Missouri Laws 620.2450 – Program established, expanded access to broadband internet service — ..
1. A grant program is hereby established under sections 620.2450 to 620.2458 to award grants to applicants who seek to expand access to and improve the reliability of broadband internet service in unserved and underserved areas of the state. The department of economic development shall administer and act as the fiscal agent for the grant program and shall be responsible for receiving and reviewing grant applications and awarding grants under sections 620.2450 to 620.2458. Funding for the grant program established under this section shall be subject to appropriation by the general assembly.
2. As used in sections 620.2450 to 620.2458, the following terms shall mean:
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 620.2450
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
(1) “Project”, the acquisition and installation of retail broadband internet service in unserved and underserved areas of the state;
(2) “Underserved area”, a project area without access to wireline or fixed wireless broadband internet service of speeds of at least one hundred megabits per-second download and twenty megabits per-second upload;
(3) “Unserved area”, a project area without access to wireline or fixed wireless broadband internet service of speeds of at least twenty-five megabits per-second download and three megabits per-second upload.