Broadband MAPS Act
Bill: H.R.1044 | Sponsor: Rep. Craig, Angie (D-MN)
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Broadband - Measuring Availability and Aligning Policies Task Force Act or the Broadband MAPS Act
This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish a task force that oversees implementation and use of broadband availability maps.
Specifically, the task force must (1) oversee specified data collection and analysis, including creating and updating broadband availability maps; (2) identify relevant FCC actions and ensure they are informed by the maps; (3) provide cost estimates for maintaining the maps; and (4) provide necessary recommendations to ensure the FCC can produce sufficiently granular and accurate maps to determine areas that lack broadband internet access service.

To create a task force at the Federal Communications Commission to 
ensure the policy and funding decisions of the Commission are informed 
     by data collection and analysis required in title VIII of the 
          Communications Act of 1934, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Broadband - Measuring Availability 
and Aligning Policies Task Force Act'' or the ``Broadband MAPS Act''.

SEC. 2. BROADBAND MAAPS TASK FORCE.

    (a) Establishment.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this section, the Commission shall establish the Broadband 
MAAPS Task Force.
    (b) Chair.--The Commission shall designate a Chair of the Task 
Force.
    (c) Membership.--The members of the Task Force shall include 
designees selected by the Commission from bureaus and offices of the 
Commission.
    (d) Responsibilities.--The Task Force shall be responsible for the 
following:
            (1) Coordinate, monitor, and oversee the work of the 
        bureaus and offices to implement title VIII of the 
        Communications Act (47 U.S.C. 641 et seq.) and the Secure and 
        Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 (47 U.S.C. 1601 et 
        seq.), including creating and updating the broadband 
        availability maps.
            (2) Identify any ongoing and anticipated Commission action, 
        including any report, rulemaking, and funding program, such as 
        the Universal Service Fund programs, that should be informed by 
        the broadband availability maps.
            (3) Ensure that any relevant ongoing and anticipated 
        Commission action, including any report, rulemaking, and 
        funding program, such as the Universal Service Fund programs, 
        is informed by the broadband availability maps.
            (4) Not later than 18 months after the date of the 
        enactment of this section, provide the committees of 
        jurisdiction an estimate of the ongoing cost associated with 
        maintaining the broadband availability maps.
            (5) Provide any recommendation, if necessary, to the 
        committees of jurisdiction to ensure that the Commission can 
        produce accurate broadband availability maps with sufficient 
        granularity to allow the Commission to determine the areas in 
        the United States that lack broadband internet access service.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Broadband availability maps.--The term ``broadband 
        availability maps'' means the maps required under section 802 
        of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 642).
            (2) Broadband internet access service.--The term 
        ``broadband internet access service'' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 8.1(b) of title 47, Code of Federal 
        Regulations, or any successor regulation.
            (3) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Federal 
        Communications Commission.
            (4) Committees of jurisdiction.--The term ``committees of 
        jurisdiction'' means the Committee on Energy and Commerce of 
        the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, 
        Science, and Transportation of the Senate.
            (5) Task force.--The term ``Task Force'' means the 
        Broadband MAAPS Task Force established pursuant to subsection 
        (a).
            (6) Universal service fund program.--The term ``Universal 
        Service Fund program'' means any program authorized in section 
        254(h) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254(h)).
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