[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 911 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 911

To establish the sense of Congress that Congress should enact, and the 
  President should sign, bipartisan legislation to strengthen public 
             safety and to enhance wireless communications.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 9, 2011

    Mr. Rockefeller (for himself and Mrs. Hutchison) 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 establish the sense of Congress that Congress should enact, and the 
  President should sign, bipartisan legislation to strengthen public 
             safety and to enhance wireless communications.

    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 ``Strengthening Public-safety and 
Enhancing Communications Through Reform, Utilization, and Modernization 
Act'' or the ``SPECTRUM Act''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that Congress should enact, and the 
President should sign, bipartisan legislation to strengthen public 
safety and to enhance wireless communications by--
            (1) providing sufficient wireless spectrum and other 
        resources to build a nationwide interoperable wireless public 
        safety broadband network;
            (2) encouraging more efficient, flexible, and effective use 
        of spectrum, a valuable and finite public resource;
            (3) promoting voluntary market mechanisms to ensure the 
        optimal allocation of spectrum;
            (4) reforming the Federal Government's spectrum management 
        practices; and
            (5) engaging in advanced research and development into 
        emerging wireless technologies.
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