S.Amdt. 2311

SA 2311. Ms. CANTWELL (for herself and Mrs. Fischer) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill H.R. 5515, to
authorize

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appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. TERMINATION OF MULTICHANNEL VIDEO PROGRAMMING AND
INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE CONTRACTS.

(a) In General.--Section 305A of the Servicemembers Civil
Relief Act (50 U.S.C. 3956) is amended--
(1) in the section heading, by inserting ``, multichannel
video programming, and internet access'' after ``telephone'';
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ``cellular telephone
service or telephone exchange service'' and inserting
``commercial mobile service, telephone exchange service,
internet access service, or multichannel video programming
service'';
(3) in subsection (c), by inserting ``for commercial mobile
service or telephone exchange service'' before
``terminated'';
(4) in subsection (d), in the matter preceding paragraph
(1), by striking ``cellular telephone service'' and inserting
``commercial mobile service'';
(5) in subsection (e)--
(A) by striking ``For any'' and inserting the following:
``(1) In general.--For any'';
(B) by striking ``If the'' and inserting the following:
``(2) Reinstatement of service.--If the''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
``(3) Return of provider-owned equipment.--If a
servicemember terminates a contract under subsection (a), the
servicemember shall return any provider-owned consumer
premises equipment to the service provider not later than 10
days after the date on which service is disconnected.''; and
(6) in subsection (g)--
(A) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (4); and
(B) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
``(1) The term `commercial mobile service' has the meaning
given that term in section 332(d) of the Communications Act
of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 332(d)).
``(2) The term `multichannel video programming service'
means a subscription video service offered by a multichannel
video programming distributor, as that term is defined in
section 602 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C.
522), over a system the distributor owns or controls.
``(3) The term `provider-owned consumer premises equipment'
means any equipment that a provider of internet access
service or multichannel video programming service rents or
loans to a customer during the provision of that service,
including gateways, routers, cable modems, voice-capable
modems, CableCARDs, converters, digital adapters, remote
controls, and any other equipment provided.''.
(b) Clerical Amendments.--
(1) Title heading.--The heading for title III of the
Servicemembers Civil Relief Act is amended by striking
``TELEPHONE'' and inserting ``COMMUNICATIONS''.
(2) Table of contents.--The table of contents in section
1(b) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act is amended--
(A) by striking the item relating to title III and
inserting the following:

``TITLE III--RENT, INSTALLMENT CONTRACTS, MORTGAGES, LIENS, ASSIGNMENT,
LEASES, COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE CONTRACTS''; and

(B) by striking the item relating to section 305A and
inserting the following:

``Sec. 305A. Termination of telephone, multichannel video programming,
and internet access service contracts.''.
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