Senate-Passed 'Minibus' Funding Bill Includes Privacy, Drone Amendments
The Senate-passed FY 2019 “minibus” appropriations bill (HR-6147), which includes FCC and FTC funding, includes two tech-centric amendments. One would bar the Department of Transportation from spending its FY 2019 funding to administer requirements on use of electronic logging devices…
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by operators of commercial motor vehicles. Another allocates $6 million in matching funds to “qualified commercial entities seeking to demonstrate or validate” FAA-designated drone technologies at agency-designated test sites. The Senate passed HR-6147 Wednesday on a 92-6 vote with an amendment that would clarify rules for the $600 million Rural Utilities Service-administered pilot distance learning, telemedicine and broadband program (see 1808010064).