMENT
DATA.—Not later than 18 
months after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
in accordance with sections 334(a) and 634(d)(3)(A) 
of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
334(a); 554(d)(3)(A)), the Commission, after notice 
and comment, shall complete the proceeding initiated 
in the Third Report and Order and Fourth Notice 
of Proposed Rulemaking in the ongoing Review of 
the Commission’s Broadcast and Cable Equal Em-
ployment Opportunity Rules and Policies, MM Dock-
et No. 98–204. 
(2) OWNERSHIP DATA.—Part I of title III of 
the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 301 et 
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘SEC. 344. OWNERSHIP DATA. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as specifically provided 
in subsection (b), the Commission may not revise— 
‘‘(1) section 73.3615 of title 47, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations (relating to ownership reports), as 
in effect on the date of the enactment of this sec-
tion, as such section 73.3615 applies to television 
broadcast station licensees and permittees; or 
‘‘(2) the forms used by the licensees and per-
mittees described in paragraph (1) to report perti-
nent ownership data to the Commission. 
‘‘(b) TECHNICAL REVISIONS OR IMPROVEMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
the Commission may revise the regulations described 
in subsection (a) to augment the quality and suffi-
ciency of the reports required under such regula-
tions, to make nonsubstantive technical or clerical 
revisions in such regulations as necessary to reflect 
changes in technology, terminology, or Commission 
organization, or to ensure the anonymity of station- 
specific ownership data unnecessary to the analysis 
of aggregated industry ownership trends. 
‘‘(2) LIMITATION.—The Commission may not 
diminish or otherwise reduce the frequency or qual-
ity of the reports required under the regulations de-
scribed in subsection (a).’’. 
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(3) OWNERSHIP AND DIVERSITY REPORT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Section 13(d)(3) of the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
163(d)(3)) is amended by striking ‘‘in accord-
ance with the national policy under section 
257(b)’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘and in-
clude in the report required by subsection (a) 
the most recent data collected under the regula-
tions described in sections 334(a), 344(a), and 
634(d)(3)(A), and analysis of such data, as 
such barriers and such data relate to the na-
tional policy under section 257(b)’’. 
(B) OWNERSHIP
DATABASE.—Not later 
than 2 years after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Commission shall create a public, 
searchable database of the data collected under 
the regulations described in section 344(a) of 
the Communications Act of 1934, as added by 
paragraph (2), that members of the public may 
use to search for and produce reports identi-
fying— 
(i) ownership data with respect to any 
particular station; 
(ii) ownership interests of any person 
who holds a license; 
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(iii) industry-wide statistics; 
(iv) statistics for particular geo-
graphic regions; or 
(v) statistics for particular licensee 
classifications. 
(c) COMMISSION DEFINED.—In this section, the term 
‘‘Commission’’ means the Federal Communications Com-
mission. 
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