SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Wireless Microphone 
Users Interference Protection Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY FOR PART 74 LICENSES. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall 
take such actions as are necessary to expand eligibility for 
licenses under section 74.832 of title 47, Code of Federal 
Regulations, to the owners of, and operators of events and 
performances at, the following sites: 
(1) Amusement parks. 
(2) Arenas. 
(3) Convention centers. 
(4) Educational facilities. 
(5) Houses of worship. 
(6) Lodging facilities. 
(7) Museums. 
(8) Outdoor venues. 
(9) Recording studios. 
(10) Theaters. 
SEC. 3. EXPANDING SCOPE OF SERVICE RULE. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall 
expand the scope of service and permissible transmissions 
currently set forth in section 74.831 of title 47, Code of 
Federal Regulations, to include the use of wireless micro-
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phones in rehearsals and live or recorded events and per-
formances by the persons and entities made eligible for 
licenses pursuant to section 2 of this Act. 
SEC. 4. SAFE HAVEN CHANNELS. 
The Federal Communications Commission shall es-
tablish 2 safe haven channels for exclusive use by wireless 
microphone users that are each 6 MHz in the spectrum 
ranging from 470 MHz to 698 MHz, inclusive, other than 
frequencies identified as guard bands and the mid-band 
gap between the frequencies designated for uplink and 
downlink service in auctioned 600 MHz spectrum. 
SEC. 5. ACCESS TO TV BANDS DATABASES. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Federal Communications 
Commission shall authorize the owners and operators of 
wireless microphones (and their appointed technical rep-
resentatives) to have access to the TV bands databases 
described in subpart H of part 15 of title 47, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations, for the purpose of protecting wireless 
microphone operations from interference. 
(b) REGISTRATION SITES.—Sites that may be reg-
istered in the TV bands databases as sites where wireless 
microphone operations shall be protected pursuant to sub-
section (a) include the following: 
(1) Amusement parks. 
(2) Arenas. 
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(3) Convention centers. 
(4) Educational facilities. 
(5) Houses of worship. 
(6) Lodging facilities. 
(7) Museums. 
(8) Outdoor venues. 
(9) Recording studios. 
(10) Restaurants. 
(11) Theaters. 
SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act, the following definitions 
apply: 
(1) AMUSEMENT PARK.—The term ‘‘amusement 
park’’ means a commercially operated park equipped 
with various recreational devices, entertainment, and 
typically booths for games and the sale of food and 
drink. 
(2) ARENA.—The term ‘‘arena’’ means any 
building or structure primarily used for an athletic 
contest, sporting event, or musical performance, 
such as a stadium or racetrack. 
(3) CONVENTION CENTER.—The term ‘‘conven-
tion center’’ means any civic building or group of 
buildings designed for events, such as conventions, 
industrial shows, and exhibitions, and which often 
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includes an auditorium, a conference or meeting 
room, hotel accommodations, a restaurant, or other 
facilities. 
(4) EDUCATIONAL FACILITY.—The term ‘‘edu-
cational facility’’ means any building, place, or insti-
tution where instruction to students is provided, in-
cluding any daycare center, nursery school, public or 
private school, college or university, career or tech-
nical education school, or corporate training center. 
(5) HOUSE OF WORSHIP.—The term ‘‘house of 
worship’’ means any building, place, or institution 
devoted to religious worship, including a church, 
synagogue, temple, mosque, or chapel. 
(6) LODGING FACILITY.—The term ‘‘lodging fa-
cility’’ means any individual hotel, motel, or inn that 
makes accommodation available on a temporary 
basis for a charge. 
(7) MUSEUM.—The term ‘‘museum’’ means a 
building, place, or institution devoted to the procure-
ment, care, study, and display of works of art, sci-
entific specimens, and other objects of lasting inter-
est or value. 
(8) OUTDOOR
VENUE.—The term ‘‘outdoor 
venue’’ means any outdoor place or area where a 
fair, concert, sporting event, circus, festival, exhi-
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bition, or civic ceremony or presentation is held, 
such as a fairground, golf course, or pavilion. Such 
term includes a place or area that is partially en-
closed. 
(9) RECORDING STUDIO.—The term ‘‘recording 
studio’’ means any facility used primarily for the 
commercial production or recording of live or 
prerecorded music, television, motion picture, or 
other kind of news, sports, entertainment, edu-
cational, or religious programming. 
(10) RESTAURANT.—The term ‘‘restaurant’’ 
means an establishment where meals may be pur-
chased and consumed. 
(11) THEATER.—The term ‘‘theater’’ means 
any place, building, enclosure, or structure with a 
seating capacity that is used for a dramatic perform-
ance, stage entertainment, musical performance, or 
motion picture show. 
(12) 
WIRELESS
MICROPHONE.—The 
term 
‘‘wireless microphone’’ means a low power auxiliary 
station, as defined in subpart H of part 74 of title 
47, Code of Federal Regulations, as of the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
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