United States · Bill · S
S. 500 (107th)
Universal Service Support Act
Introduced
8 March 2001
Last action
—
Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2082)
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
19 August 2025
Summary
Universal Service Support Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to terminate current caps and limitations on universal service support mechanisms. Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from enforcing or reimposing such caps or limitations for rural telephone companies or exchanges they acquire based on fund size or other considerations unrelated to the sufficiency of support to achieve desired purposes. Requires the FCC to calculate: (1) high-cost (in excess of 115 percent of the nationwide average) loop (connection) support portions; and (2) the nationwide average unseparated loop cost.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
3 official files
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 8 March 2001
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 8 March 2001
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 8 March 2001
Sponsors
No sponsors or actors listed by the source.
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/senate-bill/500
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/107/s/500