Art Botterell blogs :

"Yes, the WARN Act has cleared both the House and the Senate... but it sure isn't the WARN Act we were expecting.

The enrolled version of H.R.4954, the "Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006" aka the "SAFE Port Act," still includes as Title VI a section that says it may be cited as the "Warning, Alert and Response Network Act." But the actual heading of that section has been changed to "Commercial Mobile Service Alerts."

Gone is the proposed National Alert Office and its standards-based, multi-mode National Alert System; this bill is strictly about using cellphones for alerts. The role of public TV stations is merely "to enable the distribution of geographically targeted alerts by commercial mobile service providers." Other warning technologies and their integration aren't addressed at all."

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