S.Amdt. 1183

SA 1183. Mr. WELCH (for himself and Mr. Marshall) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1092 submitted by
Mrs. Murray (for herself and Ms. Collins) and intended to be proposed
to the bill H.R. 4366, making appropriations for military construction,
the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 147, beginning on line 9, strike ``90 percent''
and all that follows through line 19 and insert ``75 percent
of the households to be served by a project receiving a loan
or grant under the pilot program shall be in a rural area
without sufficient access to broadband: Provided further,
That for purposes of such pilot program, a rural area without
sufficient access to broadband shall be defined as 100
megabits per second downstream and 20 megabits per second
upstream: Provided further, That to the extent possible,
projects receiving funds provided under the pilot program
must build out service to at least 100 megabits per second
downstream and 100''.
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