3.0.0 3094 2022-10-28T01:46:15Z 2022-10-28T01:46:15Z Senate S 2019-12-18 116 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-12-18T20:59:52Z 2019-12-18 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2019-12-18 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR N Science, Technology, Communications Government information and archives Internet and video services Internet, web applications, social media Rural conditions and development Science, Technology, Communications 00 2019-12-18 Introduced in Senate 2020-01-22T17:18:35Z 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.

]]> Community Broadband Mapping Act Display Title Community Broadband Mapping Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Community Broadband Mapping Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 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. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s3094is/xml/BILLS-116s3094is.xml 2019-12-18 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.