C&T Subcommittee: Legislative Improvements to Public Safety Communications in the United States

Energy and Commerce: House Committee · December 17, 2025

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Call to order and opening procedural remarks

Announcement

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Chair calls the subcommittee to order and opens the hearing on public safety communications in the United States, noting bipartisan bills on the agenda and stating the hearing’s purpose: consider legislative steps to improve 911, wireless emergency alerts, and outage reporting.

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A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing examined bipartisan bills to modernize 911 systems, improve wireless emergency alerts, require outage reporting, and explore satellite delivery of alerts. Witnesses from APCO/ABCO, AST SpaceMobile, CTIA, and academic experts described technical gaps, funding needs and training shortfalls.

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