[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 139 (Wednesday, August 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S5882]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2567. Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Mr. Booker, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. 
Padilla, and Mr. Durbin) 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:

        On page 2186, between lines 14 and 15, insert the 
     following:
       (f) Aggregation Permitted.--Section 904(b) of division N of 
     the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-
     260), as amended by subsection (a) of this section, is 
     amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(16) Aggregation permitted.--Not later than 90 days after 
     the date of enactment of this paragraph, the Commission shall 
     adopt rules providing that--
       ``(A) a unit of local government may pay a participating 
     provider on behalf of an eligible household for an internet 
     service offering, in lieu of the participating provider 
     applying a monthly discount to the amount charged to the 
     eligible household; and
       ``(B) the Commission will reimburse a unit of local 
     government for amounts paid to a participating provider as 
     described in subparagraph (A) in the same manner as the 
     Commission would have reimbursed the participating provider 
     for applying a monthly discount to the amount charged to the 
     eligible household, subject to the applicable maximum amount 
     of the affordable connectivity benefit under paragraph 
     (7).''.
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