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Community Connect Grant Program Act of 2025
To amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to reauthorize the Community Connect Grant Program, and for other purposes.
Summary
The bill reauthorizes the Community Connect Grant Program under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, which provides grants for broadband deployment in rural areas. It updates the broadband speed requirements that service providers must meet, increasing the minimum downstream speeds from 10 Mbps to 25 Mbps and upstream speeds from 1 Mbps to 3 Mbps. The authorization period is extended from 2023 to 2030.
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Actions (3)
- Dec 2, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development. · house
- Nov 17, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. · house
- Nov 17, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 17, 2025
Ms. Stansbury introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to reauthorize the Community Connect Grant Program, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Community Connect Grant Program Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. COMMUNITY CONNECT GRANT PROGRAM.
Section 604 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 950bb-3) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking “less than the” and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting the following: “less than—
“(A) a 100-Mbps downstream transmission capacity; and
“(B) a 20-Mbps upstream transmission capacity.”; and
(B) in paragraph (2)—
(i) in the matter preceding subparagraph
(A), by striking “an area” and inserting “a rural area”;
(ii) in subparagraph (A), by striking “10- Mbps” and inserting “25-Mbps”; and
(iii) in subparagraph (B), by striking “1- Mbps” and inserting “3-Mbps”;
(2) in subsection (d)(2)(A), by striking “area; or” and inserting “area (including any eligible broadband service that will be provided in the future in the eligible service area pursuant to enforceable commitments for network deployment applicable under another broadband funding program); or”; and
(3) in subsection (g), by striking “2023” and inserting “2030”. <all>
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