On April 20, 2022, Governor Ricketts signed the Nebraska Broadband Bridge Act (the Act), LB 1144 (2022), which requires the Nebraska Public Service Commission to create and maintain an official Nebraska location Fabric Broadband service access map. The funding for this requirement was tagged to BEAD. Governor Pillen signed LB683 (2023) on May 26, 2023. This bill moved the responsibilities of the official Nebraska Map as well as the stewardship of the BEAD money to the Nebraska Broadband Office.

Archived and historical documents related to the Nebraska BEAD Program are linked below

The Challenge Process

NBEAD Applications