United States 119th Congress Status: Passed House 1 R cosponsors

HR 5419 — Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act

Last action — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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    Introduced
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    In Committee
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    Passed House
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    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has passed the House. Introduced September 17, 2025. It now moves to the second chamber.

Next likely step: consideration and a floor vote in the Senate.

Odds of enactment

Moderate chance

Based on the sponsor, cosponsors, and committee posture, this bill has a moderate chance of becoming law.

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Prognosis

Stalled 28% · moderate confidence

  • Passed House

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 R).

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Summary

Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment ActThis 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.)

Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

6 added · 1 removed

Plain-language change summary

The changes indicate that the bill H.R. 5419 has moved to the Senate after being received there on March 4, 2026, where it has been read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Additionally, the reference to the bill being engrossed in the House has been removed. This reflects the bill's progress in the legislative process from the House to the Senate.

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5419 Engrossed in House (EH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H.
5419 Referred in Senate (RFS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H.
5419 _______________________________________________________________________ AN ACT 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.
5419 _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 4, 2026 Received;
read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources _______________________________________________________________________ AN ACT 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.
Clerk.
KEVIN F.
119th CONGRESS 2d Session H.
MCCUMBER, Clerk.
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5419 _______________________________________________________________________ AN ACT 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.
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Action History

  1. Introduced in House

  2. Introduced in House

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

  6. Subcommittee Hearings Held

  7. Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged

  8. Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  9. Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.

  10. Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-516, Part I.

  11. Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-516, Part I.

  12. Committee on Agriculture discharged.

  13. Committee on Agriculture discharged.

  14. Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 441.

  15. Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

  16. Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2352-2353)

  17. DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5419.

  18. 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)

  19. On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2352)

  20. Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  21. The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.

  22. Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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Co-sponsors (0)

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Not signed on (546)

546 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Frequently asked questions

What does HR 5419 do?
Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment ActThis 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.)
Who sponsors HR 5419?
HR 5419 is sponsored by Kean, Thomas H. (Republican).
What is the current status of HR 5419?
This bill has passed the House. Introduced September 17, 2025. It now moves to the second chamber.
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