Assisting Broadband Connectivity Act of 2021
This bill prohibits the Rural Utilities Service, in administering any broadband or telecommunications program, from determining that a project is ineligible for funding because the project has already received state funding. Further, an applicant for funding under such programs may use funds received from a state program to satisfy any matching requirement.
To amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to clarify certain 
       matters relating to State funding, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Assisting Broadband Connectivity Act 
of 2021''.

SEC. 2. STATE FUNDING UNDER RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE PROGRAMS.

    (a) Eligibility of Projects That Receive State Funding.--Title VII 
of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 950cc et seq.) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 704. ELIGIBILITY OF PROJECTS THAT RECEIVE STATE FUNDING.

    ``In administering any broadband or telecommunications program, the 
Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Rural Utilities 
Service, shall not determine that a project is ineligible for funding 
because the project has received funding from a State.''.
    (b) State Funds To Satisfy Matching Requirements.--For purposes of 
any matching funds requirement under any program administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Administrator of the Rural 
Utilities Service, an applicant for funding under that program may use 
funds received from a State program (including funds received by a 
State from the Federal Government) to satisfy the matching funds 
requirement.
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Assisting Broadband Connectivity Act of 2021
A bill to amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to clarify certain matters relating to State funding, and for other purposes.
Assisting Broadband Connectivity Act of 2021
Sen. Grassley, Chuck