Congress orders study of web access in public housing
H.R. 9493 — Home Internet Accessibility Act · Filed by Nikema Williams (D-GA) · 9 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 25, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill tells the state to study public housing web access. The Comptroller General must report within one year on which homes have web access. The report must show access by place and by who lives there. It must also show costs to add web. The Department of Housing and Urban Development must make a plan within 18 months. The plan must bring web to all public housing.
Who it affects
Low-income people in public housing would learn if their homes can get web. State agencies that run public housing must do the study and make the plan.
One thing to notice
The bill orders a study and a plan. It does not say how much money will pay for it.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
9 cosponsors: 9 Democrats.
- Jun 25, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 25, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Financial Services · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $90,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 9 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Nikema Williams, who sponsored the bill, received $431,250 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Affordable Housing Management Association (nahma) — $90,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- public housing — homes the state helps pay for, usually for low-income people
- Comptroller General — a top official who checks how the state spends money
- Department of Housing and Urban Development — the state agency that runs public housing programs
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jul 9, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 14, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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