The Senate Commerce Committee plans to mark up an indecency bill ...
The Senate Commerce Committee plans to mark up an indecency bill (S-193) introduced in Jan. 2005 by Sen. Brownback (R-Kan.) some time this month, according to a committee staffer. The bill would set fines of $325,000 for each violation…
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under broadcast bans on “obscene, indecent or profane” language with a maximum penalty of $3 million. Broadcasters would be more amenable to such a bill because it would exclude controversial provisions like a “three strikes and you're out” stipulation in a House bill (HR-310) that could put stations out of business, said industry sources who asked not to be identified. The House bill would boost indecency fines more than 10-fold to a maximum $500,000 per instance (CD March 1 p1).