Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
Official title: 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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What Happened in Congress?
March 3, 2026
- HousePassed by voice vote
Where the Bill Stands
- Introduced, done
- Committee, done
- Floor Vote, done
- Outcome, current stage
What This Bill 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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Timeline
- SenateReceived in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- House floor actionsMr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Passed the House
- House floor actionsReported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-516, Part I.
- House committee actionsSubcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged
- House committee actionsSubcommittee Hearings Held
- House committee actionsReferred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- Library of CongressIntroduced in House
- House floor actionsReferred 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
- Committee



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