H-8159

   Amend Senate File 2400, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  Page 3, line 18, after <including for> by inserting <broadband mapping and>
   2.  Page 3, line 22, after <use> by inserting <not more than one percent of the>
   3.  Page 3, line 22, after <fund> by inserting <at the beginning of the fiscal year>
   4.  Page 5, by striking lines 15 through 32 and inserting: 
   <5.  The office shall not award a grant pursuant to this section that exceeds fifteen thirty-five percent of the communications service provider’s project cost.  The total amount of the grants the office awards from the empower rural Iowa broadband grant fund pursuant to this section shall be as follows:
   a.  For projects that will result in the installation of broadband infrastructure that will facilitate broadband service providing a minimum download speed less than one hundred megabits per second but greater than or equal to the download speed specified in the definition of targeted service area in section 8B.1, and a minimum upload speed less than twenty megabits per second but greater than or equal to the upload speed specified in the definition of targeted service area in section 8B.1, the total amount of the grants the office awards shall not exceed fifty percent of the moneys in the fund at the beginning of the fiscal year. However, if the amount requested for projects that facilitate broadband service at the speeds described in paragraph “b” for the fiscal year is less than the amount reserved for projects under paragraph “b”, the office may award the difference to projects under this paragraph for the same fiscal year.
   b.  For projects that will result in the installation of broadband infrastructure that will facilitate broadband service providing a minimum download speed of one hundred megabits per second and a minimum upload speed of twenty megabits per second, the total amount of the grants the office awards shall not exceed fifty percent of the moneys in the fund at the beginning of the fiscal year. However, if the amount requested for projects that facilitate broadband service at the speeds described in paragraph “a” for the fiscal year is less than the amount reserved for projects under paragraph “a”, the office may award the difference to projects under this paragraph for the same fiscal year.>

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COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

MOHR of Scott, Chairperson