DTV Hard Date Passes...Again

By a squeaker vote of 216 to 214, the House once again set a hard date for the DTV transition -- Feb. 18, 2009 -- and set aside funds -- $1.5 billion -- for digital-to-analog converter boxes. The provisions were part of the overall budget reconciliation bill that the House had already passed Dec. 19 212-206. The re-vote of the reconciliation bill was prompted by Senate Democrats, who had used a procedural gambit to delay the bill's passage and force the revote. The bill now goes to the White House for the president's signature. Details of how the converter box subsidy will be administered have yet to be worked out.
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* DTV Deadline: 2/17/09
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