[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2534 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2534

 Directing the National Science Foundation to develop a report on the 
 establishment of high-speed, large bandwidth capacity Internet access 
 for all public elementary and secondary schools and libraries in the 
                 United States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 15, 1999

 Mr. Larson (for himself, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Brown of California, 
 Mr. Costello, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Etheridge, Mr. Cook, Mr. Lampson, Mr. 
 Capuano, Mr. Wu, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Mr. Udall of Colorado, Mr. 
 Gejdenson, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Mr. Crowley, and 
  Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas) introduced the following bill; 
             which was referred to the Committee on Science

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                                 A BILL


 
 Directing the National Science Foundation to develop a report on the 
 establishment of high-speed, large bandwidth capacity Internet access 
 for all public elementary and secondary schools and libraries in the 
                 United States, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Science and Educational Networking 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT TO CONGRESS.

    Section 103 of the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 (15 
U.S.C. 5513) is amended by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and (d) 
as subsections (c), (d), and (e), respectively, and by inserting after 
subsection (a) the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Report to Congress.--
            ``(1) Requirement.--The Director of the National Science 
        Foundation shall submit to Congress, not later than December 
        31, 2001, a report that addresses the issues described in 
        paragraph (3) and includes a plan for implementation of the 
        recommendations made in the report.
            ``(2) Consultation.--In preparing the report under 
        paragraph (1), the Director of the National Science Foundation 
        shall consult with the National Aeronautics and Space 
        Administration, the National Institute of Standards and 
        Technology, and such other Federal agencies as the Director of 
        the National Science Foundation considers appropriate.
            ``(3) Issues.--The report shall--
                    ``(A) identify the most appropriate, effective, and 
                economical means of providing all public elementary and 
                secondary schools and libraries in the United States 
                with high-speed, large bandwidth capacity access to the 
                Internet, the ability to transmit and receive data, 
                voice, and other types of communication media, and 
                distance learning;
                    ``(B) as part of the goal described in subparagraph 
                (A), identify how high-speed, large bandwidth capacity 
                access to the Internet to such schools and libraries 
                can be effectively available at individual workstations 
                within each school and library;
                    ``(C) consider the effect that specific or regional 
                circumstances may have on the appropriateness of using 
                different methods and technologies to achieve the goals 
                described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) for different 
                schools or libraries; and
                    ``(D) include options and recommendations for 
                achieving the goals described in subparagraphs (A) and 
                (B), including a plan for necessary experimentation and 
                identification of critical paths.''.
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