Sec. 203. FCC to prescribe standardized form for reporting candidate campaign ads
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Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall initiate a rulemaking proceeding to establish a standardized form to be used by each broadcasting station, as defined in section 315(f) of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 315(f) ) (as redesignated by section 201(b)(1)), to record and report the purchase of advertising time by or on behalf of a candidate for nomination for election, or for election, to Federal elective office. The form prescribed by the Federal Communications Commission under subsection
(a)shall require a broadcasting station to report to the Federal Communications Commission and to the Federal Election Commission, at a minimum— the station call letters and mailing address; the name and telephone number of the station’s sales manager (or individual with responsibility for advertising sales); the name of the candidate who purchased the advertising time, or on whose behalf the advertising time was purchased, and the Federal elective office for which he or she is a candidate; the name, mailing address, and telephone number of the person responsible for purchasing broadcast political advertising for the candidate; notation as to whether the purchase agreement for which the information is being reported is a draft or final version; and with respect to the advertisement— the date and time of the broadcast; the program in which the advertisement was broadcast; and the length of the broadcast airtime. In its rulemaking under subsection (a), the Federal Communications Commission shall require any broadcasting station required to file a report under this section that maintains an internet website to make available a link to each such report on that website.
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