{"id":41736,"date":"2020-01-25T08:25:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T12:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=41736"},"modified":"2020-01-25T08:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T12:32:34","slug":"pirate-act-signed-into-law-by-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/pirate-act-signed-into-law-by-president\/","title":{"rendered":"PIRATE Act signed into law by President"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by David Everett Strickler on Unsplash<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: The White House<\/a>)<\/p>\n

On Friday, January 24, 2020, the President signed into law:<\/p>\n

H.R. 583, the \u201cPreventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement Act\u201d or the \u201cPIRATE Act,\u201d which authorizes enhanced penalties for pirate radio broadcasters and requires the Federal Communications Commission to increase enforcement activities; and<\/p>\n

H.R. 2476, the \u201cSecuring American Nonprofit Organizations Against Terrorism Act of 2019,\u201d which authorizes within the Department of Homeland Security a Nonprofit Security Grant Program to make grants to eligible nonprofit organizations for target hardening and other security enhancements to protect against terrorist attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: The White House) On Friday, January 24, 2020, the President signed into law: H.R. 583, the \u201cPreventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement Act\u201d or the \u201cPIRATE Act,\u201d which authorizes enhanced penalties for pirate radio broadcasters and requires the Federal Communications Commission to increase enforcement activities; and H.R. 2476, the \u201cSecuring American Nonprofit Organizations Against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,297],"tags":[4806,1583,7029,4092,8279],"class_list":["post-41736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","tag-fcc-anti-pirate-agenda","tag-fm-pirates","tag-pirate-act","tag-pirate-radio","tag-white-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aRa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33254,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/full-text-of-the-pirate-act-h-r-5709\/","url_meta":{"origin":41736,"position":0},"title":"Full text of the PIRATE Act (H.R.5709)","author":"Thomas","date":"July 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ulis (K3LU), who shares a link to the full text of the\u00a0H.R.5709 - PIRATE Act--a bill to\u00a0\"amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for enhanced penalties for pirate radio, and for other purposes.\" Here's an excerpt from the preface of the bill: SECTION\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "FM"","block_context":{"text":"FM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/fm\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Photo by Michael Maasen","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Soundboard-Mixer-Microphone-Pirate-Radio-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Soundboard-Mixer-Microphone-Pirate-Radio-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Soundboard-Mixer-Microphone-Pirate-Radio-2.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Soundboard-Mixer-Microphone-Pirate-Radio-2.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":41556,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/pirate-act-passes-senate\/","url_meta":{"origin":41736,"position":1},"title":"PIRATE Act passes Senate","author":"Thomas","date":"January 12, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio World via Marty) \"Opponents of illegal broadcasting scored a major and long-anticipated victory today: The Senate (finally) unanimously passed the\u00a0PIRATE Act\u00a0Wednesday. Short for \u201cPreventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement,\u201d only one hurdle remains for S.R. 1228: President Trump\u2019s desk. 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