Requires the Rural Economic Development Division within the Department of Commerce to administer a program to award grants to government units or nonprofit corporations located in either: (1) a development tier one or tier two area or (2) a rural census tract in a development tier three area for the purpose of establishing or providing ongoing broadband Internet service for the benefit of the residents of the community. Appropriates from the General Fund to the Rural Economic Development Division $50,000 for 2017‑18 to fund the grant program created. Requires the Rural Economic Development Division, on or before April 1, 2018, to report to the chairs of the House Appropriations Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources, the chairs of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Natural, and Economic Resources, and the Fiscal Research Division on the grant program. Effective July 1, 2017.