[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3362 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3362

 To direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and 
  Information to publish data from the Broadband Equity, Access, and 
              Deployment Program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 16, 2023

    Ms. Clarke of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and 
  Information to publish data from the Broadband Equity, Access, and 
              Deployment Program, 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. PUBLICATION OF DATA FROM BROADBAND EQUITY, ACCESS, AND 
              DEPLOYMENT PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter until all amounts made 
available for the Program have been obligated by the Assistant 
Secretary, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Assistant Secretary shall make publicly available on the website of the 
National Telecommunications and Information Administration the data 
collected from grant recipients and subgrantees under the Program that 
is related to the diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility 
elements of the Program, including data relating to--
            (1) subgrantee ownership demographics and the demographics 
        of the workforce used for activities assisted with Program 
        funding; and
            (2) the number and amount of contracts and subcontracts 
        awarded under the Program to minority business enterprises and 
        to women's business enterprises.
    (b) Accessibility.--The data made publicly available under 
subsection (a) shall be--
            (1) made available as an open Government data asset (as 
        defined in section 3502 of title 44, United States Code);
            (2) freely available for download in bulk;
            (3) rendered in a human-readable format; and
            (4) accessible via application programming interface where 
        appropriate.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Assistant secretary.--The term ``Assistant Secretary'' 
        means the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications 
        and Information.
            (2) Program.--The term ``Program'' means the Broadband 
        Equity, Access, and Deployment Program established under 
        section 60102(b)(1) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 
        Act (47 U.S.C. 1702(b)(1)).
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