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Section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 gains a new subsection

To require the Federal Communications Commission to establish a vetting process for prospective applicants for high-cost universal service program funding, section 2, Sec. 2. Written by .

Section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 gains a new subsection

The document says “is amendedWho acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says

“Section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254) is amended by adding at the end the following:”

To require the Federal Communications Commission to establish a vetting process for prospective applicants for high-cost universal service program funding, Sec. 2

The operative instruction of the section. Everything else in section 2 is text placed at the end of section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934, codified at 47 U.S.C. 254, as a new subsection (m) headed Vetting of High-Cost Fund Recipients. This site indexes the words this Act inserts. It does not record what the rest of section 254 says, because that statute is not indexed here.

What the document actually says

“Section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254) is amended by adding at the end the following:”

To require the Federal Communications Commission to establish a vetting process for prospective applicants for high-cost universal service program funding, Sec. 2
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This law adds new words to the end of an old law. The old law is from 1934.

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Congress often changes an old law instead of writing a new one. It does that by adding text to it. The rest of this part is the text being added.

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