Tribal Internet Expansion Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsor
- 1
- Latest action
- Nov 18, 2025
What it does
The Tribal Internet Expansion Act of 2025 would amend the Communications Act of 1934 to extend the universal service principle—currently applied to rural, insular, and high-cost areas—to include access to telecommunications and information services in Indian country and areas with high populations of Indian people. This change would require the Federal Communications Commission to ensure that consumers in these communities receive comparable access to essential communications services as those in other underserved areas. The bill specifically defines “Indian country” using 18 U.S.C. § 1151 and “areas with high populations of Indian persons” using the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934,…
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