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House Bill 6073
115th Congress(2017-2018)
RURAL Broadband Act of 2018
Introduced
Introduced
Introduced in House on Jun 12, 2018
Overview
Text
Introduced
Jun 12, 2018
Latest Action
Jun 12, 2018
Origin Chamber
House
Type
Bill
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Bill Number
6073
Congress
115
Policy Area
Science, Technology, Communications
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Sponsorship by Party
Republican
Kevin Cramer
North Dakota
Republican
Scott Tipton
Colorado
House Votes (0)
Senate Votes (0)
No House votes have been held for this bill.
Summary

Reprioritizing Unserved Rural Areas and Locations for Broadband Act of 2018 or the RURAL Broadband Act of 2018

This bill amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to allow financial assistance provided by the Rural Utilities Service for the deployment of broadband-capable infrastructure by a service provider to be used to provide retail fixed broadband service in an area where there is no qualifying broadband-capable infrastructure owned or operated by another service provider.

The term "qualifying broadband-capable infrastructure" means fixed broadband-capable infrastructure: (1) used by a service provider to provide fixed broadband service for which the provider receives universal service support funds, and (2) was financed with funds from the Department of Agriculture. 

Text (1)
Introduced in House
June 12, 2018
Related Bills (1)
May 24, 2018
Introduced in Senate
3
Sponsorship
Senate Bill 2970
RURAL Broadband Act of 2018
Introduced
Type
Identical Bill
Identical Bill
A bill that is word-for-word identical to another bill. Bills are characterized as identical to each other at the introduced stage only, even though a later (e.g., reported or passed) version of a bill might meet the same criteria for text similarity. Companion measures, procedurally-related measures, and legislation with text similarities are other related bill types.
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CRS
Actions (2)
06/12/2018
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.
06/12/2018
Introduced in House
Public Record
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