Alert Message takes its meaning from an existing regulation
To require the Federal Communications Commission to issue an order providing that a shark attack is an event for which a wireless emergency alert may be transmitted, and for other purposes, section 2, Sec. 2.
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Alert Message takes its meaning from an existing regulation
The document says “means”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“In this section, the term "Alert Message" has the meaning given the term in section 10.10(a) of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor regulation.”
Subsection (a). For the purposes of this section only, Alert Message carries the meaning set out at 47 CFR 10.10(a), or in whatever regulation replaces it.
What the document actually says
“In this section, the term "Alert Message" has the meaning given the term in section 10.10(a) of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor regulation.”
That sentence, in plain words
The word alert here means what the rule book says it means. That rule book is a set of federal rules about alerts.
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Require the Federal Communications Commission to issue an order providing that a shark attack is an…, Public Law 119-100, sec. 2, 140 Stat. 845 (2026). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ100/html/PLAW-119publ100.htm
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“Alert Message takes its meaning from an existing regulation,” Require the Federal Communications Commission to issue an order providing that a shark attack is an…, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/pl-119-100/proposal/sec02-alert-message-definition/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).
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