in connection with the person’s campaign for nomination
for election, or election, to public office shall not exceed
the charges made for comparable use of such station by
other users thereof.
‘‘(2) In the case of an eligible House of Representa-
tives candidate, during the 30 days preceding the date of
the primary or primary runoff election and during the 60
days preceding the date of a general or special election
in which the person is a candidate, the charges made for
the use of a broadcasting station by the candidate shall
not exceed 50 percent of the lowest unit charge of the sta-
tion for the same class and amount of time for the same
period.’’;
(2) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as
subsections (f) and (g), respectively;
(3) by inserting after subsection (b) the follow-
ing new subsections:
‘‘(c)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a li-
censee shall not preempt the use, during any period speci-
fied in subsection (b)(1)(A), of a broadcast station by a
legally qualified candidate for public office who has pur-
chased and paid for such use pursuant to subsection
(b)(1)(A).
‘‘(2) If a program to be broadcast by a broadcasting
station is preempted because of circumstances beyond the
control of the broadcasting station, any candidate adver-
tising spot scheduled to be broadcast during that program
may also be preempted.
‘‘(d) If any person makes an independent expenditure
through a communication on a broadcasting station that
expressly advocates the defeat of an eligible House of Rep-
resentatives candidate, or the election of an eligible House
of Representatives candidate (regardless of whether such
opponent is an eligible candidate), the licensee, as applica-
ble, shall, not later than 5 business days after the date
on which the communication is made (or not later than
24 hours after the communication is made if the commu-
nication occurs not more than 2 weeks before the date of
the election), transmit to the candidate—
‘‘(1) a statement of the date and time on which
the communication was made;
‘‘(2) a script or tape recording of the commu-
nication, or an accurate summary of the communica-
tion if a script or tape recording is not available;
and
‘‘(3) an offer of an equal opportunity for the
candidate to use the broadcasting station to respond
to the communication without having to pay for the
use in advance.
‘‘(e) A licensee that endorses a candidate for Federal
office in an editorial shall, within the time period stated
in subsection (d), provide to all other candidates for elec-
tion to the same office—
‘‘(1) a statement of the date and time of the
communication;
‘‘(2) a script or tape recording of the commu-
nication, or an accurate summary of the communica-
tion if a script or tape recording is not available;
and
‘‘(3) an offer of an equal opportunity for the
candidate or spokesperson for the candidate to use
the broadcasting station to respond to the commu-
nication.’’; and
(4) in subsection (f), as redesignated by para-
graph (2)—
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (1);
(B) by striking the period at the end of
paragraph (2) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(3) the terms ‘eligible House of Representa-
tives candidate’ and ‘independent expenditure’ have
the meanings stated in section 301 of the Federal
Election Campaign Act of 1971.’’.
(b) REVOCATION OF LICENSE FOR FAILURE TO PER-
MIT ACCESS.—Section 312(a)(7) of such Act (47 U.S.C.
312(a)(7)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘or repeated’’;
(2) by inserting ‘‘or cable system’’ after ‘‘broad-
casting station’’; and
(3) by striking ‘‘his candidacy’’ and inserting
‘‘his or her candidacy, under the same terms, condi-
tions, and business practices as apply to its most fa-
vored advertiser’’.
(c) MEETING REQUIREMENTS FOR RATES AS CONDI-
TION OF GRANTING OR RENEWAL OF LICENSE.—Section
307 of such Act (47 U.S.C. 307) is amended by adding
at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(f) The continuation of an existing license, the re-
newal of an expiring license, and the issuance of a new
license shall be expressly conditioned on the agreement by
the licensee or the applicant to meet the requirements of
section 315(b), except that the Commission may waive this
condition in the case of a licensee or applicant who dem-
onstrates (in accordance with such criteria as the Commis-
sion may establish in consultation with the Federal Elec-
tion Commission) that meeting such requirements will im-
pose a significant financial hardship.’’.
SEC. 602. CAMPAIGN ADVERTISING AMENDMENTS.
Section 318 of the Federal Election Campaign Act
of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 441d) is amended—
(1) in the matter before paragraph (1) of sub-
section (a), by striking ‘‘Whenever’’ and inserting
‘‘Whenever a political committee makes a disburse-
ment for the purpose of financing any communica-
tion through any broadcasting station, newspaper,
magazine, outdoor advertising facility, mailing, or
any other type of general public political advertising,
or whenever’’;
(2) in the matter before paragraph (1) of sub-
section (a), by striking ‘‘an expenditure’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘a disbursement’’;
(3) in the matter before paragraph (1) of sub-
section (a), by striking ‘‘direct’’;
(4) in paragraph (3) of subsection (a), by in-
serting after ‘‘name’’ the following ‘‘and permanent
street address’’; and
(5) by adding at the end the following new sub-
sections:
‘‘(c) Any printed communication described in sub-
section (a) shall be—
‘‘(1) of sufficient type size to be clearly read-
able by the recipient of the communication;
‘‘(2) contained in a printed box set apart from
the other contents of the communication; and
‘‘(3) consist of a reasonable degree of color con-
trast between the background and the printed state-
ment.
‘‘(d)(1) Any communication described in subsection
(a)(1) or (a)(2) that is provided to and distributed by any
broadcasting station or cable system (as such terms are
defined in sections 315 and 602, respectively, of the Fed-
eral Communications Act of 1934) shall include, in addi-
tion to the requirements of subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2),
an audio statement by the candidate that identifies the
candidate and states that the candidate has approved the
communication.
‘‘(2) If a communication described in paragraph (1)
contains any visual images, the communication shall in-
clude a written statement which contains the same infor-
mation as the audio statement and which—
‘‘(A) appears at the end of the communication
in a clearly readable manner with a reasonable de-
gree of color contrast between the background and
the printed statement, for a period of at least 4 sec-
onds; and