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.
What this is about
Laws often borrow a word from a rule that is already written down. Here the law points to rules kept by the government. If those rules are replaced, the new ones count.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
The document says “shall”Who acts: Federal Communications CommissionHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall issue an order to provide that a shark attack is an event for which an Alert Message may be transmitted.”
Subsection (b). It sets a deadline of 180 days from enactment and directs the Federal Communications Commission to issue an order making a shark attack an event for which an Alert Message may be sent.
What the document actually says
“Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall issue an order to provide that a shark attack is an event for which an Alert Message may be transmitted.”
That sentence, in plain words
The FCC has 180 days to put out an order. The order must say a shark attack is one reason to send an alert.
What this is about
The FCC is the agency in charge of phones and radio. An alert is the message that buzzes on a phone. The clock starts the day the law is signed.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
Both things the section does: the term it defines for its own use, and the order it directs the Federal Communications Commission to issue within a set time.
Nothing in the section is left out. It runs to two subsections and both are recorded.
The section takes its definition from a regulation in title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations. That regulation is not indexed here, so a reader who wants the definition itself has to follow the citation out of this law. The section also does not say what the Commission's order must contain beyond the one provision named.
