HR 5806
110th Congress
House
Science, Technology, Communications
Administrative procedure
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
School security
Secondary education
Telecommunication rates
Wireless communication
School Emergency Notification Deployment Act
Introduced: April 15, 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
Apr 16, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
Apr 15, 2008
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Apr 15, 2008
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
School Emergency Notification Deployment Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish competitively neutral rules to permit universal service support to public and nonprofit elementary and secondary schools to be used for a communications service or system that can be used by school administrators and other public officials to deliver emergency messages to students and their parents, faculty, and staff, and their designated emergency contacts, via messages carried over telecommunications and information services, including those transmitted by providers of commercial mobile service.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
Committees of jurisdiction
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