All Roll Calls
Yes: 384 • No: 9
HR1681119th CongressWALLET
Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act
Sponsored By: Representative Evans (CO)
Passed House
Summary
Speeds federal reviews of communications use authorizations on public lands. This bill would create an interagency strike force to set review goals, monitor agency progress, and prioritize decisions needed to site or modify communications facilities.
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- Federal land agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service would be required to prioritize reviews across every office. The strike force must be established within 180 days and will set objective review goals and track each organizational unit.
- Broadband and communications providers would get a single federal forum focused on easements, leases, rights-of-way, and other authorizations used to place or modify communications facilities. The strike force would hold periodic calls to coordinate and speed agency reviews.
- The Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information would lead the group and include agency heads and specified designees. Not later than 270 days after enactment the Assistant Secretary would report to the named congressional committees on the strike force's effectiveness.
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Faster broadband permits on federal lands
If enacted, this bill would require the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information to set up an interagency strike force within 180 days. The group would push the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service, and their local offices, to put reviews for requests to place or upgrade communications equipment on public lands first. It would hold regular calls, set clear review time goals, and track each office’s progress. The Assistant Secretary would have to report to Congress on the strike force’s results within 270 days. This could help speed broadband build-outs on these lands; results would depend on how agencies carry it out.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Evans (CO)
CO • R
Cosponsors
Craig
MN • D
Sponsored 2/27/2025
Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7]
VA • D
Sponsored 4/29/2025
Roll Call Votes
house vote • 4/20/2026
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
Yes: 384 • No: 9