IIB 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 734 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
FEBRUARY 25, 2015 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation 
AN ACT 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to consolidate 
the reporting obligations of the Federal Communications 
Commission in order to improve congressional oversight 
and reduce reporting burdens. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Communica-
tions Commission Consolidated Reporting Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. COMMUNICATIONS MARKETPLACE REPORT. 
Title I of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 151 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘SEC. 13. COMMUNICATIONS MARKETPLACE REPORT. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—In the last quarter of every even- 
numbered year, the Commission shall publish on its 
website and submit to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate 
a report on the state of the communications marketplace. 
‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—Each report required by sub-
section (a) shall— 
‘‘(1) assess the state of competition in the com-
munications marketplace, including competition to 
deliver voice, video, audio, and data services among 
providers of telecommunications, providers of com-
mercial mobile service (as defined in section 332), 
multichannel video programming distributors (as de-
fined in section 602), broadcast stations, providers 
of satellite communications, Internet service pro-
viders, and other providers of communications serv-
ices; 
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‘‘(2) assess the state of deployment of commu-
nications 
capabilities, 
including 
advanced 
tele-
communications capability (as defined in section 706 
of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (47 U.S.C. 
1302)), regardless of the technology used for such 
deployment, 
including 
whether 
advanced 
tele-
communications capability is being deployed to all 
Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion; 
‘‘(3) assess whether laws, regulations, or regu-
latory practices (whether those of the Federal Gov-
ernment, States, political subdivisions of States, In-
dian tribes or tribal organizations (as such terms are 
defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination 
and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b)), or 
foreign governments) pose a barrier to competitive 
entry into the communications marketplace or to the 
competitive expansion of existing providers of com-
munications services; 
‘‘(4) describe the agenda of the Commission for 
the next 2-year period for addressing the challenges 
and opportunities in the communications market-
place that were identified through the assessments 
under paragraphs (1) through (3); and 
‘‘(5) describe the actions that the Commission 
has taken in pursuit of the agenda described pursu-
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