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Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a plan for ensuring timely review of communications use authorizations, and for other purposes.
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Summary
Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
This bill requires the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service to study and report on any barriers to and staffing needs for completing timely reviews of requests for communications use authorizations. (These are requests for easements, rights-of-way, leases, licenses, or other authorizations to locate or modify a transmitting device, support structure, or other communications facility on public lands or National Forest System land.)
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Mar 4, 2026 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- Mar 3, 2026 The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 3, 2026 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 3, 2026 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2352)
- Mar 3, 2026 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5419.
- Mar 3, 2026 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2352-2353)
- Mar 3, 2026 Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Feb 24, 2026 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 441.
- Feb 24, 2026 Committee on Agriculture discharged.
- Feb 24, 2026 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-516, Part I.
- Feb 11, 2026 Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- Feb 11, 2026 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Feb 11, 2026 Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged
- Dec 11, 2025 Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Dec 4, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- Sep 17, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Sep 17, 2025 Introduced in House
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