I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1870 
To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to improve the 
Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 5, 2025 
Mr. HUDSON (for himself, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. LATTA, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. CAR-
TER of Georgia, Mr. DUNN of Florida, Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
FULCHER, Mr. PFLUGER, Mrs. CAMMACK, Mr. OBERNOLTE, Mrs. 
HOUCHIN, Mr. FRY, Mr. GOLDMAN of Texas, and Mr. CRENSHAW) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to 
improve the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment 
Program, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Streamlining Program 
Efficiency and Expanding Deployment for BEAD Act’’ or 
the ‘‘SPEED for BEAD Act’’. 
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‘‘(D) if the eligible entity awards a 
subgrant on the basis of a project area defined 
by the eligible entity, incorporate a mecha-
nism— 
‘‘(i) for a prospective subgrantee to 
remove from such project area a location 
that the prospective subgrantee determines 
would unreasonably increase costs or is 
otherwise necessary to remove; and 
‘‘(ii) to award a subgrant for any lo-
cation removed pursuant to clause (i).’’. 
(e) PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN CONDITIONS.—Sec-
tion 60102(g) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 
Act (47 U.S.C. 1702(g)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(4) PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN CONDITIONS.— 
Neither the Assistant Secretary nor an eligible entity 
may establish or enforce, with respect to a process 
of bidding, a grant, or a subgrant under this section, 
a condition or other requirement, including a report-
ing requirement or bid scoring component or pref-
erence, of such process of bidding, grant, or 
subgrant (without regard to whether such condition 
or other requirement was approved as part of the 
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initial proposal, or any other portion of the applica-
tion process, of such eligible entity) that relates to— 
‘‘(A) prevailing wages or compliance with 
subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United 
States Code; 
‘‘(B) project labor agreements; 
‘‘(C) union workforces; 
‘‘(D) collective bargaining; 
‘‘(E) local hiring; 
‘‘(F) commitment to union neutrality; 
‘‘(G) labor peace agreements; 
‘‘(H) workforce composition or reporting of 
workforce composition; 
‘‘(I) climate change; 
‘‘(J) regulation of network management 
practices, including data caps; 
‘‘(K) open access; 
‘‘(L) a letter of credit from a subgrantee 
that— 
‘‘(i) has commercially deployed or op-
erated a broadband network using tech-
nologies that are the same or similar to the 
technologies relevant to such process of 
bidding, grant, or subgrant; and 
‘‘(ii) is seeking— 
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‘‘(I) funding in an amount that is 
less than 25 percent of the annual 
revenues of the subgrantee, including 
any entity that controls, is controlled 
by, or that is under common control 
with such subgrantee; or 
‘‘(II) to provide service to a num-
ber of locations that is less than 25 
percent of the total number of loca-
tions served by the subgrantee, includ-
ing any entity that controls, is con-
trolled by, or that is under common 
control with such subgrantee; or 
‘‘(M) diversity, equity, and inclusion.’’. 
(f) 
ALL
TECHNOLOGIES
ELIGIBLE.—Section 
60102(g) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act 
(47 U.S.C. 1702(g)), as amended by the preceding sub-
sections of this section, is further amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(5) ALL TECHNOLOGIES ELIGIBLE.—An eligi-
ble entity, in awarding subgrants for the deployment 
of a broadband network using grant funds received 
under this section, shall treat as satisfying the defi-
nition of the term ‘reliable broadband service’ any 
broadband service that meets the performance cri-
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teria established under subsection (a)(2)(L) without 
regard to the type of technology by which such serv-
ice is provided.’’. 
(g) NO REGULATION OF RATES PERMITTED.—Sec-
tion 60102(h)(5)(D) of the Infrastructure Investment and 
Jobs Act (47 U.S.C. 1702(h)(5)(D)) is amended to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(D) NO
REGULATION
OF
RATES
PER-
MITTED.— 
‘‘(i) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Noth-
ing in this title may be construed to au-
thorize the Assistant Secretary, the Na-
tional Telecommunications and Informa-
tion Administration, or an eligible entity to 
regulate, set, or otherwise mandate the 
rates charged for broadband service or the 
methodologies used to calculate such rates, 
for consumers generally or for any subset 
of consumers, including through the cap-
ping or freezing of such rates, the encour-
agement of another entity to regulate such 
rates, or the use of rates as part of an ap-
plication scoring process. 
‘‘(ii) PROHIBITION.—An eligible entity 
may not regulate, set, or otherwise man-
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date pursuant to this section the rates 
charged for broadband service or the meth-
odologies used to calculate such rates, in-
cluding through the capping or freezing of 
such rates, the encouragement of another 
entity to regulate such rates, or the use of 
rates as part of an application scoring 
process, without regard to whether the reg-
ulation, setting, or mandating— 
‘‘(I) was approved, prior to the 
date of the enactment of this clause, 
as part of the initial proposal, or any 
other portion of the application proc-
ess, of such entity; or 
‘‘(II) is carried out in conjunc-
tion with the requirement to offer a 
low-cost broadband service option 
under paragraph (4)(B).’’. 
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