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HR 983 110th Congress House

Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2007

Official title: To preserve local radio broadcast emergency and other services and to require the Federal Communications Commission to conduct a rulemaking for that purpose.

Introduced: June 9, 2008 See on congress.gov
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Feb 13, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
Feb 12, 2007
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Feb 12, 2007
Introduced in House
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 Latest action February 13, 2007

Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2007 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), consistent with the representations made by digital audio radio satellite service licensees that digital audio radio satellite service would be a national service, to revise its regulations to provide that digital audio radio satellite service (DARSS): (1) licensees shall 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.

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.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 983: Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2007. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-983/
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