Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
Introduced Sep 17, 2025 by Rep. Thomas H. Kean
The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
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.
No recorded roll-call vote on this bill — it may have passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record individual votes.
- Mar 4, 2026Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- Mar 3, 2026The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 3, 2026Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 3, 2026On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2352)
- Mar 3, 2026Passed/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, 2026DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5419.
- Mar 3, 2026Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2352-2353)
- Mar 3, 2026Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Feb 24, 2026Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 441.
- Feb 24, 2026Committee on Agriculture discharged.
- Feb 24, 2026Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-516, Part I.
- Feb 11, 2026Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- Feb 11, 2026Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Feb 11, 2026Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged
- Dec 11, 2025Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Dec 4, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- Sep 17, 2025Referred 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, 2025Introduced in House