The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) accepted BEAD funding but said that it has neither the authority nor intention to enforce some of the conditions the Trump administration has placed on the federal funding.
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Barbara van Schewick, director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, said the NTIA exceeded its authority and ignored the BEAD statute when it added Condition 50 to the BEAD requirement.
“It's very clear that Congress wanted NTIA to get the funding out to the states. It did not want to give NTIA the power to overwrite state laws,” she said. “Nothing in the BEAD statute authorizes NTIA to adopt a condition that requires the states not to enforce their laws.”
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