Tribal Internet Expansion Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3184 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3184

       To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to add access to 
telecommunications and information services in Indian country and areas 
    with high populations of Indian people to the universal service 
 principle relating to access to those services in rural, insular, and 
                            high cost areas.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 18, 2025

  Mr. Schiff introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
       To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to add access to 
telecommunications and information services in Indian country and areas 
    with high populations of Indian people to the universal service 
 principle relating to access to those services in rural, insular, and 
                            high cost areas.

    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 ``Tribal Internet Expansion Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. UNIVERSAL SERVICE IN INDIAN COUNTRY AND AREAS WITH HIGH 
              POPULATIONS OF INDIAN PEOPLE.

    Section 254(b)(3) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
254(b)(3)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and those in'' and inserting ``, 
        consumers in''; and
            (2) by inserting ``, and consumers in Indian country (as 
        defined in section 1151 of title 18, United States Code) and in 
        areas with high populations of Indian (as defined in section 19 
        of the Act of June 18, 1934 (commonly known as the `Indian 
        Reorganization Act') (48 Stat. 988, chapter 576; 25 U.S.C. 
        5129)) persons'' after ``high cost areas''.
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