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Broadband MAPS Act

Bill: 117-hr-1044
Sponsor: Rep. Craig, Angie [D-MN-2]
Introduced: 2021-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Geography and mapping
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: 

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.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Broadband Resiliency and Flexible Investment Act

Bill: 117-hr-1045
Sponsor: Rep. Crenshaw, Dan [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2021-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Infrastructure development
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: 

Broadband Resiliency and Flexible Investment Act

 
This bill provides statutory authority for the 60-day time frame for a state or local government that receives a complete eligible facilities request or a complete telecommunications facilities request to approve such request. 
 
The bill makes other changes related to such requests, including 
 
 
expanding the definition of 
eligible facilities request
 to include any request for the modification of an existing wireless tower, base station, or eligible support structure that involves the placement, modification, or construction of equipment that improves the resiliency of the wireless tower, base station, or eligible support structure and provides a direct benefit to public safety; and
 
defining 
eligible telecommunications facilities request
 as any request for modification of an existing telecommunications service facility in or on an eligible support infrastructure that involves collocation, removal, or replacement of telecommunications service facility equipment.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Federal Broadband Deployment in Unserved Areas Act

Bill: 117-hr-1046
Sponsor: Rep. Curtis, John R. [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2021-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Geography and mapping
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Infrastructure development
Intergovernmental relations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: 

Federal Broadband Deployment in Unserved Areas Act

 
This bill establishes measures to facilitate the sharing of broadband availability data among federal agencies to support the deployment of broadband in unserved areas.
 
Specifically, the bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to share certain broadband availability data (i.e., broadband maps) with the federal agencies responsible for overseeing public land, including National Forest Service land.
 
The bill also establishes a working group to facilitate the preparation and interoperability of information technology systems for the provision and receipt of specified broadband information collected by the FCC.
 
Lastly, the bill requires a preliminary assessment of any potential barriers to such information sharing and a follow-up report assessing (1) the effectiveness of a user's ability to locate broadband infrastructure on public land, and (2) the prioritization of the review of applications for a communications use authorization in unserved areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2021-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
action_date: 2021-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Rural Broadband Permitting Efficiency Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-1047
Sponsor: Rep. Curtis, John R. [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2021-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Licensing and registrations
Rural conditions and development
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: 

Rural Broadband Permitting Efficiency Act of 2021

 
This bill authorizes federal departments to delegate federal environmental compliance for broadband projects to states and Indian tribes.
 
Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior to establish a voluntary program whereby states or Indian tribes may opt-in to an agreement allowing them to take on the responsibility of environmental review for the permitting of broadband projects.
 
Such projects must be located within an operational right-of-way (all real property interests acquired for the construction or operation of a project) on (1) national forest system land, (2) land managed by Interior, or (3) Indian lands.
 
 USDA and Interior shall also establish broadband permit streamlining teams to coordinate and expedite permitting decisions for broadband projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2021-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
action_date: 2021-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the transfer or release of individuals detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States.

Bill: 117-hr-1048
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, Jeff [R-SC-3]
Introduced: 2021-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Caribbean area
Cuba
Defense spending
Detention of persons
Latin America
Military facilities and property
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: 
This bill prohibits the Department of Defense (DOD) from using funds to transfer or release within the United States (including its territories or possessions) any detainee (1) who is not a U.S. citizen or member of the U.S. Armed Forces, and (2) who is or was held by DOD at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on or after January 20, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
To require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to establish an interagency strike force to increase prioritization by the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture by senior management of the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture, or an organizational unit of reviews for communications use authorizations.

Bill: 117-hr-1049
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, Jeff [R-SC-3]
Introduced: 2021-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Infrastructure development
Intergovernmental relations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: 

Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act

 
This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to establish an interagency strike force to increase specified agencies' prioritization of reviews for communications use authorizations on federal property. A 
communications use authorization
 is an easement, right-of-way, lease, license, or other authorization to locate or modify a communications facility on certain public land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2021-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
action_date: 2021-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Connecting Communities Post Disasters Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-1050
Sponsor: Rep. Dunn, Neal P. [R-FL-2]
Introduced: 2021-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Historic sites and heritage areas
Licensing and registrations
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: 

Connecting Communities Post Disasters Act of 2021
 
 
This bill exempts projects that replace or make improvements to communications facilities following a presidentially declared major disaster or emergency from certain environmental or historic preservation review requirements. 
 
