Bill Summary & Status for the 106th Congress

NEW SEARCH | HOME | HELP
H.R.4122
Sponsor: Rep Stupak, Bart(introduced 3/29/2000)
Related Bills: S.2307
Latest Major Action: 4/10/2000 Referred to House subcommittee
Title: To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to encourage broadband deployment to rural America, and for other purposes.
Jump to: Titles, Status, Committees, Related Bill Details, Amendments, Cosponsors, Summary
TITLE(S):  (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
STATUS: (color indicates Senate actions)
3/29/2000:
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
3/29/2000:
Referred to House Commerce
4/6/2000:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.
3/29/2000:
Referred to House Agriculture
4/10/2000:
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Resource Conservation and Credit.
COMMITTEE(S):
RELATED BILL DETAILS:  (additional related bills may be indentified in Status)

AMENDMENT(S):

***NONE***

COSPONSORS(5), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Minge, David - 5/9/2000 Rep Peterson, Collin C. - 6/15/2000
Rep Pomeroy, Earl - 3/29/2000 Rep Strickland, Ted - 3/30/2000
Rep Thompson, Mike - 3/30/2000

SUMMARY AS OF:
3/29/2000--Introduced.

Rural Broadband Enhancement Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission to initiate a proceeding to provide Federal universal service support for the deployment of broadband telecommunications service (high speed voice, data, graphic, and video telecommunications) to eligible rural communities ( non-metropolitan areas with no more than 20,000 inhabitants).

Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administrative Organization Act to direct the Rural Utilities Service of the Department of Agriculture to make loans or other credit extensions to eligible telecommunications carrier providers, or to companies that accept the obligations of such carriers, to finance the deployment of broadband service to eligible rural communities.

Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 through 2005.