Warning, Alert, and Response Network Act

Bill: 109-hr-6351
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Broadband
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal Communications Commission
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Liability (Law)
Licenses
Research and development
Research grants
Standards
Technological innovations
Television broadcasting
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Warning, Alert, and Response Network Act - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to: (1) adopt technical requirements for commercial mobile service alerts; and (2) establish a Commercial Mobile Service Alert Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the FCC for assisting commercial mobile service providers in providing emergency alerts to their subscribers.

Requires the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology to establish a research, development, testing, and evaluation program to support the development of technologies to increase the number of commercial mobile service devices that can receive emergency alerts. 

Requires the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere to establish a grant program to provide for outdoor alerting technologies in remote communities to enable residents of such communities to receive emergency alerts. 

Provides for additional funding for commercial mobile service alerts from the Digital Transition and Public Safety Fund. 

Authorizes the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to borrow up to $106 million from the Treasury to implement mobile alert programs under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House