Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the necessity to improve public awareness in the United States among older individuals and their families and caregivers about the impending Digital Television Transition through the establishment of a Federal interagency taskforce between the Federal Communications Commission, the Administration on Aging, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the outside advice of appropriate members of the aging network and industry groups.

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Expresses the sense of Congress that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) shall enter into a partnership with the Administration on Aging and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to create a comprehensive public education campaign for older individuals and aging support networks to ensure that older individuals receive uninterrupted television service during the transition to digital television and to mitigate related fraud targeting older individuals.

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  Introduced in House · EN · 1 May 2008

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