[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6473 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6473

   To amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to reauthorize the 
        Community Connect Grant Program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 21, 2023

Ms. Stansbury introduced the following bill; which was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to reauthorize the 
        Community Connect Grant 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community Connect Grant Program Act 
of 2023''.

SEC. 2. COMMUNITY CONNECT GRANT PROGRAM.

    Section 604 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 
950bb-3) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``less than the'' 
                and all that follows through the period at the end and 
                inserting the following: ``less than--
                    ``(A) a 100-Mbps downstream transmission capacity; 
                and
                    ``(B) a 20-Mbps upstream transmission capacity.''; 
                and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
                        (A), by striking ``an area'' and inserting ``a 
                        rural area'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``10-
                        Mbps'' and inserting ``25-Mbps''; and
                            (iii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``1-
                        Mbps'' and inserting ``3-Mbps'';
            (2) in subsection (d)(2)(A), by striking ``area; or'' and 
        inserting ``area (including any eligible broadband service that 
        will be provided in the future in the eligible service area 
        pursuant to enforceable commitments for network deployment 
        applicable under another broadband funding program); or''; and
            (3) in subsection (g), by striking ``2023'' and inserting 
        ``2028''.
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