According to the Senate bill introductions for April 9…

Senator Westrom introduced–

S.F. No. 3919: A bill for an act relating to telecommunications; appropriating money for the broadband grant program.

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Utilities Finance and Policy.

A similar bill (HF3527) was introduced in the House early March. Here’s the text of the bill.

A bill for an act
relating to telecommunications; appropriating money for the broadband grant
program.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1. BROADBAND GRANT PROGRAM; APPROPRIATION.

$51,480,000 in fiscal year 2019 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner
of employment and economic development for deposit in the border-to-border broadband
fund account under Minnesota Statutes, section 116J.396. The appropriation must be used
for grants and the purposes specified under Minnesota Statutes, section 116J.395.