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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced March 5, 2025 by Richard Hudson · Last progress March 5, 2025
Changes rules for a federal broadband grant program to broaden eligible technologies, add workforce-development funding, relax some project-area requirements, and remove many grant preconditions. It also renames parts of the program (replacing “Equity” with “Expansion”), defines what “gigabit‑level” service means, changes how unused funds are handled, and prohibits the program from setting or capping retail broadband rates.
The single-section amendment revises the program language in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to make grant awards technology‑neutral (so long as performance standards are met), allow flexible subgrantee project-area rules, and bar many preconditions (notably a range of labor and other policy requirements) that recipients or subgrantees might otherwise have to meet.