Warning, Alert, and Response Network Act
Latest action · Dec 8, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedDec 5, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Warning, Alert, and Response Network Act - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to: (1) adopt technical requirements for commercial mobile service alerts; and (2) establish a Commercial Mobile Service Alert Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the FCC for assisting commercial mobile service providers in providing emergency alerts to their subscribers.
Requires the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology to establish a research, development, testing, and evaluation program to support the development of technologies to increase the number of commercial mobile service devices that can receive emergency alerts.
Requires the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere to establish a grant program to provide for outdoor alerting technologies in remote communities to enable residents of such communities to receive emergency alerts.
Provides for additional funding for commercial mobile service alerts from the Digital Transition and Public Safety Fund.
Authorizes the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to borrow up to $106 million from the Treasury to implement mobile alert programs under this Act.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 8, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology.
- Dec 5, 2006Introduced in House
- Dec 5, 2006Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.
- Administrative procedure
- Broadband
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Economics and Public Finance
- Emergency communication systems
- Emergency Management
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to research
- Federal Communications Commission
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Grants-in-aid
- Housing and Community Development
- Independent regulatory commissions
- Law
- Liability (Law)
- Licenses
- Research and development
- Research grants
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Standards
- Technological innovations
- Television broadcasting
- Wireless communication
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 5, 2006Introduced in House
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