LAST ACRE Act of 2025
Congress proposes Agriculture Department grants and loans to boost high-speed internet on farm land
Stalled
No legislative action in over 90 days.
Legislative Progress
Key Points
- Creates a new Agriculture Department program to give competitive grants and loans to providers to bring high-speed internet to unserved or underserved farm and ranch land.
- Sets the target service at at least 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload, meant to support things like connected tractors, irrigation systems, sensors, drones, livestock facilities, and farm offices.
- Prioritizes the most isolated places first: unserved farm land in remote areas, then other unserved areas, then underserved remote areas, then other underserved areas.
- Limits what the money can do: it can’t be used to wire homes already marked as serviceable on federal broadband maps, and it can’t be used to build service for nearby non-farm areas as a regular commercial expansion.
- Requires basic cybersecurity steps for funded networks and gives small/low-income farm operations a better deal by allowing up to a 90% federal cost share (normally up to 80%).
Impact Analysis
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Milestones
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Introduced in House
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Source Information
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
LAST ACRE Act of 2025
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