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H.R. 5806, The School Emergency Notification Deployment Act

  • This item is from the 110th Congress (2007-2008) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.

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H.R. 5806 would permit universal service support to schools under the Communications Act of 1934 to be used for enhanced emergency notification services.

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Status of the Legislation

Latest Major Action: 4/16/2008: Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.

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Gary Rawson

May 27, 2008, 12:46pm (report abuse)

I do not support this bill. I do not support taking more funding away from services used for teaching (e-rate eligible services) and giving it to something that does not appear to improve student safety. Emergency notification is primarily after the event has occured.

Mike

November 20, 2008, 11:34am (report abuse)

Thanks for the great post. Disclosure: I work for an emergency notification company. We strongly believe that emergency notification services DO in fact improve student safety, and there are documented cases where lives have been saved using the services. When it comes to student safety, we shoulad not hold back funding.

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