Rural America Digital Accessibility Act

To bridge the digital divide in rural areas.

8/3/2007--Introduced.
Rural America Digital Accessibility Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make grants or guarantee loans in order to facilitate the deployment by the private sector of broadband telecommunications networks and capabilities (including wireless and satellite services) to underserved rural areas. Limits to $100 million the total amount of such grants and loan guarantees.
Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to research the enhancement or facilitation of broadband telecommunications services in rural and other remote areas, as well as Internet access through such services. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a tax credit to holders of qualified technology bonds (bonds representing an investment in projects to expand such telecommunications services). Sets a national technology bond limitation of $100 million for each of FY 2007 through 2011, and zero thereafter (with an exception) to be allocated by the Secretary among the qualified projects designated each year. Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance for the establishment and support of regional centers for the commercial use of advanced technologies by small and medium-sized businesses.


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Sponsor

• Rep. John McHugh [R, NY-23]

Committees

• House Energy and Commerce
• 4 more
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Science and Technology
  • House Science and Technology
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.3428

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
August 03, 2007

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• Aug 24, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
• Aug 03, 2007: Referred to House Science and Technology
• Aug 03, 2007: Referred to House Ways and Means
• Aug 03, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
• Aug 03, 2007: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
• Aug 03, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Science and Technology, 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.
• Aug 03, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1738)
• Introduced on Aug 03, 2007.

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Related Issue Areas:

• Wireless communication
• Urban areas
• Urban affairs
• Television relay systems
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• Telephone
• Telecommunication policy
• Technology transfer
• Technology
• Technological innovations
• Tax returns
• Tax credits
• Subsidies
• Small business
• Science policy
• Rural economic development
• Rural affairs
• Research grants
• Public-private partnerships
• Laboratories
• Labor
• Job creation
• Investments
• Internet
• Interest
• Industry-university relations
• Industrial parks
• Income tax
• Higher education
• High technology
• Government securities
• Finance
• Federally-guaranteed loans
• Federal aid to research
• Executive departments
• Education
• Communication satellites
• Commercialization
• Cable television
• Business
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• Broadband
• Telecommunication

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February 29, 2008 U.S. GAO - B-316010, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 ...

In that case, the Consolidated Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2000 provided that “H.R. 3428 of the 106th Congress, as introduced on November 17, 1999 ” is “hereby enacted into law.”[2] Id. at 38. The unenacted bill that was ...

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October 28, 2007 Statement of Julie A. Hedlund Senior Analyst Information ...

Congressman John McHugh (R-NY) introduced the “Rural America Digital Accessibility Act.” This bill would provide grants and loans to broadband providers who deploy broadband to. underserved rural areas. H.R. 3428. 110th Cong. (2007).

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August 02, 2007 HR 3428, To bridge the digital divide in rural areas

HR 3428 would bridge the digital divide in rural areas....

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