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Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2006

Introduced: March 15, 2006 See on congress.gov
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Mar 15, 2006
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Mar 15, 2006
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2205-2206)
Mar 15, 2006
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2006 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to revise its regulations to provide that digital audio radio satellite service (DARSS): (1) licensees may not provide services that are locally differentiated or that result in programming being delivered to consumers in one geographic market that is different from programming delivered in any other geographic market; and (2) repeaters shall be restricted to simultaneously retransmitting the programming transmitted by satellite directly to DARSS subscribers' receivers and may not be used to distribute any information not also transmitted to all subscribers' receivers.

Requires the FCC to complete a rulemaking proceeding to determine whether DARSS licensees should be permitted to provide locally oriented services on nationally distributed channels, taking into account, among other things, the ability of such licensees to afford listeners the same emergency and other information as is afforded listeners of local broadcast stations.

What's happening now March 15, 2006

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

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 998 Related bill Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2005
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Grassley, Chuck
Iowa · May 4, 2006
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2418: Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2006. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-2418/
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"S. 2418: Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2006." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-2418/.
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S. 2418, 109th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-2418/.
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