Sec. 5. Emergency alert best practices
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Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall develop and issue guidance for State, Tribal, and local governments regarding policies and procedures relating to emergency alerts. The guidance developed under paragraph
(1)shall include best practices and recommendations for— the processes and procedures that a State, Tribal, or local government official should use to issue an alert that will use the Emergency Alert System or Wireless Emergency Alert System, including information about the technology used to issue such an alert; steps that a State, Tribal, or local government official should take to mitigate the possibility of the issuance of a false alert through the Emergency Alert System and related emergency alerting systems; the process that a State, Tribal, or local government official should adopt to retract a false alert in the case of the issuance of such an alert; the annual training of State, Tribal, and local alert origination staff related to the— issuance of alerts; avoidance of false alerts; and retracting of false alerts; and a plan by which participants in the Emergency Alert System and the Wireless Emergency Alert System and other relevant State, Tribal, and local government officials may, during an emergency, contact each other, as well as Federal officials, when appropriate and necessary, by telephone, text message, or other means of communication, regarding an alert that has been distributed to the public. Nothing in subsection
(a)shall be construed to amend, supplement, or abridge the authority of the Commission under the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) or in any other manner give the Administrator authority over communications service providers participating in the Emergency Alert System or the Wireless Emergency Alert System.
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