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S 2454 107th Congress Senate

Auction Reform Act of 2002

Official title: A bill to eliminate the deadlines for spectrum auctions of spectrum previously allocated to television broadcasting.

Introduced: May 10, 2002 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
May 2, 2002
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 Latest action May 2, 2002

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Auction Reform Act of 2002 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, and other Federal law to repeal current deadlines for licenses for and auctioning of electromagnetic spectrum used by analog television broadcasters (which includes spectrum in the general 700 megahertz range). Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from commencing or conducting spectrum auctions 31 and 44, currently scheduled for June 19, 2002.

Requires the FCC to report to Congress: (1) specifying when it intends to reschedule such auctions; and (2) describing progress made in the transition from analog to digital television and in the assignment and allocation of additional spectrum for advanced mobile communications services that warrants the scheduling of such auctions.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 4560 Identical bill Auction Reform Act of 2002
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Wyden, Ron
Oregon · May 10, 2002
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