Resources on briefs, whitepapers, and analyses that discuss issues surrounding the digital divide and policy actions that can be taken to address them. The LA DEAL legislative tracker also provides up-to-date information regarding broadband legislation in the California State Legislature.
SB 876: Digital Education Equity Program: County Offices of Education
SUMMARY: Josh Becker This bill would appropriate $18,000,000 from the General Fund to the State…
AB 2765: Public Utilities Public Purposes Program Fund
SUMMARY: Eduardo Garcia Would establish the Public Utilities Public Purpose Programs Fund, and would, upon…
AB 2753: Communications – Digital Equity Bill of Rights
SUMMARY: Eloise Reyes This bill, the Digital Equity Bill of Rights, would state that it…
AB 2752: Broadband Infrastructure: Mapping
SUMMARY: Jim Wood Would require the Public Utilities Commission, in collaboration with relevant state agencies…
Ab 2751: Affordable Internet and Net Equality Act of 2022
SUMMARY: Eduardo Garcia This bill, the Affordable Internet and Net Equality Act of 2022, would…
AB 2750: Department of Technology: Digital Equity Plan
SUMMARY: Mia Bonta This bill would require the department, in consultation with the public, the…
AB 2749: Communications – California Advanced Services Fund
SUMMARY: Sharon Quirk Silva Current law requires the Public Utilities Commission, in approving infrastructure projects…
AB 2748: Digital Equity in Video Franchising Act of 2022
SUMMARY: Chris Holden Would revise and recast the Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of…
AB 2702: CASF – Broadband Public Housing Account
SUMMARY: The bill would establish that the goal of the account is to provide internet…
Ab 2641: CETF: Focus and Funding Priorities
SUMMARY: Mike Gipson This bill would require the commission to revise the focus of the…
AB 2252: Broadband infrastructure: Disasters – Reports
SUMMARY: Cecilia Aguiar-Curry Would, following a state or local disaster for which the Governor has…
POLICY BRIEFS
POLICY BRIEFS
EFF Policy Brief – The Case for Fiber to the Home, Today
USC Annenberg – Broadband Affordability and the Emergency Broadband Benefit in California
CETF-USC Statewide Broadband Adoption Survey: Internet Adoption and the Digital Divide in California
Benton Institute – Broadband for America’s future: A Vision for the 2020s