PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United States · Bill · HR

H.R. 5696 (110th)

To make a technical correction to section 3009 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.

referredUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

3 April 2008

Last action

Status

Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.

Sponsors

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

7 April 2025

Summary

Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 to extend through FY2012 the requirement for the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information of the Department of Commerce to make payments from the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Fund to implement a program to reimburse each licensee of an eligible low-power television station for equipment to upgrade low-power television stations from analog to digital in eligible rural communities. Requires such reimbursements to be issued to eligible stations on or after February 18, 2009 (currently, no earlier than FY2010).

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

3 official files

Introduced in House (text)

View fileDownload file

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.