HR2805-119

Introduced

To direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to develop a National Strategy to Close the Digital Divide, and for other purposes.

119th Congress Introduced Apr 9, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

The bill reduces a appropriation, grant, compliance mandate provision: 2. National Strategy to Close the Digital Divide, reduces a appropriation, reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 3. Implementation Plan, and expands a appropriation, compliance mandate, definition change provision: 4. Briefings and implementation. It relies on appropriations, compliance mandates, reporting requirements, and definition changes. The main policy areas are Transportation, Finance, Healthcare, and Technology.

Who Benefits and How

The available clause analysis does not identify a specific beneficiary group.

Who Bears the Burden and How

No clear private burden is identified from the available clause analysis; implementing agencies may still take on administrative work.

Key Provisions

  • Reduces a appropriation, grant, compliance mandate provision: 2. National Strategy to Close the Digital Divide.
  • Reduces a appropriation, reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 3. Implementation Plan.
  • Expands a appropriation, compliance mandate, definition change provision: 4. Briefings and implementation.
  • Expands a appropriation, reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 5.
  • Expands a appropriation, definition change provision: 6. Definitions In this Act: The term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; and...

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

The bill reduces a appropriation, grant, compliance mandate provision: 2. National Strategy to Close the Digital Divide, reduces a appropriation, reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 3. Implementation Plan, and expands a appropriation, compliance mandate, definition change provision: 4. Briefings and implementation.

Key Policy Areas

Transportation, Finance, Healthcare, Technology

Primary Purpose

The bill reduces a appropriation, grant, compliance mandate provision: 2. National Strategy to Close the Digital Divide, reduces a appropriation, reporting req, compliance mandate provision: 3. Implementation Plan, and expands a appropriation, compliance mandate, definition change provision: 4. Briefings and implementation.

Policy Domains

Transportation Finance Healthcare Technology

Legislative Progress

Introduced
Introduced Committee Passed
Apr 9, 2025

Mr. Walberg (for himself and Mr. Peters) introduced the following …

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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Transportation Finance Healthcare Technology
Actor Mappings
"the_commission"
→ The commission identified in the operative section
"secretary_of_commerce"
→ Secretary of Commerce

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"Assistant Secretary" §H1472855AC12841A58C9129798B561478

the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information. The term covered agencies means— the Federal Communications Commission

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