Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act passed the House 431 days after introduction and awaits a vote in the Senate
IntroducedFeb 13, 2025
ReportedDec 3, 2025
Passed one chamberApr 20, 2026
Passed both—
Law—
What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 65 words.
Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to submit a plan to Congress for tracking the acceptance, processing, and disposition of applications 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.)
Context
- Committees
- House Energy and Commerce Committee
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee - Policy area
- Science, Technology, Communications: 52 of 2,109 bills became law, 113th–118th (2.5%)
- Sponsor
- 2 of 151 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 4, from introduced in house to referred in senate · 424 words
- Subjects
- Congressional oversightGovernment buildings, facilities, and propertyGovernment information and archivesInfrastructure developmentInternet, web applications, social media
- Latest action
- Apr 21, 2026: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 0
The bill status record lists no related bills.
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]