PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1992 AN ACT To authorize appropriations for public broadcasting, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE SECTION 1. [47 U.S.C. 609 nt] This Act may be cited as the "Public Telecommunications Act of 1992”. 1 * * * * [Sections 2 through 4 contained amendments to sections 391, 393, and 396 of the Communications Act of 1934.] SEC. 5. * * BOARD OF DIRECTORS * * * [Section 5(a) and (b) contained amendments to section 396(c) of the Communications Act of 1934 relating to number of members and terms of office of the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.] (c) [47 U.S.C. 396 nt] TRANSITION RULES.-(1) With respect to the three offices whose terms are prescribed by law to expire on March 26, 1992, the term for each such office immediately after that date shall expire on January 31, 1998. (2) With respect to the two offices whose terms are prescribed by law to expire on March 1, 1994, the term for each of such offices immediately after that date shall expire on January 31, 2000. (3) With respect to the five offices whose terms are prescribed by law to expire on March 26, 1996 (A) one such office, as selected by the President, shall be abolished on January 31, 1996; (B) the term immediately after March 26, 1996, for another such office, as designated by the President, shall expire on January 31, 2000; and (C) the term for each of the remaining three such offices immediately after March 26, 1996, shall expire on January 31, 2002. (4) As used in this subsection, the term "office" means an office as a member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 1Public Law 102-356, 106 Stat. 949, approved Aug. 26, 1992. |