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Rural Broadband Financial Flexibility Act

Introduced: November 14, 2019 Introduced by: Capito, Shelley Moore Republican · West Virginia See on congress.gov
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Rural Broadband Financial Flexibility Act

This bill allows the use of tax-exempt private activity bonds to finance qualified broadband projects. A qualified broadband project is any project that is designed solely to provide broadband service to one or more rural areas in which more than 50% of residential households do not have access to adequate broadband service. The bill also allows direct payments to issuers of broadband infrastructure bonds for 35% of the interest payable under such bonds.

What's happening now November 14, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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Hassan, Margaret Wood
New Hampshire · Nov 14, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2866: Rural Broadband Financial Flexibility Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2866/
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"S. 2866: Rural Broadband Financial Flexibility Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2866/.
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S. 2866, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2866/.
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