Pipeline · Bill → Law
Step 1
Introduced
Sep 17, 2025
Step 2
Referred
Dec 4, 2025
Agriculture · Natural Resources · Energy and Natural Resources
Step 3
Committee
Feb 11, 2026
Reported out
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House floor
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Senate
Mar 4, 2026
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Resolve Changes
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Signed
SummaryCRS Summary
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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Timeline · 18 actions
Mar 4, 2026
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Mar 3, 2026
Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Mar 3, 2026
Considered under suspension of the rules.
Mar 3, 2026
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5419.
Mar 3, 2026
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
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.
Feb 24, 2026
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-516, Part I.
Feb 24, 2026
Committee on Agriculture discharged.
Feb 24, 2026
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 441.
Feb 11, 2026
Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged
Feb 11, 2026
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Feb 11, 2026
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Dec 11, 2025
Subcommittee Hearings Held
Dec 4, 2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Sep 17, 2025
Introduced in House
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
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.