Amend CSSB 1 (house committee report) in Article X of the bill by adding the following appropriately numbered rider following the appropriations to the Legislative Budget Board (page X-3):
____. Study on Digital Equity. Using funds appropriated above for the Legislative Budget Board, the Legislative Budget Board shall conduct a study on the equity of access in this state to technology necessary for using the Internet to participate in modern society and the distribution in this state of state and federal grant money to promote that access. The study must include an analysis of the benefits and drawbacks of the use of census block data as a basis for distribution of that grant money. The Legislative Budget Board shall submit a report on the results of the study to the Governor's Broadband Development Council not later than November 1, 2022.