H.R. 735 Amendment Vote

One amendment has been proposed for H.R. 735: The Anti-Data Cap Act:

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Mr. Speaker, I propose the following be added as section 4

SECTION 4: Punishments

(a) Upon detection of one or more violations of the protection listed in Section III of this Act, the offending ISP shall be immediately notified.

(b) The ISP shall have sixty (60) days to cease all operations in violation with this Act, or it shall be considered an offense.

(c) Each instance of an ISP violating the provisions determined in this act shall be punished according to the number of offenses committed as outlined in Sec. 4(e)

(d) Every notice an ISP receives after the third notice will be instantly counted as an offense, regardless of cooperation with previous notices, and will be punished as outlined Sec. 4(e).

(e) If an ISP fails to cease all violating operations within sixty days, or has violated the provisions of this act on more than three occasions, one of the following punishments shall be administered against the ISP.

(i) First Offense -- The first time an ISP fails to properly change their practices that are in violation with this act, it shall be fined the equivalent amount of the value in United States Dollars of 1% of their telecommunications equipment.

(ii) Second Offense -- The second time an ISP fails to properly change their practices that are in violation with this act, it shall be fined not less than the equivalent amount of the value in United States Dollars of 3% of their telecommunications equipment.

(iii) Third Offense -- The third time an ISP fails to properly change their practices that are in violation with this act, it shall be fined not less than the equivalent amount of the value in United States Dollars of 5% of their telecommunications equipment. The ISP will also be referred to the United States Justice Department for investigation of potential criminal activity on the part of the leadership of the ISP

(iv) Additional Offenses -- Any additional instance of the ISP failing to amend their practices that are in violation with this Act, shall be fined not less than the equivalent amount of the value in United States Dollars of 7% of their telecommunications equipment with an additional 2% for each offense past the third.

(f) Should an ISP fail to cease all violating operations within sixty days of receiving a punishment, it will be treated as another offense, and the respective punishment will be administered. The offending ISP will then have another sixty days to cease all violating operations

(g) The FCC shall be responsible for designing and implementing regulations based off this act that will allow:

(i) Private citizens and groups to file complaints and sue in a court of law, should they believe an ISP is violating this Act.

(ii) The FCC to evaluate the worth of an ISPs telecommunications equipment.

(iii) The FCC to investigate citizen complaints and ISPs for violations of this Act

(iv) The FCC to administer punishments to ISPs should they be found to be in violation of any provision of this Act.

(h) The FCC has the authority to modify punishments and date deadlines on the basis of specific circumstances, the severity of violation and the size of the ISP

Proposed by Representative u/piratecody

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