HR 5435
110th Congress
House
Science, Technology, Communications
Arizona
Boundaries
Competitive bidding
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Latin America
Law
Licenses
Mexico
New Mexico
Television broadcasting
Television stations
Texas
DTV Border Fix Act
Introduced: February 13, 2008
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 13, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
Feb 13, 2008
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Feb 13, 2008
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
DTV Border Fix Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow the renewal of a full-power analog television broadcasting license through February 17, 2014, for stations located within 50 miles of the U.S. border with Mexico, provided certain requirements are met, including that the renewal does not prevent the auction of recovered spectrum or encumber or interfere with any channel reserved for public safety use.
Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), if mutually exclusive applications are submitted to use a channel under the amendments made by this Act, to award the authority to use the channel through competitive bidding under existing procedures.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
Committees of jurisdiction
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