3.0.0 2970 2023-01-11T13:42:27Z 2023-01-11T13:42:27Z Senate S 2018-05-24 115 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2018-05-24T20:05:28Z RURAL Broadband Act of 2018 115 6073 HR 2018-06-12 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. Identical bill CRS 2018-05-24 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2018-05-24 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000618 Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] Steve Daines R MT N L000174 Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] Patrick Leahy D VT 2018-05-24 True M000934 Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS] Jerry Moran R KS 2018-06-12 False Science, Technology, Communications Internet and video services Internet, web applications, social media Rural conditions and development Science, Technology, Communications 00 2018-05-24 Introduced in Senate 2018-06-27T19:42:17Z Reprioritizing Unserved Rural Areas and Locations for Broadband Act of 2018 or the RURAL Broadband Act of 2018

This bill amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to allow financial assistance provided by the Rural Utilities Service for the deployment of broadband-capable infrastructure by a service provider to be used to provide retail fixed broadband service in an area where there is no qualifying broadband-capable infrastructure owned or operated by another service provider.

The term "qualifying broadband-capable infrastructure" means fixed broadband-capable infrastructure: (1) used by a service provider to provide fixed broadband service for which the provider receives universal service support funds, and (2) was financed with funds from the Department of Agriculture. 

]]> RURAL Broadband Act of 2018 Display Title RURAL Broadband Act of 2018 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to provide requirements on the use of assistance for broadband deployment, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced RURAL Broadband Act of 2018 Short Titles as Introduced Reprioritizing Unserved Rural Areas and Locations for Broadband Act of 2018 Introduced in Senate 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s2970is/xml/BILLS-115s2970is.xml 2018-05-24 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. 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.