CBO Scores Three House Telecom Measures
The Congressional Budget Office scored several House measures this week that cleared the Commerce Committee last month (see 1604280044). HR-2589, which would force the FCC to post adopted items within 24 hours of receiving dissents, “would have no significant effect…
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on the agency’s workload or costs,” CBO said. The Spectrum Challenge Prize Act (HR-4190) would, based “on the historical costs of administering other federal prize competitions,” end up costing upon implementation “a total $6 million over the 2017-2021 period, assuming the appropriation of the necessary amounts,” CBO said. It noted a similar cost estimate for the provision as included in the Senate’s Mobile Now (S-2555) legislation. The Rural Health Care Connectivity Act (HR-4111) “would increase direct spending by $193 million and revenues by $212 million over the 2017-2026 period, resulting in an estimated net reduction in the deficit of $19 million,” CBO said. “Because CBO expects the FCC would increase fee collections associated with the Universal Service Fund, the bill would increase the cost of an existing mandate on private entities required to pay those fees. Based on information from the FCC, CBO estimates that the incremental cost of the mandate would amount to no more than $25 million in any of the next five years.”