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H.R. 6416 · 115th Congress

Local Television Service and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2018

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Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 115th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

CSR SmithSponsor
8 cosponsors · 5 D, 3 R
DPD Payne TMR MacArthur ASD Sires BWD Watson Coleman JGD Gottheimer FLR LoBiondo LLR Lance DND Norcross

1 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Local Television Service and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2018

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Jul 18, 2018

Local Television Service and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2018

This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission, upon the request of a very high frequency commercial television broadcast station that has relocated to an underserved state, to issue an order providing that the virtual major channel number of such station shall be considered to be the same as the radio frequency channel number of that station.

The order shall apply to a station only if the licensee includes in the request a certification that such station will provide at least one hour daily of news, information, or public affairs programming focused on, or of general interest to, local audiences in the state to which the channel of such station has been reallocated. The order shall cease to apply if the licensee fails to initiate the programming within a 90-day period or fails to make the programming available to other television broadcast stations or through Internet streaming.

    Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

    About this bill and sources

    Official title: Local Television Service and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2018

    Latest action (Jul 18, 2018): Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

    Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications · Origin: House · Introduced: Jul 18, 2018

    Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

    No recorded floor vote found.