HR 3982 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Open Internet Preservation Act of 2014

Introduced Feb 3, 2014 Originated House Sponsor Henry A. Waxman D-CA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Feb 7, 2014 Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

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.

IntroducedFeb 3, 2014
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Open Internet Preservation Act of 2014 - Restores rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the Report and Order in the matter of preserving the open Internet and broadband industry practices (adopted on December 21, 2010) that were vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Verizon v. Federal Communications Commission (decided on January 14, 2014).

Requires such rules to remain in effect until the FCC takes final action in the proceedings remanded to the FCC in such D.C. Circuit decision.

Cosponsors 36

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 3, 2014 to Jul 7, 2014, with 8 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo	Original	Feb 3, 2014
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui	Original	Feb 3, 2014
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.	Original	Feb 3, 2014
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Feb 3, 2014
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano	Original	Feb 3, 2014
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle	Original	Feb 3, 2014
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene	Original	Feb 3, 2014
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren	Original	Feb 3, 2014
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Feb 4, 2014
D-NH	Carol Shea-Porter		Feb 4, 2014
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Feb 4, 2014
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Feb 4, 2014
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Feb 4, 2014
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Feb 4, 2014
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Feb 5, 2014

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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Feb 7, 2014Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Feb 3, 2014Introduced in House
Feb 3, 2014Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1981	Open Internet Preservation Act of 2014	Identical bill	Feb 3, 2014
HR 5429	Open Internet Act of 2014	Related bill	Sep 11, 2014

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.

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Feb 3, 2014Introduced in House

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