3.0.0 1975 2025-05-23T17:28:44Z 2025-05-23T17:28:44Z House H HR 2025-03-10 119 <pre>[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 44 (Monday, March 10, 2025)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. ALLEN:H.R. 1975.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article 1 Section 8, clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution.[Page H1067]</pre> hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing Referred To 2025-03-10T16:00:40Z 2025-03-10 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee 2025-03-10 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2025-03-10 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress A000372 Rep. Allen, Rick W. [R-GA-12] Rick Allen R GA W. 12 N Science, Technology, Communications Science, Technology, Communications 2025-03-25T14:42:01Z

00 2025-03-10 Introduced in House 2025-05-23T17:28:22Z <p><strong>Broadband Expansion And Deployment Fee Equity and Efficiency Act of 2025 or the BEAD FEE Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill limits the nature of fees that states and territories receiving Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program funding may impose on applicants seeking authorization to construct or deploy broadband infrastructure.&nbsp;</p><p>(The BEAD Program is administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and provides funding to eligible entities for broadband deployment, connectivity, mapping, and adoption projects. <em>Eligible entities</em> include U.S. states, territories, and the District of Columbia.)&nbsp;</p><p>Under the bill, BEAD funds may not be provided to an eligible entity if the entity or a political subdivision of the entity charges fees (1) to consider a request to place, construct, or modify broadband infrastructure; or (2) for the use of a right-of-way owned or managed by the entity or a political subdivision, or for the use of infrastructure within such a right-of-way, to place, construct, or modify broadband infrastructure. However, this restriction does not apply to fees that are competitively neutral, technology neutral, nondiscriminatory, publicly disclosed, and based on actual, direct, and objectively reasonable costs. Any such fee must be described to applicants in a manner that distinguishes between (1) recurring and nonrecurring fees, and (2) the use of infrastructure on which there is no existing broadband infrastructure and the use of infrastructure on which there is existing broadband infrastructure as of the date of the application.&nbsp;</p>

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