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(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on March 7, 2016. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Small Business Broadband Deployment Act
(Sec. 2) This bill exempts for five years any small business broadband Internet access service provider with no more than 250,000 subscribers from the enhancements to the transparency rule of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under which any person engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service must disclose publicly accurate information regarding the network management practices, performance, and commercial terms of its broadband Internet access services sufficient for:
consumers to make informed choices regarding their use; and
The FCC shall report to specified congressional committees, within 180 days after enactment of this Act, its recommendations (together with supporting data) on whether:
this exception should be made permanent, and
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 4596 as passed House without amendment on Mar 16, 2016. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Mar 16, 2016
Small Business Broadband Deployment Act
Passed
411 Yea 0 Nay 22 not voting
Crossed both parties No voting member broke with their own party.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Organizations that named H.R. 4596 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
51 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.