[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 300 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 300

To enable the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information of 
the Department of Commerce to resume timely processing and distribution 
of TV converter box coupons by increasing its fiscal authority to make 
                   payments, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 22, 2009

   Mr. Gregg 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 enable the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information of 
the Department of Commerce to resume timely processing and distribution 
of TV converter box coupons by increasing its fiscal authority to make 
                   payments, and for other purposes.

    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 ``TV Converter Box Coupon Program 
Relief Act''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL AUTHORITY OF NTIA TO ISSUE TV CONVERTER BOX COUPONS.

    Section 3005 of the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety 
Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-171; 120 Stat. 23) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``(e) Authority To Access Additional Amounts From Digital 
Television Transition and Public Safety Fund.--Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law and in addition to any amounts permitted to be 
used by this section prior to the date of enactment of the TV Converter 
Box Coupon Program Relief Act, the Assistant Secretary may make 
payments of not to exceed $250,000,000 from the Digital Television 
Transition and Public Safety Fund--
            ``(1) to continue to carry out the digital-to-analog 
        converter box coupon program established under this section; 
        and
            ``(2) to cover administrative expenses of the program.''.
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