Senate Approves IPAWS Modernization Act
The Senate approved the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act (S-1180) Thursday by unanimous consent, getting praise from CTIA and NAB. “This bill takes important steps to expand our nation’s public warning system to ensure the largest number…
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of people are reached,” said Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., one of the bill authors. “The IPAWS Modernization Act of 2015 also ensures effective training and collaboration so that when an emergency hits, we are ready.” He urged the House to pass the legislation quickly. The legislation “would result in more families and businesses receiving lifesaving information quickly, and would ensure our government has the flexibility it needs to evolve with future changes in technology,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who also backs the bill. CTIA praised Johnson and McCaskill's “willingness to structure their bill in a way that preserves the successful Wireless Emergency Alert system that has been used to notify the public of imminent threats and Amber alerts more than 11,000 times since it went live in 2012,” CTIA Vice President-Government Affairs Jot Carpenter said.