Stopping the Theft and Destruction of Broadband Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2784 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2784

To amend section 1362 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the 
           destruction of broadband internet access service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 9, 2025

    Ms. Lee of Florida (for herself and Mr. Veasey) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 1362 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the 
           destruction of broadband internet access service.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stopping the Theft and Destruction 
of Broadband Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING DESTRUCTION OF BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE.

    Section 1362 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``, including facilities used to provide 
        broadband internet access service'' after ``means of 
        communication'';
            (2) by inserting ``or by any other person or entity'' after 
        ``operated or controlled by the United States'';
            (3) by striking ``used or intended to be used for the 
        military or civil defense functions of the United States''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
    ``For purposes of this section, the term `broadband internet access 
service'--
            ``(1) means a mass-market retail service by wire or radio 
        that provides the capability to transmit data to and receive 
        data from all or substantially all internet endpoints, 
        including any capabilities that are incidental to and enable 
        the operation of the communications service, but excluding 
        dial-up internet access service; and
            ``(2) includes any service that the Federal Communications 
        Commission finds to be providing a functional equivalent of the 
        service described in paragraph (1).''.
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