Home Internet Accessibility Act

This bill would require the Comptroller General (head of the Government Accountability Office) to send Congress a report within one year on whether federally assisted housing can support broadband internet service. The report would identify which housing has or lacks broadband access and which would need retrofitting, broken down by state, congressional district, ZIP Code, and census tract. It would also estimate costs and timeframes, describe challenges and past lessons, evaluate HUD's ConnectHome pilot program, and give recommendations to Congress. The bill would also require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to develop and submit to Congress, within 18 months, a plan for retrofitting federally assisted housing to support broadband.

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Sponsors

• Nikema Williams Democrat sponsor
• 9 cosponsors