[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 137 (Monday, August 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S5677]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2282. Mr. DAINES 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 appropriate place in division F, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. ___. REPORTS.

       The ACCESS BROADBAND Act (section 903 of division FF of 
     Public Law 116-260) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (c)(2), by striking subparagraph (C);
       (2) by redesignating subsections (g) and (h) as subsections 
     (h) and (i), respectively; and
       (3) by inserting after subsection (f) the following:
       ``(g) Reports.--
       ``(1) Office reports.--
       ``(A) Annual report on tracking of federal dollars.--Not 
     later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, 
     and annually thereafter, the Office shall make public on the 
     website of the Office and submit to the Committee on 
     Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the 
     Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
     Representatives a report on the following, with respect to 
     the year covered by the report:
       ``(i) The number of households, businesses, and other 
     institutions in the United States that received broadband as 
     the result of Federal broadband support programs and the 
     Universal Service Fund Programs.
       ``(ii) A description of how many households, businesses, 
     and other institutions in the United States were provided 
     broadband by which universal service mechanism or which 
     Federal broadband support program.
       ``(B) Retrospective report.--Not later than 1 year after 
     the date of enactment of this Act, the Office shall submit to 
     the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the 
     Senate, the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
     Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the United 
     States a report that--
       ``(i) details, for fiscal years 2011 through 2021, the 
     total amount of support provided under Federal broadband 
     support programs and the Universal Service Fund programs, 
     which shall include specificity regarding--

       ``(I) for that period, how much support has been provided 
     under each Federal broadband support program and each 
     Universal Service Fund Program; and
       ``(II) the program standards with respect to each Federal 
     broadband support program and each Universal Service Fund 
     Program; and

       ``(ii) with respect to the copy of the report submitted to 
     the Comptroller General of the United States, in order to 
     facilitate the report required under paragraph (2), includes 
     an appendix containing detailed information for, during the 
     period described in clause (i), each award, grant, project, 
     loan, or other funding mechanism under each Federal broadband 
     support program and each Universal Service Fund Program.
       ``(2) GAO report.--Not later than 18 months after the date 
     on which the Office submits the report required under 
     paragraph (1)(B), the Comptroller General of the United 
     States shall, to the extent possible in consideration of the 
     information made available by the Office under paragraph (1) 
     (and by other Federal agencies with respect to other reports 
     required to be submitted or published by the Comptroller 
     General), submit to Congress a report that examines all 
     Federal broadband support programs and Universal Service Fund 
     Programs, which shall address the following:
       ``(A) The direct impact that funding Federal broadband 
     support programs and Universal Service Fund Programs has had 
     on increases in broadband access.
       ``(B) The relationship between--
       ``(i) the amount of funding made available to Federal 
     broadband support programs and Universal Service Fund 
     Programs; and
       ``(ii) the increase in the number of residences, 
     businesses, and other institutions in the United States that 
     have access to broadband.
       ``(C) With respect to support provided under Federal 
     broadband support programs and Universal Service Fund 
     Programs during the period described in paragraph (1)(B), the 
     amount of that support that was used to upgrade existing 
     broadband service, as compared to the amount of that support 
     that was used to provide new broadband service.
       ``(D) The extent to which support is distributed under 
     Federal broadband support programs and Universal Service Fund 
     Programs in rural areas and urban areas, as those terms are 
     defined by the Department of Agriculture.
       ``(E) The extent to which any support provided under any 
     Federal broadband support program or Universal Service Fund 
     Program has been used to overbuild an area that--
       ``(i) already has access to broadband; or
       ``(ii) has received support for broadband deployment under 
     another Federal broadband support program or Universal 
     Service Fund Program.''.
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