Bill Text: IL SR0785 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges each member of the Illinois Congressional Delegation to support continued funding of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) so that low-income Illinois households can continue to receive the support they need to participate in the digital marketplace.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-05-25 - Resolution Adopted [SR0785 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SR0785-Introduced.html
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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION | ||||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, Access to affordable, reliable, high-speed | ||||||
| 3 | broadband service is essential to full participation in modern | ||||||
| 4 | life in the State and throughout the United States; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, The persistent digital divide in the State and in | ||||||
| 6 | the United States is a barrier to economic competitiveness in | ||||||
| 7 | the economic distribution of essential public services, | ||||||
| 8 | including health care and education; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, In 2021, as part of the bipartisan Infrastructure | ||||||
| 10 | Investment and Jobs Act's historic investment in broadband | ||||||
| 11 | infrastructure and digital equity, Congress appropriated more | ||||||
| 12 | than 14 billion dollars for the Affordable Connectivity | ||||||
| 13 | Program (ACP); and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Based on the current take rates, the more than 14 | ||||||
| 15 | billion dollars in funding appropriated for the ACP could be | ||||||
| 16 | exhausted in early 2024; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, The ACP has been a tremendous success, with | ||||||
| 18 | almost 700,000 Illinois households enrolled in the program and | ||||||
| 19 | 23,000,000 households enrolled nationally; and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, The ACP has been a critical tool in helping | ||||||
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| 1 | bridge the digital divide that exists between those who have | ||||||
| 2 | access to modern information and communications technology and | ||||||
| 3 | those who do not; therefore, be it
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| 4 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL | ||||||
| 5 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge each member of | ||||||
| 6 | the Illinois Congressional Delegation to support continued | ||||||
| 7 | funding of the ACP so that low-income Illinois households can | ||||||
| 8 | continue to receive the support they need to participate in | ||||||
| 9 | the digital marketplace; and be it further
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