The White House and Department of Commerce have announced funding for each state, territory and the District of Columbia for high-speed internet infrastructure deployment through the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program—a $42.45 billion grant program created in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and administered by the Department of Commerce.
States, D.C., and territories will receive their formal notice of allocation on June 30, 2023. Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Eligible Entities have 180 days from the date of that formal notice to submit their Initial Proposals describing how they propose to run their grant programs. Eligible Entities can begin submitting their Initial Proposals starting July 1, 2023.
Nineteen states will each receive over $1 billion in funding. The top 10 state recipients of BEAD funding are:
- Texas – $3,312,616,455.45
- California – $1,864,136,508.93
- Missouri – $1,736,302,708.39
- Michigan – $1,559,362,479.29
- North Carolina – $1,532,999,481.15
- Virginia – $1,481,489,572.87
- Alabama – $1,401,221,901.77
- Louisiana – $1,355,554,552.94
- Georgia – $1,307,214,371.30
- Washington – $1,227,742,066.30
To view state by state funding visit InternetforAll.gov.