Specifically, the bill exempts these projects from any requirement to prepare an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement. These projects are also exempt from considerations about the effect they will have on any historic property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
BROADBAND Leadership Act

Bill: 117-hr-1051
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2021-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal preemption
Government information and archives
Infrastructure development
Judicial review and appeals
Rural conditions and development
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: 

Barriers and Regulatory Obstacles Avoids Deployment of Broadband Access and Needs Deregulatory Leadership Act or the BROADBAND Leadership Act

 
This bill limits the authority of, and places deadlines on, a state or local government over decisions regarding the placement, construction, and modification of telecommunications service facilities.
 
Specifically, the bill requires that the regulation of the placement, construction, or modification of a telecommunications service facility by any state or local government shall not unreasonably discriminate among providers of functionally equivalent services. Further, any decision to deny a placement, construction, or modification request must be in writing and supported by substantial evidence in a written record.
 
Additionally, a state or local government must grant or deny a complete request for authorization to place, construct, or modify a telecommunications service facility within 90 days of receipt of the request or within 150 days of receipt of a request to take any other action relating to such facility.
 
A state or local government is authorized to charge a reasonable, objective, cost-based fee for (1) review of a request, or (2) use of a right-of-way or a facility in a right-of-way that is owned or managed by the state or local government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Grand Canyon Protection Act

Bill: 117-hr-1052
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2021-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Geography and mapping
Land use and conservation
Mining
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: 

Grand Canyon Protection Act

 
This bill withdraws 1,006,545 acres of federal lands in Arizona, including any land or interest in land acquired by the United States after enactment of this bill, from 
 
 
entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws; 
 
location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and 
 
operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws and mineral materials laws. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
TRUSTED Broadband Networks Act

Bill: 117-hr-1053
Sponsor: Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2021-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Historic sites and heritage areas
Homeland security
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: 

Timely Replacement Under Secure and Trusted for Early and Dependable Broadband Networks Act or the TRUSTED Broadband Networks Act 

 
This bill excludes from specified environmental and historic preservation reviews a project to permanently remove and replace communications equipment or services that the Federal Communications Commission has determined pose a threat to national security. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Victims’ Family Assistance Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-1054
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2021-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Crime victims
Education programs funding
Employee benefits and pensions
Government trust funds
Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: 

Teacher Victims' Family Assistance Act of 

2021

 
This bill establishes the Teacher Victims' Family Trust Fund, from which the Department of Education (ED) must provide financial assistance to certain family members of elementary and secondary school teachers and staff members who are killed by an act of violence while performing their school duties. The bill also increases from 11% to 13% the excise tax on shells and cartridges and provides the trust fund with funding equivalent to the revenues received from the tax increase.
 
Specifically, ED must provide victims' families with (1) funeral assistance; (2) a death benefit payment for the surviving spouse, dependent child, or other next of kin; (3) a monthly living allowance for the surviving spouse until death or remarriage or, if there is no surviving spouse, for each dependent child until age 18; and (4) undergraduate education assistance for each dependent child for five years.
 
Additionally, the bill excludes from a victim's income, for tax purposes, the amount of wages earned in the year of death. It also excludes victims' family assistance received under the bill from gross income for any taxable year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E135)
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act

Bill: 117-hr-1055
Sponsor: Rep. Hudson, Richard [R-NC-8]
Introduced: 2021-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Infrastructure development
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: 

Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act

 
This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to submit a report on tracking Form 299 requests. Form 299 is the application form for the right to install, construct, modify, or maintain a communications facility on federal real property.
 
Such report must include (1) a plan describing how the NTIA will track a Form 299 submitted by a requesting party, (2) a description of how the NTIA would most expeditiously implement such plan, (3) a way to increase transparency to a requesting party on the status of a Form 299, and (4) an assessment of barriers that could delay implementation of the plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-15
text: Introduced in House