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110TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5806 

To permit universal service support to schools under the Communications 

Act of 1934 to be used for enhanced emergency notification services. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 15, 2008 

Mr. RUSH (for himself and Mr. UPTON) introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To permit universal service support to schools under the 

Communications Act of 1934 to be used for enhanced 

emergency notification services. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘School Emergency No5 tification Deployment Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SUPPORT FOR ENHANCED EMERGENCY COMMU7 NICATIONS. 

8 (a) AMENDMENTS.—Section 254(h) of the Commu9 nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254) is amended— 

10 (1) in paragraph (2)— 


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1 (A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of sub2 paragraph (A); 

3 (B) by striking the period at the end of 

4 subparagraph (B) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

5 (C) by adding at the end the following new 

6 subparagraph: 

7 ‘‘(C) to permit universal service support to 

8 public and nonprofit elementary and secondary 

9 schools to be used for enhanced emergency noti10 fication services.’’; and 

11 (2) in paragraph (7)— 

12 (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (G), 

13 (H), and (I) as subparagraphs (H), (I), and 

14 (J), respectively; and 

15 (B) by inserting after subparagraph (F) 

16 the following new subparagraph: 

17 ‘‘(G) ENHANCED EMERGENCY NOTIFICA18 TION SERVICE.—The term ‘enhanced emergency 

19 notification service’ means a communications 

20 service or system that— 

21 ‘‘(i) meets or exceeds prevailing indus22 try practices, as periodically determined by 

23 the Commission; and 

24 ‘‘(ii) can be utilized by school admin25 istrators and other public officials to deVerDate Aug 31 2005 00:18 Apr 19, 2008 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H5806.IH H5806

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1 liver emergency messages to members of 

2 the school community (including students 

3 and their parents, faculty, and staff), and 

4 their designated emergency contacts, via 

5 messages carried over telecommunications 

6 and information services, including those 

7 transmitted by providers of commercial 

8 mobile service (as such term is defined in 

9 section 332(d)).’’. 

10 (b) IMPLEMENTATION.— 

11 (1) DEADLINE.—Within 180 days after the 

12 date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Commu13 nications Commission shall prescribe such changes 

14 to its rules, regulations, and orders as may be nec15 essary— 

16 (A) to implement the amendments made by 

17 subsection (a); and 

18 (B) allow universal service support pro19 vided to public and nonprofit elementary and 

20 secondary schools to be used for enhanced 

21 emergency notification services. 

22 (2) IMPLEMENTATION CONDITIONS.—In pre23 scribing such changes, the Commission shall— 

24 (A) ensure that such regulations do not re25 sult in any increase in the total amount of— 


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1 (i) support provided under section 

2 254(h) of the Communications Act of 1934 

3 (47 U.S.C. 254(h)); or 

4 (ii) the contributions collected to pro5 vide such support; 

6 (B) ensure that priority is given to schools 

7 that currently do not, on the date of enactment 

8 of this Act, have an emergency notification sys9 tem in place; and 

10 (C) shall create and institute performance 

11 measures with respect to support provided for 

12 enhanced emergency notification services to 

13 make sure the notification services are effective. 

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