Congress 107 - HR 2847 - Rural America Technology Enhancement Act of 2001

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Apprenticeship Business income tax Cable television Commerce Computer literacy Cooperative societies Data banks Department of Agriculture Direct broadcast satellites Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Employee training Employment tax credits Evaluation research (Social action programs) Executive reorganization Families Federal aid to higher education Federal aid to Indians Federal aid to rural areas Finance and Financial Sector Government lending Government Operations and Politics Government publicity High technology Higher education Housing and Community Development Income tax Information technology Interest rates Internet Investment tax credit Job hunting Labor and Employment Minorities Native Americans Nonprofit organizations Rural economic development Scholarships Science, Technology, Communications Social Welfare Space activities Surety and fidelity Tax-exempt organizations Taxation Technical education Telecommunication industry Telecommunication rates Telecommunication systems Telecommuting Telephone Television relay systems Wages Wireless communication Youth employment

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Rural America Technology Enhancement Act of 2001 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Administrator of the Rural Utility Service, to: (1) establish a National Centers for Distance Working Program to provide grants to eligible organizations for the Federal share of the cost of establishing National Centers for Distance Working in rural areas (and Indian reservations) to conduct five-year projects to support the use of teleworking in information technology fields; and (2) make grants for studies on teleworking in rural areas.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the rural telecommunications facilities investment tax credit.

Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission to initiate a proceeding to provide Federal universal service support for the deployment of broadband telecommunications service to eligible rural communities.

Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administrative Organization Act to direct the Rural Utilities Service of the Department of Agriculture to make loans or other credit extensions to eligible telecommunications carrier providers, or to companies that accept the obligations of such carriers, to finance the deployment of broadband service to eligible rural communities.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an Office of Rural Technology to act as an information center about programs that offer technology assistance to entities in rural areas.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create a rural high tech employment tax credit.

Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to support the expansion of opportunities in rural areas for instruction in high technology fields and enterprises.

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Dec 3, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
Sep 17, 2001

Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Sep 17, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
Sep 17, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
Sep 6, 2001

Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sep 6, 2001

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5445)
Sep 6, 2001

Introduced in House

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