Community Broadband Act of 2023

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 118th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

AED EshooSponsor

22 cosponsors · 22 D

SBD Brown JCD Clyburn SHD Horsford JHD Huffman RND Neal CPD Pingree MSD Strickland NWD Williams SCD Cherfilus-McCormick JCD Crockett RGD Grijalva JBD Bowman BTD Thompson RTD Tlaib END Norton MSD Stansbury BLD Lee JHD Hayes JMD McGovern ACD Carson RKD Krishnamoorthi WKD Keating

8 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

This bill prohibits states from blocking the provision of broadband by public providers, public-private partnership providers, or cooperatively organized providers. Further, public providers and state or local entities participating in a partnership must administer applicable ordinances and rules without discrimination against competing private providers.