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S.2307
Sponsor: Sen Dorgan, Byron L.(introduced 3/28/2000)
Related Bills: H.R.4122
Latest Major Action: 3/28/2000 Referred to Senate committee
Title: A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to encourage broadband deployment to rural America, and for other purposes.
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3/28/2000:
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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COSPONSORS(11), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Sen Baucus, Max - 3/28/2000 Sen Bingaman, Jeff - 4/6/2000
Sen Conrad, Kent - 5/4/2000 Sen Daschle, Thomas A. - 3/28/2000
Sen Harkin, Tom - 3/28/2000 Sen Johnson, Tim - 3/28/2000
Sen Kennedy, Edward M. - 9/8/2000 Sen Kerrey, J. Robert - 3/29/2000
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. - 6/22/2000 Sen Murray, Patty - 5/23/2000
Sen Wellstone, Paul D. - 4/6/2000

SUMMARY AS OF:
3/28/2000--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.