House2025-26 session
HB 2016: Concerning an additive capital budget for state matching funds and federal expenditure authority for broadband.
Did not pass. The 2025-26 session has ended.
- Sponsor
- Tharinger
- Introduced
- February 21, 2025
- Status
- H Rules X
- Last action
- House Rules "X" file. (January 12, 2026)
- As of
- October 16, 2026, 5:15 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Appropriates $1.2 billion in federal expenditure authority and $280 million in state matching funding for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program.
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