NCSL Legislative Video Resource Center

Join this webinar to learn the nuts and bolts of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program to ensure success and the role legislators can play in the process. NCSL gratefully acknowledges The Pew Charitable Trusts for its support of this two-part webinar series. 

This is one webinar in a two-part series on Broadband Deployment and BEAD. View the whole series here.

President Biden signed the bipartisan Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act of 2022 to tackle some of the biggest manufacturing and innovation challenges of our time. The act will invest $50 billion through the Department of Commerce’s CHIPS for America Fund to revitalize the domestic semiconductor industry, protect American national and economic security, preserve U.S. leadership in the industries of the future, create good-paying jobs and build strong communities here in the United States.

The digital divide refers to the gap between those who have access to high-speed internet and devices and those who do not. Access to high-speed broadband internet is critically important for economic opportunity, education and job creation. Learn an overview of the topic from experts. Speakers include Heather Morton, NCSL.