HR 4227 · 118th Congress 2023–2025, ended

ReConnecting Rural America Act of 2023

Introduced Jun 20, 2023 Originated House Sponsor Zachary Nunn R-IA

Latest action · Aug 21, 2023 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJun 20, 2023
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Cosponsors 32

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 20, 2023 to Dec 16, 2024; 14 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-MN	Angie Craig	Original	Jun 20, 2023
R-IL	Darin LaHood	Original	Jun 20, 2023
R-CA	David G. Valadao	Original	Jun 20, 2023
D-MD	David J. Trone	Original	Jun 20, 2023
D-WA	Derek Kilmer	Original	Jun 20, 2023
D-NC	Donald G. Davis	Original	Jun 20, 2023
D-MI	Elissa Slotkin	Original	Jun 20, 2023
D-IL	Eric Sorensen	Original	Jun 20, 2023
D-CA	Jim Costa	Original	Jun 20, 2023
R-MI	John R. Moolenaar	Original	Jun 20, 2023
R-NY	Marcus J. Molinaro	Original	Jun 20, 2023
R-IL	Mike Bost	Original	Jun 20, 2023
D-IL	Nikki Budzinski	Original	Jun 20, 2023
D-CO	Yadira Caraveo	Original	Jun 20, 2023
R-CA	John S. Duarte		Jul 6, 2023
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Jul 6, 2023
R-MN	Brad Finstad		Jul 10, 2023
R-IA	Mariannette Miller-Meeks		Jul 11, 2023
R-IN	James R. Baird		Jul 20, 2023
D-IL	Jonathan L. Jackson		Jul 24, 2023
D-TX	Colin Z. Allred		Jul 26, 2023
D-NV	Susie Lee		Jul 27, 2023
D-NH	Chris Pappas		Aug 25, 2023
D-OR	Andrea Salinas		Sep 13, 2023
D-CA	Josh Harder		Sep 13, 2023
R-IN	Rudy Yakym III		Sep 27, 2023
D-KS	Sharice Davids		Oct 6, 2023
D-NJ	Josh Gottheimer		Oct 30, 2023
R-GU	James C. Moylan		Nov 8, 2023
D-CO	Joe Neguse		Nov 8, 2023
R-WI	Glenn Grothman		Dec 19, 2023
D-CO	Jason Crow		Dec 16, 2024

Committees 3

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Agriculture Committee	Referred Jun 20, 2023
	Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee	Referred Aug 21, 2023
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Jun 20, 2023
	Communications and Technology Subcommittee	Referred Jun 23, 2023
House	Appropriations Committee	Referred Jun 20, 2023

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Aug 21, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.
Jun 23, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Jun 20, 2023Introduced in House
Jun 20, 2023Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Appropriations, 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.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to establish the ReConnect program under that Act, and for other purposes. By Mrs. RODGERS of Washington H.R. 4228. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article IV The single subject of this legislation is: The bill creates Forest Active Management Areas to allow for more active management projects in areas of National Forests at risk of wildfire.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 107, June 20, 2023, page H2992.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 118-17	CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN RURAL AMERICA100 pages	Agriculture Committee	Jun 21, 2023

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1642	ReConnecting Rural America Act of 2023	Identical bill	May 17, 2023

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to establish the ReConnect program under that Act, and for other purposes.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: ReConnecting Rural America Act of 2023

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jun 20, 2023Introduced in House

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