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.
Latest action · Jul 12, 2005 Became Public Law No: 109-34.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 21, 2005
- Passed SenateJun 21, 2005
- Passed HouseJun 29, 2005
- To the PresidentJun 30, 2005
- Became lawJul 12, 2005
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Amends title VI (Open-market Reorganization for the Betterment of International Telecommunications Act or ORBIT Act) of the Communications Satellite Act of 1962, concerning INTELSAT (a global satellite provider of voice, data, and Internet services) and Inmarsat (a global mobile satellite communications provider), to prohibit any successor entity or separated entity from having officers or managers who are officers or managers of any signatories. (Current law prohibits any successor entity or separated entity from having officers or managers who are officers or managers of any signatories or former signatories or who have any direct financial interest in or financial relationship to any signatories or former signatories, except that such interest may be managed through a blind trust or similar mechanism.) Strikes provsions that prohibited a separated entity from having officers or directors, who are either officers or managers of any intergovernmental organization or who have any direct financial interest in or financial relationship to any international organization, except that such interest may be managed through a blind trust or similar mechanism.
Requires the United States to preserve the space segment capacity of the GMDSS (Global Maritime Distress and Safety System).
Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to review competitive market conditions of domestic and international satellite communications services and include in an annual report an analysis of those conditions.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 16
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 12, 2005Became Public Law No: 109-34.
- Jul 12, 2005Signed by President.
- Jun 30, 2005Presented to President.
- Jun 29, 2005Cleared for White House.
- Jun 29, 2005Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged. (consideration: CR H5372)
- Jun 29, 2005Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.(consideration: CR H5372)
- Jun 29, 2005Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Jun 29, 2005Mr. Barton (TX) asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
- Jun 29, 2005On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H5372)
- Jun 29, 2005Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR H5372)
- Jun 21, 2005Introduced in Senate
- Jun 21, 2005Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6977-6978; text as passed Senate: CR S6977-6978)
- Jun 21, 2005Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Jun 21, 2005Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S6977-6978; text as passed Senate: CR S6977-6978)
- Jun 21, 2005Received in the House.
- Jun 21, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.
- Commerce
- Communication satellites
- Competition
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Corporation directors
- Corporations
- Executives
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Governmental investigations
- International competitiveness
- Nontariff trade barriers
- Privatization
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Space activities
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