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S.Res. 283

ResolutionFederalSenatePassed Senate
A resolution affirming the need to protect children in the United States from indecent programming.
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Passed
Latest Action · December 9, 2003
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S16213; text as passed Senate: CR S16213; text of measure as introduced: CR S16141-16142)
Congress
108th (2003–2005)
Introduced
December 9, 2003
Cosponsors (11)
1D 10R
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(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Federal Communications Commission should: (1) reconsider a specified decision of its Enforcement Bureau in light of the public policy considerations in protecting children from indecent broadcasting material; (2) return to enforcing its own standard for indecency in broadcast media as established under a specified declaratory order; (3) undertake new efforts to sanction broadcast licensees that refuse to adhere to the standards established by such order; (4) protect children from the degrading influences of indecent programming; (5) use its authority to protect the public from indecent broadcasts; (6) expeditiously resolve all indecency complaints and consider reviewing all such complaints at the full Commission level; and (7) aggressively investigate and enforce all indecency allegations.

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