PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 2890 PRINTER'S NO. 3269
No. 234 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY PETRONE, DeLUCA, STABACK, VROON, KOSINSKI, FAJT,
HARPER, SALOOM, TIGUE, HERMAN, GIGLIOTTI, BILLOW, TRELLO,
JADLOWIEC, JOHNSON, KRUSZEWSKI, CLARK, S. H. SMITH, CORRIGAN,
SCRIMENTI, HANNA, MUNDY, KAISER AND PISTELLA,
DECEMBER 11, 1991
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MARCH 17, 1992
A RESOLUTION
1 Memorializing the Congress of the United States to enact
2 legislation to reregulate the cable television industry.
3 WHEREAS, The 1984 Cable Communication Policy Act (Public Law
4 98-549, 98 Stat. 2779) provided that rates for basic cable
5 service, which is the tier of service that includes
6 retransmitted local broadcast television signals, would be
7 deregulated where there was effective competition to the cable
8 system; and
9 WHEREAS, The Federal Communications Commission determined
10 that a cable system is subject to effective competition if its
11 subscribers can receive three over-the-air SIX UNDUPLICATED <--
12 broadcast signals; and
13 WHEREAS, This standard served to deregulate cable rates for
14 approximately 97% of all cable systems; and
15 WHEREAS, It has been argued that the cable television
16 industry enjoys undue market power, which it has used to the
1 detriment of consumers, programmers and competing video
2 distributors; therefore be it
3 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
4 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania memorialize the Congress of the
5 United States to enact legislation to reregulate the cable
6 television industry; and be it further
7 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
8 the presiding officers of each house of Congress and to each
9 member of Congress from Pennsylvania.
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