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Union Calendar No. 669 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2409 
[Report No. 115–866] 
To allow servicemembers to terminate their cable, satellite television, and 
Internet access service contracts while deployed. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 11, 2017 
Mr. COSTELLO of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mr. KILMER) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
JULY 24, 2018 
Additional sponsors: Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. BRAT, Miss GONZA´LEZ-COLO´N of 
Puerto Rico, and Mr. CALVERT 
JULY 24, 2018 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
and ordered to be printed 
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A BILL 
To allow servicemembers to terminate their cable, satellite 
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deployed. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. TERMINATION OF MULTICHANNEL VIDEO PRO-
GRAMMING AND INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE 
CONTRACTS. 
(a) 
IN
GENERAL.—Section 
305A 
of 
the 
Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. 3956) is 
amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by inserting ‘‘, MUL-
TICHANNEL
VIDEO
PROGRAMMING, 
AND 
INTERNET ACCESS’’ after ‘‘TELEPHONE’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘cellular tele-
phone service or telephone exchange service’’ and in-
serting ‘‘commercial mobile service, telephone ex-
change service, Internet access service, or multi-
channel video programming service’’; 
(3) in subsection (c), by inserting ‘‘for commer-
cial mobile service or telephone exchange service’’ be-
fore ‘‘terminated’’; 
(4) in subsection (d), in the matter preceding 
paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘cellular telephone serv-
ice’’ and inserting ‘‘commercial mobile service’’; 
(5) in subsection (e)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘For any’’ and inserting 
the following: 
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For any’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘If the’’ and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(2) REINSTATEMENT
OF
SERVICE.—If the’’; 
and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) RETURN
OF
PROVIDER-OWNED
EQUIP-
MENT.—If a servicemember terminates a contract 
under subsection (a), the servicemember shall return 
any provider-owned consumer premises equipment to 
the service provider not later than 10 days after the 
date on which service is disconnected.’’; and 
(6) in subsection (g)— 
(A) by redesignating paragraph (2) as 
paragraph (4); and 
(B) by striking paragraph (1) and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘commercial mobile service’ has 
the meaning given that term in section 332(d) of the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 332(d)). 
‘‘(2) The term ‘multichannel video program-
ming service’ means a subscription video service of-
fered by a multichannel video programming dis-
tributor, as that term is defined in section 602 of 
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the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 522), 
over a system the distributor owns or controls. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘provider-owned consumer prem-
ises equipment’ means any equipment that a pro-
vider of Internet access service or multichannel video 
programming service rents or loans to a customer 
during the provision of that service, including gate-
ways, routers, cable modems, voice-capable modems, 
CableCARDs, converters, digital adapters, remote 
controls, and any other equipment provided.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) TITLE HEADING.—The heading for title III 
of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act is amended 
by 
striking 
‘‘TELEPHONE’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘COMMUNICATIONS’’. 
(2) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con-
tents in section 1(b) of the Servicemembers Civil Re-
lief Act is amended— 
(A) by striking the item relating to title III 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘TITLE 
III—RENT, 
INSTALLMENT 
CONTRACTS, 
MORTGAGES, 
LIENS, ASSIGNMENT, LEASES, COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE CON-
TRACTS’’; 
and 
(B) by striking the item relating to section 
305A and inserting the following: 
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Union Calendar No. 669 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2409 
[Report No. 115–866] 
A BILL 
To allow servicemembers to terminate their cable, 
satellite television, and Internet access service 
contracts while deployed. 
JULY 24, 2018 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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