US Congress Senate Bill 899 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: Introduced on April 27 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2009-04-27 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

DTV Cliff Effect Assistance Act of 2009 - Directs the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information of the Department of Commerce to make payments (not to exceed $125 million in the aggregate) during FY2009-FY2012 from the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Fund for a program through which a local civil government body may receive funding for the construction and equipment of digital TV translators to fill gaps in the digital coverage for full-power stations where the gaps were created from the conversion of the signal from analog to digital. Requires any translator tower built under this Act to reasonably facilitate the collocation of any wireless communications or broadband equipment (unless there is clear evidence of unresolvable signal interference issues).

DTV Cliff Effect Assistance Act of 2009

Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]

Sen. Olympia Snowe [R-ME]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-04-27		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
2009-04-27		Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4756-4757)

HB2903 (Same As) 2009-06-17 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/899/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/s899/BILLS-111s899is.pdf