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H.R.3487
Sponsor: Rep Oxley, Michael G.(introduced 11/18/1999)
Latest Major Action: 12/3/1999 Referred to House subcommittee
Title: To provide consumers in multitenant buildings with the benefits of competition among providers of telecommunications services by ensuring reasonable and nondiscriminatory access to rooftops of mulitenants buildings by competitive telecommunications carriers, and promote the development of fixed wireless, local telephony, and broadband infrastructure, and for other purposes.
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TITLE(S):  (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions)
11/18/1999:
Referred to the House Committee on Commerce.
12/3/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.
COMMITTEE(S):
RELATED BILL DETAILS:

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AMENDMENT(S):

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COSPONSORS(6), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Boucher, Rick - 11/18/1999 Rep Davis, Thomas M. - 11/18/1999
Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 11/18/1999 Rep Klink, Ron - 6/20/2000
Rep Smith, Adam - 3/16/2000 Rep Stupak, Bart - 11/18/1999

SUMMARY AS OF:
11/18/1999--Introduced.

Competitive Broadband Telecommunications Rooftop Access Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the owner of an occupied multitenant building, within 15 days of a telecommunications carrier request, to permit such carrier reasonable, standardized, and nondiscriminatory access: (1) to install, maintain, and operate telecommunications transmission and reception antennas on top of such buildings and related receiver equipment in mechanical rooms or closets; and (2) to vertical and horizontal building risers, for the provision of telecommunications or information service to such tenants. Provides required and permissible conditions for such access. Allows such owners to charge reasonable compensation for such access. Provides civil penalties for refusal to provide such access.