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HR 5081 111th Congress House

Broadband for First Responders Act of 2010

Official title: To enhance public safety by making more spectrum available to public safety agencies, to facilitate the development of a wireless public safety broadband netwo… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To enhance public safety by making more spectrum available to public safety agencies, to facilitate the development of a wireless public safety broadband network, to provide standards for the spectrum needs of public safety agencies, and for other purposes.

Introduced: July 26, 2010 See on congress.gov
Science, Technology, Communications Administrative law and regulatory proceduresBroadcasting, cable, digital technologiesEmergency communications systemsFederal Communications Commission (FCC)Telephone and wireless communication
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Apr 20, 2010
Introduced in House
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 Latest action April 20, 2010

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Broadband for First Responders Act of 2010 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to increase the electromagnetic spectrum allocation for public safety services by 10 megahertz and reduce such allocation for commercial use by the same amount.

Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to: (1) allocate the paired electromagnetic spectrum bands of 758-763 megahertz and 788-793 megahertz (referred to as D Block) for public safety broadband communications and assign such paired bands to public safety; (2) establish rules to permit a public safety broadband licensee to authorize public safety service providers to construct and operate a wireless public safety broadband network in the licensee's spectrum if such authorization would expedite public safety broadband communications; (3) require that any wireless public safety broadband network be fully interoperable, provide for user roaming, be disaster survivable, and have the appropriate level of cyber security; (4) establish regulations to authorize the shared use of the public safety broadband spectrum and network infrastructure by entities that are not defined as public safety services; (5) establish regulations to allow use of the public safety broadband spectrum by emergency response providers; and (6) develop a public safety agency statement of requirements that enables nationwide interoperability and roaming across any communications system using public safety broadband spectrum.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5081: Broadband for First Responders Act of 2010. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-5081/
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"H.R. 5081: Broadband for First Responders Act of 2010." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-5081/.
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