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H.R. 5419 119th Congress House

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 broadband land use authorizations, and for other purposes

Introduced: September 17, 2025 Introduced by: Thomas H. Kean, Jr. Republican · New Jersey See on congress.gov
Public Lands and Natural Resources Advisory bodiesCongressional oversightGovernment buildings, facilities, and propertyInfrastructure development
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In committee
Reported out
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Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 4, 2026
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Mar 3, 2026
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Mar 3, 2026
The title of the measure was amended. 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
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
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
Committee on Agriculture discharged.
Feb 24, 2026
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-516, Part I.
Feb 24, 2026
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 441.
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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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.)

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5419: Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5419/
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"H.R. 5419: Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5419/.
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