3.0.0 6526 2019-11-15T21:18:49Z 2019-11-15T21:18:49Z House H HR 2012-09-21 112 From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. LANDRY:H.R. 6526.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Clause 3 of section 8 of Article I of the Constitution[Page H6278]]]> hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing hsif16 Communications and Technology Subcommittee Referred to 2012-09-26T14:06:30Z Referred to 2012-09-21T13:01:42Z 2012-09-26 hsif16 Communications and Technology Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. Committee 2012-09-21 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee 2012-09-21 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2012-09-21 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress L000574 Rep. Landry, Jeffrey M. [R-LA-3] Jeffrey Landry R LA M. 3 N Science, Technology, Communications Administrative law and regulatory procedures Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies Congressional oversight Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Telecommunication rates and fees Telephone and wireless communication Science, Technology, Communications 00 2012-09-21 Introduced in House 2012-11-16T18:56:36Z Restore Effective Statistics to the Calculation of USF Expenditures Act of 2012 or the RESCUE Act of 2012 - Prohibits the Order of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the Matter of Connect America Fund and High-Cost Universal Service Support from having any force or effect after the enactment of this Act. (The FCC Order relates to Universal Service Fund [USF] expenditures and the adoption, on April 25, 2012, of a methodology for establishing benchmarks for capital and operating costs reimbursable to rate-of-return cost companies from high-cost loop support.)

Directs the FCC to report to Congress on alternatives to the methodology in such Order and to make such report available to the public on the FCC website.

Prohibits the FCC from adopting such an alternative methodology until a specified period after the report is submitted to Congress.

]]> RESCUE Act of 2012 Short Titles as Introduced RESCUE Act of 2012 Short Titles as Introduced Restore Effective Statistics to the Calculation of USF Expenditures Act of 2012 Display Title RESCUE Act of 2012 Official Title as Introduced To provide that an Order of the Federal Communications Commission adopting a methodology for establishing certain benchmarks for Universal Service Fund high-cost loop support shall have no force or effect and to require the Commission to prepare a report on alternatives to such methodology. Introduced in House 2012-09-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112hr6526ih/xml/BILLS-112hr6526ih.xml 2012-09-26 Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.