Connected Rural Schools Act
This bill authorizes counties to use funds from the Secure Rural Schools Program to provide or expand access to (1) broadband services at local schools, or (2) technology and connectivity necessary for students to use digital learning tools outside of a local school campus.
To amend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act 
  of 2000 to allow counties to use certain funds to provide or expand 
access to broadband telecommunications services and other technologies.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Connected Rural Schools Act''.

SEC. 2. ACCESS TO BROADBAND AND OTHER TECHNOLOGY.

    Section 302(a) of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-
Determination Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 7142(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) to provide or expand access to--
                    ``(A) broadband telecommunications services at 
                local schools; or
                    ``(B) the technology and connectivity necessary for 
                students to use a digital learning tool at or outside 
                of a local school campus.''.
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Connected Rural Schools Act
A bill to amend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to allow counties to use certain funds to provide or expand access to broadband telecommunications services and other technologies.
Connected Rural Schools Act
Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine