S.Amdt. 2282

SA 2282. Mr. DAINES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for Ms. Sinema (for herself,
Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Collins, Mr.
Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the bill H.R.
3684, to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety
programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in division F, insert the
following:

SEC. ___. REPORTS.

The ACCESS BROADBAND Act (section 903 of division FF of
Public Law 116-260) is amended--
(1) in subsection (c)(2), by striking subparagraph (C);
(2) by redesignating subsections (g) and (h) as subsections
(h) and (i), respectively; and
(3) by inserting after subsection (f) the following:
``(g) Reports.--
``(1) Office reports.--
``(A) Annual report on tracking of federal dollars.--Not
later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act,
and annually thereafter, the Office shall make public on the
website of the Office and submit to the Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the
Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of
Representatives a report on the following, with respect to
the year covered by the report:
``(i) The number of households, businesses, and other
institutions in the United States that received broadband as
the result of Federal broadband support programs and the
Universal Service Fund Programs.
``(ii) A description of how many households, businesses,
and other institutions in the United States were provided
broadband by which universal service mechanism or which
Federal broadband support program.
``(B) Retrospective report.--Not later than 1 year after
the date of enactment of this Act, the Office shall submit to
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the
Senate, the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of
Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the United
States a report that--
``(i) details, for fiscal years 2011 through 2021, the
total amount of support provided under Federal broadband
support programs and the Universal Service Fund programs,
which shall include specificity regarding--

``(I) for that period, how much support has been provided
under each Federal broadband support program and each
Universal Service Fund Program; and
``(II) the program standards with respect to each Federal
broadband support program and each Universal Service Fund
Program; and

``(ii) with respect to the copy of the report submitted to
the Comptroller General of the United States, in order to
facilitate the report required under paragraph (2), includes
an appendix containing detailed information for, during the
period described in clause (i), each award, grant, project,
loan, or other funding mechanism under each Federal broadband
support program and each Universal Service Fund Program.
``(2) GAO report.--Not later than 18 months after the date
on which the Office submits the report required under
paragraph (1)(B), the Comptroller General of the United
States shall, to the extent possible in consideration of the
information made available by the Office under paragraph (1)
(and by other Federal agencies with respect to other reports
required to be submitted or published by the Comptroller
General), submit to Congress a report that examines all
Federal broadband support programs and Universal Service Fund
Programs, which shall address the following:
``(A) The direct impact that funding Federal broadband
support programs and Universal Service Fund Programs has had
on increases in broadband access.
``(B) The relationship between--
``(i) the amount of funding made available to Federal
broadband support programs and Universal Service Fund
Programs; and
``(ii) the increase in the number of residences,
businesses, and other institutions in the United States that
have access to broadband.
``(C) With respect to support provided under Federal
broadband support programs and Universal Service Fund
Programs during the period described in paragraph (1)(B), the
amount of that support that was used to upgrade existing
broadband service, as compared to the amount of that support
that was used to provide new broadband service.
``(D) The extent to which support is distributed under
Federal broadband support programs and Universal Service Fund
Programs in rural areas and urban areas, as those terms are
defined by the Department of Agriculture.
``(E) The extent to which any support provided under any
Federal broadband support program or Universal Service Fund
Program has been used to overbuild an area that--
``(i) already has access to broadband; or
``(ii) has received support for broadband deployment under
another Federal broadband support program or Universal
Service Fund Program.''.
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