A bill to amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to authorize the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service to make telecommunications grants for the collection of broadband infrastructure data by local governments, economic development or other community organizations, electric or telephone cooperatives, and small internet providers, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · December 18, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Community Broadband Mapping Act
This bill authorizes the Rural Utilities Service, an agency of the Department of Agriculture, to make grants to government or telecommunications entities that serve a rural area (with less than 25,000 population) to foster data collection about where broadband infrastructure is located and which homes have non-satellite broadband service.
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