United StatesEnhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
What it does
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.)
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Mar 4Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.Latest
- Mar 3Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Mar 3Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2352-2353)
- Mar 3DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5419.
- Mar 3Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2352)Passed House
- Mar 3Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 3The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
- Feb 24Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-516, Part I.
- Feb 24Committee on Agriculture discharged.Minor
- Feb 24Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 441.
- Feb 11Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged
- Feb 11Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Feb 11Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- 2025
- Dec 11Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Dec 4Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- Sep 17Introduced in House
- Sep 17Referred 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.Introduced