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.
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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
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Walberg (for himself and Mr. Peters) introduced the following …
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_commerce"
- → Secretary of Commerce
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information. The term covered agencies means— the Federal Communications Commission
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