HR 1582 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Universal Service Fairness Act of 2003

Introduced Apr 3, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Lee Terry R-NE

Fact sheet

Latest action · Apr 10, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedApr 3, 2003
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Universal Service Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in calculating Federal universal service support for eligible telecommunications carriers that serve rural, insular, and high cost areas, to revise its support mechanism for high cost areas to provide support to each wire center in which the incumbent local exchange carrier's average cost per line for such center exceeds 3.75 times the national average cost per line. Requires the FCC to provide support for each State equal to the greater of the amount calculated under the FCC's current support mechanism for high cost areas or the amount calculated above. Limits per State support and total support for all States.

Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the need to reform the high cost support mechanism for rural, insular, and high cost areas.

States that nothing in this Act shall affect the support provided to rural telephone companies.

Cosponsors 83

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 3, 2003 to Sep 30, 2004, with 28 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-WYBarbara CubinOriginalApr 3, 2003
D-MIBart StupakOriginalApr 3, 2003
R-COBob BeauprezOriginalApr 3, 2003
D-ILBobby L. RushOriginalApr 3, 2003
R-IDC. L. (Butch) OtterOriginalApr 3, 2003
R-NHCharles F. BassOriginalApr 3, 2003
R-UTChris CannonOriginalApr 3, 2003
D-CODiana DeGetteOriginalApr 3, 2003
R-WADoc HastingsOriginalApr 3, 2003
R-NEDoug BereuterOriginalApr 3, 2003
D-NDEarl PomeroyOriginalApr 3, 2003
R-CAGeorge RadanovichOriginalApr 3, 2003
R-NMHeather WilsonOriginalApr 3, 2003
D-WAJay InsleeOriginalApr 3, 2003
R-TXJoe BartonOriginalApr 3, 2003
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Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Apr 10, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
  2. Apr 3, 2003Introduced in House
  3. Apr 3, 2003Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Subjects

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