[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2481 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2481

 To amend the Communications Act and the Miscellaneous Appropriations 
 Act, 2000, to require auction of 700 megahertz spectrum in compliance 
       with existing statutory deadlines and to give the Federal 
 Communications Commission discretion to set the auction date for all 
                 other spectrum auctions in the future.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 8, 2002

  Mr. Stevens introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Communications Act and the Miscellaneous Appropriations 
 Act, 2000, to require auction of 700 megahertz spectrum in compliance 
       with existing statutory deadlines and to give the Federal 
 Communications Commission discretion to set the auction date for all 
                 other spectrum auctions in the future.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Auction Completion Timing Act'' 
hereinafter referred to as the ``ACT NOW Act''.

SEC. 2. TIMING OF THE AUCTION OF SPECTRUM IN THE 747-762 MHZ AND 777-
              792 MHZ BANDS.

    (a) Sections 213(a)(3) through (a)(6) of H.R. 3425, the 
Miscellaneous Appropriations Act, 2000, as enacted by section 
1000(a)(5) of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000 (113 Stat. 
1501A-295), shall remain in effect through September 30, 2002.
    (b) Section 213(a)(3) is further amended by--
            (1) deleting ``September 30, 2000'' and inserting 
        ``September 30, 2002''; and
            (2) deleting ``described in paragraph (2)'' and inserting 
        ``with respect to the portion of the spectrum identified in 
        section 337(a)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
        337(a)(2))''.

SEC. 3. FUTURE SPECTRUM ACTION DEADLINES.

    The Communications Act of 1934 is amended by inserting a new 
paragraph (15) after section 309(j)(14), as follows:
            ``(15) Federal Communications Commission to determine 
        spectrum auction schedule. Except as otherwise provided in 
        section 2 of the ACT NOW Act, and in sections 309(j)(14)(C)(ii) 
        of the Communications Act of 1934 and 3007 of the Balanced 
        Budget Act of 1997 (iii Stat. 269), (i) notwithstanding any 
        other statutory deadline for conducting spectrum auctions, 
        collecting, depositing, or reporting auction revenues, 
        completing licensing processing processes, or (ii) other 
        provision of law, regulation, or policy to the contrary, the 
        Commission may determine the date of any auction conducted 
        pursuant to Section 309(j).''.
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