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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 827 
To require the Comptroller General to submit to Congress a report on the 
capacity of federally assisted housing to support broadband service, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 2, 2023 
Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia (for herself and Mr. TIMMONS) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To require the Comptroller General to submit to Congress 
a report on the capacity of federally assisted housing 
to support broadband service, 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 ‘‘Home Internet Acces-
sibility Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON THE CAPAC-
ITY OF FEDERALLY ASSISTED HOUSING TO 
SUPPORT BROADBAND SERVICE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General 
of the United States shall submit to Congress a report 
on the capacity of federally assisted housing to support 
broadband service. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The report required under sub-
section (a) shall include— 
(1) an analysis that identifies which federally 
assisted housing has access to broadband service and 
which such housing does not have access to 
broadband service, disaggregated by State, congres-
sional district, ZIP Code, and census tract, that in-
cludes demographic information and any Federal 
agency responsible for such housing; 
(2) an analysis of which such housing does not 
currently have the capacity to support broadband 
service deployment and would require retrofitting to 
support 
broadband 
service 
deployment, 
disaggregated by State, congressional district, ZIP 
Code, and census tract, that includes demographic 
information and any Federal agency responsible for 
such housing; 
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(3) an analysis of the estimated costs and time-
frame necessary for all federally assisted housing to 
have the capacity to support broadband service; 
(4) an analysis of the challenges to more wide-
spread deployment of broadband service, including 
the comparative market dynamics to expansion in 
rural areas and low-income urban and suburban 
areas, and the challenges to pursuing retrofits for all 
federally assisted housing to have the capacity to 
support broadband service; 
(5) descriptions of lessons learned from pre-
vious retrofitting actions; 
(6) an evaluation of the ConnectHome pilot 
program of the Secretary of Housing and Urban De-
velopment; and 
(7) recommendations for Congress to allow for 
all federally assisted housing to have the capacity to 
support broadband service under a range of specific 
projected timelines. 
SEC. 3. PLAN FOR BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY IN FEDER-
ALLY ASSISTED HOUSING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development, in consultation with the Comptroller 
General and other relevant heads of Federal agencies, 
shall— 
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(1) develop a plan for retrofitting federally as-
sisted housing, as necessary, to support broadband 
service; and 
(2) submit such plan to the Congress not later 
than 18 months after the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) 
BROADBAND
SERVICE.—The 
term 
‘‘broadband service’’ has the meaning given the term 
‘‘broadband internet access service’’ in section 8.1(b) 
of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, or any suc-
cessor regulation. 
(2) 
FEDERALLY
ASSISTED
HOUSING.—The 
term ‘‘federally assisted housing’’ means any dwell-
ing that constitutes or contains a housing unit that 
is assisted under a program administered by the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or the 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
(3) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each 
State of the United States, the District of Columbia, 
Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American 
Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands. 
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