S.Amdt. 1212

SA 1212. Mr. BLUNT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 891 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mrs.
Murray, Mr. Brown, Mr. Peters, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Cantwell, Ms. Stabenow,
Mr. Tester, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Carper, Mr. Leahy, and Mr.
Sanders) to the bill H.R. 1319, to provide for reconciliation pursuant
to title II of S. Con. Res. 5; which was ordered to lie on the table;
as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ____. PROHIBITION ON OVERBUILDING BROADBAND NETWORKS.

No amounts made available under this Act or an amendment
made by this Act may be used to subsidize the construction of
infrastructure for, or provision of, fixed broadband service
in an area that has access to fixed broadband service that
qualifies as advanced telecommunications capability (as
defined in the 2020 Broadband Deployment Report adopted by
the Federal Communications Commission under section 706(b) of
the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (47 U.S.C. 1302(b))),
which shall be determined based on the new broadband maps
created under section 802(c) of the Communications Act of
1934 (47 U.S.C. 642(c)).
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