Promoting Rural Broadband Act of 2014

Promoting Rural Broadband Act of 2014 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), when prescribing regulations concerning the competitive bidding system under which electromagnetic spectrum licenses are auctioned to qualified bidders, to promote the expansion of spectrum-based services to exceptionally hard-to-serve populations in unserved and underserved geographic locations.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3916 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3916

  To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to promote the expansion of 
 spectrum-based services to exceptionally hard-to-serve populations in 
             unserved and underserved geographic locations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 16, 2014

  Mr. Kilmer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to promote the expansion of 
 spectrum-based services to exceptionally hard-to-serve populations in 
             unserved and underserved geographic locations.

    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 ``Promoting Rural Broadband Act of 
2014''.

SEC. 2. PROMOTION OF SPECTRUM-BASED SERVICES IN UNSERVED AND 
              UNDERSERVED LOCATIONS.

    Section 309(j)(4) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
309(j)(4)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (F), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(G) promote the expansion of spectrum-based 
                services to exceptionally hard-to-serve populations in 
                unserved and underserved geographic locations.''.
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