To express the sense of the Senate that the Attorney General should conduct a study on the need and cost to establish radio interoperability between law enforcement agencies, fire departments, and emergency medical services, and that Congress should authorize and appropriate $20,000,000 for grants to local governments to assist fire departments and emergency medical services agencies to establish radio interoperability.

1. Adds SEC. 308. RADIO INTEROPERABILITY FOR FIRST RESPONDERS on page 79, line 22

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   Inserted: SEC. 308. RADIO INTEROPERABILITY FOR FIRST RESPONDERS.

   Inserted: (a) Study.--It is the sense of the Senate that the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, should conduct a study of the need and cost to make the radio systems used by fire departments and emergency medical services agencies interoperable with those used by law enforcement to the extent that interoperability will not interfere with law enforcement operations. (b) Grant Program.--It is the sense of the Senate that Congress should authorize and appropriate $20,000,000 to establish a grant program through which the Attorney General would award grants to local governments to assist fire departments and emergency medical services agencies to establish radio interoperability.

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