HR 5419 · Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- Introduced
- Sep 17, 2025
- Latest action
- Mar 4, 2026
- Sponsor
- Rep. Thomas H. Kean [R-NJ-7]
- Policy area
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Cosponsors
- 0
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.)
Recent 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 Passed/agreed to in House: 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.
Votes
No recorded votes are available for this bill.