Title 47 — Telecommunications
Part I · Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication
§ 334. Limitation on revision of equal employment opportunity regulations
Statutory text
Limitation
Except as specifically provided in this section, the Commission shall not revise—
the regulations concerning equal employment opportunity as in effect on (47 C.F.R. 73.2080) as such regulations apply to television broadcast station licensees and permittees; or
the forms used by such licensees and permittees to report pertinent employment data to the Commission.
Midterm review
The Commission shall revise the regulations described in subsection (a) to require a midterm review of television broadcast station licensees’ employment practices and to require the Commission to inform such licensees of necessary improvements in recruitment practices identified as a consequence of such review.
Authority to make technical revisions
The Commission may revise the regulations described in subsection (a) to make nonsubstantive technical or clerical revisions in such regulations as necessary to reflect changes in technology, terminology, or Commission organization.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992
Pub. L. 102–385 § 22(f) · 106 Stat. 1460
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 334
(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 334, as added Pub. L. 102–385, § 22(f), Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1499.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 334, as added Pub. L. 102–385, § 22(f), Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1499.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(f) Broadcasting Equal Employment Opportunity.— Part I of title III of the Communications Act of 1934 is amended by inserting after section 333 (47 U.S.C. 333) the following new section: “SEC. 334. LIMITATION ON REVISION OF EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY REGULATIONS. “(a) Limitation.— Except as specifically provided in this section, the Commission shall not revise— “(1) the regulations concerning equal employment opportunity as in effect on September 1, 1992 (47 C.F.R. 73.2080) as such regulations apply to television broadcast station licensees and permittees; or “(2) the forms used by such licensees and permittees to report pertinent employment data to the Commission. “(b) Midterm review.— The Commission shall revise the regulations described in subsection (a) to require a midterm review of television broadcast station licensees’ employment practices and to require the Commission to inform such licensees of necessary improvements in recruitment practices identified as a consequence of such review. “(c) Authority To Make Technical Revisions.— The Commission may revise the regulations described in subsection (a) to make nonsubstantive technical or clerical revisions in such regulations as necessary to reflect changes in technology, terminology, or Commission organization.”.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective 60 days after , see section 28 of Pub. L. 102–385, set out as an Effective Date of 1992 Amendment note under section 325 of this title.
Credits
(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 334, as added Pub. L. 102–385, § 22(f), , 106 Stat. 1499.)