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§334 Limitation on Revision of Equal Employment Opportunity Regulations

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

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commission must not change the equal employment rules that applied to TV broadcast station licensees and permittees on September 1, 1992 (47 C.F.R. 73.2080), or the forms those stations use to report employment data, except where this law allows changes. The Commission must add a required midterm review of a station’s hiring practices and must tell a station what recruitment improvements are needed after that review. The Commission may also make only small technical or clerical edits to those rules to reflect changes in technology, wording, or its own organization.

Full Legal Text

Title 47, §334

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(a)Limitation
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)Midterm review
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)Authority to make technical revisions
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

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110