On October 8 Wisconsin Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin filed the Community Access Preservation Act, which, if enacted, would preserve and protect PEG access channels in four ways. This bill:

• Removes use restrictions on PEG access fees;
• Ends operators’ discriminatory treatment of PEG channels;
• Directs the FCC to study and report on the effects recent states’ video franchising legislation have had on PEG access; and
• Defines all video services delivered to the home over wire as “cable” for the purposes of the act, regardless of the transmission protocol used.

The Alliance for Community Media worked with Congresswoman Baldwin to craft this bill (HR 3745). The goal of our Preserve Community Access Now campaign is to get co-sponsors for the bill in the House, get a version filed in the Senate, get the bill passed by Congress, and signed by the President – before the summer recess

More info about this important legislation and how you can participate if you wish to contact your Congressional Representative and Representative Baldwin to voice your support can be found at http://www.alliancecm.org/cap.