# 119-hr-1975: BEAD FEE Act of 2025

119-hr-1975, BEAD FEE Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Allen, Rick W. [R-GA-12] (R-GA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1975
- As of: 2025-12-21
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-1975
- Congress: 119
- Title: BEAD FEE Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-03-10
- Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Rick W. [R-GA-12] (R-GA)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Limits state and local fees on broadband construction to qualify for BEAD funding.** The bill would withhold BEAD grants from an eligible state, territory, or political subdivision that charges fees to consider requests or to use rights-of-way for placing, constructing, or modifying broadband infrastructure unless those fees are competitively neutral, technology neutral, nondiscriminatory, publicly disclosed, based on actual and direct costs, and described to distinguish recurring from nonrecurring charges and locations with or without existing broadband. - States and territories would need to change fee policies or risk losing BEAD program money for broadband deployment. - Local governments and political subdivisions would have to make fees publicly disclosed, nondiscriminatory, cost-based, and clearly described for applicants. - Broadband applicants and builders would get clearer information on fees and a required distinction between recurring and nonrecurring charges and between sites with and without existing broadband.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Tighter local broadband fees for federal broadband grants: benefit, high. If enacted, the Assistant Secretary would only award BEAD grants when state or local broadband permit and right-of-way fees meet strict rules. Fees would need to be competitively neutral, technology neutral, and nondiscriminatory, and publicly posted. They would have to be based only on actual, dir…

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- 119-hr-4317: PBM Reform Act of 2025
- 119-hr-833: Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025
- 119-hr-2345: Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve Establishment Act
- 119-hr-9535: Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act of 2026
- 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act
- 119-hr-21: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-1975 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1975)

## Related
- [119-hr-4317: PBM Reform Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4317)
- [119-hr-833: Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-833)
- [119-hr-2345: Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve Establishment Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2345)
- [119-hr-9535: Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9535)
- [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262)
- [119-hr-21: Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-21)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1975 (as of 2025-12-21).