The FCC has two open proceedings affecting wireless microphone operations. One proposes that entities using fewer than 50 microphones would not be able to register in a geolocation database which… Read more»
This is an important week for arts education in the Senate! The Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee is considering a draft bill (the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015)… Read more»
After a wait of nearly three years since a provision was signed into law that would protect musical instruments transported in-cabin, the FAA and DOT have issued final regulations that… Read more»
On Thursday, April 16, 2015, PAA held its Arts and Advocacy Community Conversation at the Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin, TX… Read more»
To strengthen its efforts in advocacy for international artistic cultural exchanges, PAA joined The Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange. Read more»
The Obama Administration released its budget request for FY 2016. It requested $148 million for the NEA, an increase of almost $2 million. Read more»
Today, the FCC voted to approve new net neutrality rules that will reclassify broadband as a utility under Title II of the Communications Act. Many of the 4 million public… Read more»
On Thursday, February 12, the House passed H.R. 644, the America Gives More Act of 2015, which would permanently reinstate a set of charitable giving incentives that includes the IRA… Read more»
Chairman Wheeler announced in Wired that his new proposal for open internet rules will classify broadband under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. Read more»
PAA participates in the Performing Arts Wireless Microphone Working Group which asked its member organizations to prepare comments to submit to the FCC urging the protection of wireless microphones used… Read more»