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§334 Limitation on revision of equal employment opportunity regulations

Title 47 › Chapter CHAPTER 5— - WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RADIO › Part Part I— - General Provisions › § 334

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must not change the equal-employment rules or the reporting forms used by TV broadcast stations from how they were on September 1, 1992, except where this rule allows changes. The FCC must add a required midterm check of TV stations’ hiring practices and tell stations what recruiting fixes are needed. The FCC may also make only small technical or clerical updates to those rules to reflect new technology, words, or agency changes.

Full Legal Text

Title 47, §334

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(a)Except as specifically provided in this section, the Commission shall not revise—

(1)the regulations concerning equal employment opportunity as in effect on September 1, 1992 (47 C.F.R. 73.2080) as such regulations apply to television broadcast station licensees and permittees; or

(2)the forms used by such licensees and permittees to report pertinent employment data to the Commission.

(b)The Commission shall revise the regulations described in subsection (a) to require a midterm review of television broadcast station licensees’ employment practices and to require the Commission to inform such licensees of necessary improvements in recruitment practices identified as a consequence of such review.

(c)The Commission may revise the regulations described in subsection (a) to make nonsubstantive technical or clerical revisions in such regulations as necessary to reflect changes in technology, terminology, or Commission organization.

Legislative History

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective 60 days after Oct. 5, 1992, see section 28 of Pub. L. 102–385, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1992 Amendment note under section 325 of this title.

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Citation

47 U.S.C. § 334

Title 47 — Telegraphs, Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73