[History of Bills, Volume 155 (2009)]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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H.R. 2160--A bill to promote and encourage the valuable public
service, disaster relief, and emergency communications provided on
a volunteer basis by licensees of the Federal Communications
Commission in the Amateur Radio Service, by undertaking a study of
the uses of amateur radio for emergency and disaster relief
communications, by identifying unnecessary or unreasonable
impediments to the deployment of Amateur Radio emergency and
disaster relief communications, and by making recommendations for
relief of such unreasonable restrictions so as to expand the uses
of amateur radio communications in Homeland Security planning and
response; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
By Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas (for herself, Ms. Bordallo, Mr.
Luetkemeyer, Ms. Kilroy, Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California, and Mr.
Thompson of Mississippi), H4998 [29AP]
Cosponsors added, H5170 [5MY], H6077 [2JN], H7741 [7JY], H8009
[10JY], H8025 [13JY], H8410 [20JY], H8873 [27JY], H9442 [10SE],
H9738 [21SE], H10408 [30SE], H11111 [7OC], H11384 [14OC], H12288
[3NO], H12364 [4NO], H13267 [18NO]