HRES 317 · 118th Congress 2023–2025, ended

Recognizing the importance of broadband in rural areas throughout the United States and the critical need to invest in broadband expansion in an increasingly remote and digitally dependent world.

Fact sheet

Latest action · May 15, 2023 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.

Progress

Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried. A simple resolution is the business of one chamber alone: it is not sent to the other chamber or to the President, and does not become law.

  1. IntroducedApr 24, 2023
  2. Agreed to in HouseNot reached

Summary

This resolution addresses the need for improvements to broadband infrastructure, particularly in rural areas, and the role of specified federal agencies in making such improvements.

Cosponsors 3

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 24, 2023 to Nov 28, 2023, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-TXHenry CuellarOriginalApr 24, 2023
D-HIJill N. TokudaMay 16, 2023
D-MIElissa SlotkinNov 28, 2023

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. May 15, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.
  2. Apr 28, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
  3. Apr 24, 2023Introduced in House
  4. Apr 24, 2023Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Apr 24, 2023Introduced in House

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