[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1545 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1545

To require a quarterly report by the Federal Communications Commission 
     on the Lifeline program funded by the Universal Service Fund.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 10, 2015

  Mr. Vitter introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
To require a quarterly report by the Federal Communications Commission 
     on the Lifeline program funded by the Universal Service Fund.

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

SECTION 1. REPORT ON LIFELINE PROGRAM.

    (a) Definition.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``Lifeline program'' means the Lifeline 
        program of the Federal Communications Commission set forth 
        under subpart E of part 54 of title 47, Code of Federal 
        Regulations, or any successor thereto; and
            (2) the term ``participating carrier'' means an eligible 
        telecommunications carrier that receives universal service 
        support under sections 214(e) and 254 of the Communications Act 
        of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 214(e) and 254) for the provision of service 
        through the Lifeline program.
    (b) Report Required.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, and quarterly thereafter, the Federal 
Communications Commission shall submit to Congress a report on the 
Lifeline program that includes, with respect to the period covered by 
the report--
            (1) aggregate expenditures on the Lifeline program;
            (2) a list of each payment made to a participating carrier 
        for the provision of service through the Lifeline program, 
        including, in the case of a participating carrier that is 
        reimbursed for the provision of service to both wireless and 
        wireline subscribers, the amount of the payment that 
        corresponds to each type of service; and
            (3) the average cost per subscriber, across all the 
        participating carriers, to provide the service that the 
        Lifeline program subsidizes, broken down by wireless and 
        wireline subscribers and averaged per subscriber.
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