HR 2750
Bridging the Broadband Gap Act of 2025
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Bill overview
This bill modifies the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program to allow recipients of funds to offer broadband vouchers to households that currently lack adequate broadband access. The vouchers can be used to cover the cost of eligible broadband service, with priority given to households in areas with lower incomes. The program limits vouchers to households in unserved or underserved locations and restricts voucher amounts to a maximum of $30 per month for a 12-month period.
Key provisions
- Allows BEAD program recipients to provide broadband vouchers.
- Prioritizes voucher distribution to households in lower-income political subdivisions.
- Vouchers are limited to households in unserved or underserved locations.
- Vouchers can cover up to 50% of the cost of broadband customer premises equipment or monthly service fees.
- The maximum voucher amount is $30 per month.
- Vouchers can only be used for a 12-month period.
- Defines ‘broadband customer premises equipment’ and ‘eligible broadband service costs’.
Who is affected
- Households without adequate broadband access
- Eligible entities receiving BEAD funds
- Political subdivisions
- Satellite and fixed wireless broadband service providers
Notable changes
- Expands the BEAD Program to include broadband vouchers.
- Introduces income-based prioritization for voucher recipients.
- Establishes location-based eligibility requirements (unserved/underserved).
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 2750
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to authorize recipients of funds under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program to use such funds to provide broadband vouchers to households in certain locations, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Bridging the Broadband Gap Act of 2025
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Section 60102 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (47 U.S.C. 1702) is amended by adding at the end the following:
An eligible entity may not provide a voucher under this subsection to a household unless, on the day before such eligible entity provides the first such voucher to such household, such household resides at a location that is an unserved location or an underserved location.
In the case of eligible broadband service costs described in clauses (i)(II) and (ii) of paragraph (5)(B), an eligible entity may only provide vouchers under this subsection to a household to cover such costs charged to such household with respect to a single period of 12 consecutive months.
In this subsection:
broadband customer premises equipmentmeans equipment employed on the premises of a household to provide satellite or fixed wireless broadband service.
The term eligible broadband service costs
means the following:
the purchase of broadband customer premises equipment; or
the monthly lease or rental of broadband customer premises equipment.
The monthly amount (not to exceed $30 per month) charged by a provider of satellite or fixed wireless broadband service to a household for providing such service to such household.