1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Enhancing Broadcaster Diversity and Inclusion by Verifying and Ensuring the Reporting required by Statute Is Transpiring and Yielding Data Act or the Enhancing Broadcaster DIVERSITY Data Act . 2. Ownership and diversity reporting (a) Sense of Congress Recognizing the long history of exclusion of women and people of color from media resources in the United States, and the responsibility of broadcasters to be responsive to the needs and interests of their communities of license, it is the sense of Congress that the Commission should carry out policies promoting diversity, localism, and inclusion in the broadcast and cable industries. As such, Congress directs the Commission to take the actions described in subsection (b) and the amendments made by such subsection. (b) Media ownership and diversity (1) Employment data Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, in accordance with sections 334(a) and 634(d)(3)(A) of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 334(a) ; 554(d)(3)(A)), the Commission, after notice and comment, shall complete the proceeding initiated in the Third Report and Order and Fourth Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the ongoing Review of the Commission’s Broadcast and Cable Equal Employment Opportunity Rules and Policies, MM Docket No. 98–204. (2) Ownership data Part I of title III of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 344. Ownership data (a) In general Except as specifically provided in subsection (b), the Commission may not revise— (1) section 73.3615 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations (relating to ownership reports), as in effect on the date of the enactment of this section, as such section 73.3615 applies to television broadcast station licensees and permittees