Public Safety Interoperability Implementation Act
Latest action · Jul 19, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
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.
- IntroducedJul 19, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Public Safety Interoperability Implementation Act - Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to establish the Public Safety Communications Trust Fund to make grants to implement interoperability and modernization for the communications needs of public safety, fire, emergency, law enforcement, and crisis management by state and local government agencies and instrumentalities and nonprofit organizations.
Requires that the Fund be a separate Fund in the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Fund and that it consist of certain amounts from the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Fund, appropriations under this Act, and proceeds from the sale of certain bands of government-owned broadcast spectrum.
Cosponsors 4
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 19, 2007 to Jun 23, 2008, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Original | Jul 19, 2007 |
| R-NY | Vito Fossella | Original | Jul 19, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Jul 23, 2007 | |
| D-IN | André Carson | Jun 23, 2008 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 19, 2007Introduced in House
- Jul 19, 2007Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- Jul 19, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Emergency Management.
- Broadband
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Economics and Public Finance
- Emergency communication systems
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medicine
- Fire fighters
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government trust funds
- Grants-in-aid
- Health
- Law
- Law enforcement officers
- Licenses
- Medical personnel
- Nonprofit organizations
- Paramedical personnel
- Police
- Police communication systems
- Radio spectrum allocation
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Television broadcasting
- Television frequency allocation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 19, 2007Introduced in House
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