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H.R. 4229: Broadband DATA Act

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H.R. 4229: Broadband DATA Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-09-06 · Science, Technology, Communications · Latest: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 345.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-09-06 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 345. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Broadband DATA Act

Plain summary

Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability Act or the Broadband DATA Act This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to change the way broadband data is collected, verified, and reported. Specifically, the FCC must collect and disseminate granular broadband service availability data (broadband maps) from wired, fixed-wireless, satellite, and mobile broadband providers. To do this, the FCC is required to establish the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric (a dataset of geocoded information for all broadband service locations, atop which broadband maps are overlaid) as the vehicle for reporting broadband service availability data. Additionally, the FCC must put forth specified requirements for service availability data collected from broadband providers, and it must create a challenge process to enable the submission of independent data challenging the accuracy of FCC broadband maps. The Government Accountability Office must report on identified locations where fixed broadband can be installed to improve the quality and completeness of data sources for the fabric.

Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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What does this mean? (plain words)

Official text

Broadband DATA Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2] · 67 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 4229, Broadband DATA Act (2020-01-22)

Cosponsors on this site

Robert E. Latta (R-OH), Peter Welch (D-VT), Robert J. Wittman (R-VA), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Paul Tonko (D-NY), H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Jared F. Golden (D-ME), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Lauren Underwood (D-IL), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), Troy Balderson (R-OH), Austin Scott (R-GA), Robin L. Kelly (D-IL), Pete Stauber (R-MN), Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Rick W. Allen (R-GA), André Carson (D-IN), Jason Smith (R-MO), Tom Emmer (R-MN), Sam Graves (R-MO) and 7 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr4229 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116