[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7157 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7157

 To require that radios used in the satellite digital radio service be 
        capable of receiving terrestrial digital radio signals.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 26, 2008

 Mr. Markey (for himself, Ms. Lee, Mr. Walden of Oregon, Mr. Gonzalez, 
 Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, and Mr. Souder) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require that radios used in the satellite digital radio service be 
        capable of receiving terrestrial digital radio signals.

    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 ``Radio All Digital Channel Receiver 
Act''.

SEC. 2. MANDATING TERRESTRIAL DIGITAL RADIO RECEIVERS.

    (a) Commission Authority.--Section 303 of the Communications Act of 
1934 (47 U.S.C. 303) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(z) Require that apparatus shipped in interstate commerce or 
manufactured in the United States that is designed to receive signals 
broadcast in both the satellite digital audio radio service and the 
terrestrial AM or FM radio broadcast service be equipped with 
technology that is capable of receiving and playing digital radio 
signals as transmitted by terrestrial AM or FM stations.''.
    (b) Prohibition.--Section 330 of such Act (47 U.S.C. 330) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
    ``(d)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), no person shall ship 
in interstate commerce or manufacture in the United States apparatus 
described in section 303(z) of this Act unless such apparatus complies 
with the rules prescribed by the Commission pursuant to the authority 
granted by that section.
    ``(2) This subsection shall not apply to carriers transporting 
apparatus referred to in paragraph (1) without trading in such 
apparatus.''.
    (c) Deadline for Commission Action.--The Federal Communications 
Commission shall take all actions necessary to prescribe rules pursuant 
to the amendments made by this section within 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act.
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