Alaska legislation · 34th Legislature
Alaska HJR6: SUPPORT UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND
Status: In committee, March 18, 2025
Urging the United States Congress to safeguard the Universal Service Fund to ensure continued funding for essential programs that support critical broadband and telecommunication infrastructure and services for low-income rural residents of the state.
What the bill says
A resolution Urging the United States Congress to safeguard the Universal Service Fund to ensure continued funding for essential programs that support critical broadband and telecommunication infrastructure and services for low-income rural residents of the state.
From the engrossed text:
A RESOLUTION Urging the United States Congress to safeguard the Universal Service Fund to ensure continued funding for essential programs that support critical broadband and telecommunication infrastructure and services for low-income rural residents of the state. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: WHEREAS the Universal Service Fund provides vital support to programs that fund Internet and telephone services to support health care, education, consumer services, and Lifeline telephone services in rural areas of the state; and WHEREAS the programs the Universal Service Fund supports are essential for providing equitable access to educational, health care, and economic opportunities for residents of the state; and WHEREAS geographic and economic challenges in rural areas of the state make funding from the Universal Service Fund vital for connectivity and fixed and mobile infrastructure development; and WHEREAS an interruption to Universal Service Fund funding would have HJR006b -1- HJR 6 am New Text Underlined [DELETED TEXT BRACKETED] 34-LS0312\N.A devastating consequences for schools, libraries, health care providers, and the communities served by those entities; and WHEREAS the Universal Service Fund provides essential support for connectivity for residents of the state by providing more than $500,000,000 annually in Universal Service Fund funding; and WHEREAS, if the Universal Service Fund terminates through inaction, approximately 220 rural hospitals and health clinics would lose approximately …
Sponsors
- Commerce, House Labor & (I) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : (S) REFERRED TO LABOR & COMMERCE
- : (S) L&C
- : (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS
- : (H) VERSION: HJR 6 AM
- : (H) TRANSMITTED TO (S)
- : (H) PASSED Y33 N6 E1
- : (H) AUTOMATICALLY IN THIRD READING
- : (H) AM NO 2 ADOPTED UC
- : (H) RETURN TO SECOND FOR AM 2 UC
- : (H) READ THE THIRD TIME HJR 6
Votes
- PASSED (March 17, 2025): 14 yea, 6 nay, passed
- PASSED (March 17, 2025): 33 yea, 6 nay, passed
- PASSED (March 14, 2025): 18 yea, 2 nay, passed
- AM NO 1 FAILED (March 14, 2025): 18 yea, 21 nay, failed
Subjects: EDUCATION, RESIDENCY, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, FEDERAL AID, FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, INTERNET, LIBRARIES
Common questions
- What is HJR6?
- HJR6 is a bill in the Alaska Legislature (34th Legislature): SUPPORT UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND.
- What does HJR6 do?
- In its own words: A resolution Urging the United States Congress to safeguard the Universal Service Fund to ensure continued funding for essential programs that support critical broadband and telecommunication infrastructure and services for low-income rural residents of the state.
- What is the status of HJR6?
- In committee as of March 18, 2025. Latest action: (S) REFERRED TO LABOR & COMMERCE (March 18, 2025).
- Who sponsored HJR6?
- Commerce, House Labor & (I).
- Where is the official record for HJR6?
- On the Alaska Legislature website: https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/34?Root=HJR 6
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