Title: Broadband Speed Act
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Broadband Speed Act
This bill establishes a reporting requirement for all broadband internet service providers and a capacity requirement for providers that use federal funds to construct new broadband infrastructure.
Specifically, the bill requires an internet service provider to report the actual speed of the broadband it provides consumers, and it establishes a fine for any provider that has willfully or knowingly provided false data about the speed it is capable of offering. Additionally, the bill requires any new broadband infrastructure built using federal funds to provide service of at least 100 megabits per second.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3093 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3093

   To improve the collection of broadband speed data by the Federal 
Communications Commission in order to support the effective deployment 
of broadband services to all areas in the United States, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 18, 2019

  Mr. Merkley introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
   To improve the collection of broadband speed data by the Federal 
Communications Commission in order to support the effective deployment 
of broadband services to all areas in the United States, 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 Speed Act''.

SEC. 2. BROADBAND SPEED TEST.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Broadband internet access service.--The term 
        ``broadband internet access service''--
                    (A) means a mass-market retail service by wire or 
                radio that provides the capability to transmit data to 
                and receive data from all or substantially all internet 
                endpoints, including any capabilities that are 
                incidental to and enable the operation of the 
                communications service;
                    (B) includes any service that the Commission finds 
                to be providing a functional equivalent of the service 
                described in subparagraph (A); and
                    (C) does not include dial-up internet service.
            (2) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Federal 
        Communications Commission.
    (b) Regulations Required.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall issue a rule that--
            (1) establishes an annual reporting requirement under which 
        each provider of broadband internet access service shall submit 
        to the Commission a report on broadband speed data based on a 
        reasonable sample that is captured to demonstrate that the 
        provider is capable of performing at the speed reported to the 
        Commission on Form 477 or any successor report;
            (2) establishes a fine for any provider that is found under 
        paragraph (1) to have willfully or knowingly provided false 
        data about the speeds offered; and
            (3) to minimize duplication, incorporates any other 
        requirements issued by the Commission relating to reporting on 
        broadband speed data.
    (c) Broadband Speed Requirement for Infrastructure Funding.--Any 
broadband infrastructure that is built with funding awarded on or after 
the date of enactment of this Act from the Federal universal service 
support programs established under section 254 of the Communications 
Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254) shall provide broadband internet access 
service with a download speed of not less than 100 megabits per second.
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