S.Amdt. 2567

SA 2567. Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Mr. Booker, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr.
Padilla, and Mr. Durbin) 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:

On page 2186, between lines 14 and 15, insert the
following:
(f) Aggregation Permitted.--Section 904(b) of division N of
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-
260), as amended by subsection (a) of this section, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
``(16) Aggregation permitted.--Not later than 90 days after
the date of enactment of this paragraph, the Commission shall
adopt rules providing that--
``(A) a unit of local government may pay a participating
provider on behalf of an eligible household for an internet
service offering, in lieu of the participating provider
applying a monthly discount to the amount charged to the
eligible household; and
``(B) the Commission will reimburse a unit of local
government for amounts paid to a participating provider as
described in subparagraph (A) in the same manner as the
Commission would have reimbursed the participating provider
for applying a monthly discount to the amount charged to the
eligible household, subject to the applicable maximum amount
of the affordable connectivity benefit under paragraph
(7).''.
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