Consolidated Appropriations Act
The Act's Acronymn.
What is the CAA?
The Act's Acronym.
What is ARPA?
The Act's Acronym.
The Act's Acronymn.
What is BBB?
The full name of the CARES Act.
What is The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act?
The year the Act passed.
What is 2020?
The federal department responsible for distributing the funds allocated in Sections 602, Section 603 and Section 604 of the Act.
What is the U.S. Department of the Treasury?
The date President Biden signed the Act into law.
What is November 15th, 2021?
The amount of funding (in millions) the bill would provide to the FCC to conduct outreach on its affordability programs.
What is $100 million?
The name of the person President Biden nominated to the FCC who has yet to be confirmed.
Who is Gigi Sohn?
The Consolidated Appropriations Act establishes this broadband affordability program, which provides eligible households with a discount of up to $50 per month towards broadband service and a one-time discount of up to $100 to purchase a device.
What is the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program(EBB)?
The Act makes available $7.17 billion to schools and libraries to cover the costs of broadband equipment such as Wi-Fi hotspots, modems, routers, and connected devices through this program.
What is the Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF)?
The new name of the Emergency Broadband Benefit pursuant to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
What is the Affordable Connectivity Program.
The house of Congress where this bill currently sits & awaits a vote before it can become law.
What is the Senate?
The Congressional Representative who introduced the Broadband Justice Act.
Who is Congressman Jamaal Bowman?
The Act funds this $980 million NTIA-run program supports broadband deployment on tribal lands, as well as efforts relating to telehealth, distance learning, broadband affordability, and digital inclusion.
What is the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program.
This Act created this program to provide $10 billion for payments to eligible governments to carry out critical capital projects that directly enable work, education, and health monitoring, including remote options, in response to the public health emergency.
What is the Capital Projects Fund?
In order to receive State Digital Equity Capacity Grants, states must first develop this.
What is the State Digital Equity Plan
The bill would provide funding for a new program at NTIA to provide funding to organizations to purchase & distribute up to two of this item to low-income households.
What is devices?
The name of the original bill that eventually became the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment program in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
What is the BRIDGE (Broadband Reform and Investment to Drive Growth in the Economy) Act?
HBCUs, TCUs and MSIs are eligible grant recipients under this $268 million grant program funded by the Act & provides funding for broadband internet access service and eligible equipment or the hiring and training of information technology personnel.
What is the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program
The Act allocates $219 billion and $130 billion to eligible state and local governments, respectively, to meet pandemic response needs including broadband infrastructure investments through these sister programs.
What is the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds?
The amount of funding (in billions) that the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act allocates for digital inclusion activities.
What is $65 billion
Senator Maria Cantwell, who included surprise (to us) funding in the bill to stand up a pilot program to increase affordable broadband in urban communities, is from this state.
What is Washington?
The amount of funding in millions for digital inclusion included in the CARES Act.
What is $30 million?