[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 137 (Monday, August 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S5576]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2152. Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself and Ms. Klobuchar) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr. 
Schumer (for Ms. Sinema (for herself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. 
Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Collins, Mr. Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. 
Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the bill H.R. 3684, to authorize funds for 
Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, 
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

        At the end of division F, add the following:

     TITLE VI--STATE FUNDING UNDER RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE PROGRAMS

     SEC. 60601. STATE FUNDING UNDER RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE 
                   PROGRAMS.

       (a) Eligibility of Projects That Receive State Funding.--
     Title VII of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 
     950cc et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

     ``SEC. 704. ELIGIBILITY OF PROJECTS THAT RECEIVE STATE 
                   FUNDING.

       ``In administering any broadband or telecommunications 
     program, the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of 
     the Rural Utilities Service, shall not determine that a 
     project is ineligible for funding because the project has 
     received funding from a State.''.
       (b) State Funds to Satisfy Matching Requirements.--For 
     purposes of any matching funds requirement under any program 
     administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through 
     the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service, an 
     applicant for funding under that program may use funds 
     received from a State program (including funds received by a 
     State from the Federal Government) to satisfy the matching 
     funds requirement.
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