The bill could also require Internet access providers to block entry to gambling Web sites.
The rules also require Internet radio stations to count their users and report their geographic locations.
The measure would require Internet service providers, like America Online, to block access to gambling sites.
Those rules require Internet service providers to treat all traffic equally, rather than favoring some transmissions over another.
The bill will require internet firms to have "permanent capabilities" to collect and store communications data, and intercept material.
China recently published sweeping new rules that require Internet companies to apply for a licence and hold them responsible for illegal content carried on their websites.
Lawmakers in Spain have proposed a measure that, like the British proposal, could require Internet service providers to block access to certain sites.
The Netherlands is considering a bill that would require Internet users to consent to being tracked as they travel from Web site to Web site.
E.U. negotiators, for example, are said to have balked at a U.S.-backed proposal to require Internet service providers to take tough steps against digital piracy.
It will therefore require internet providers to retain Internet Protocol - or IP - address data to identify individual users of internet services.
The legislation threatens to delay any effort by the Federal Communications Commission to require Internet telephone providers to make the investments needed to connect customers to 911 services.
