H.R. 1681 · 119th Congress · Science, technology, communications
Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Apr 20, 2026
Roll call ↗384
9
Passed the House.
Passed the House on April 20, 2026.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
- IntroducedFeb 27, 2025
- CommitteeJan 12, 2026
- Passed HouseApr 20, 2026
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 2
- all Democrats
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationHouse Committee on AgricultureHouse Committee on Energy and CommerceHouse Committee on Natural Resources
- Lobbying
- At least 11
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
The bill orders the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to stand up an interagency strike force within 180 days of enactment.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, April 20, 2026
Yea unless marked
D · House · NC-12
R · House · AL-4
D · House · CA-33
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
The bill orders the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to stand up an interagency strike force within 180 days of enactment. The strike force exists to push the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service, down to their field and district offices, to prioritize reviewing requests to place or modify communications equipment on public land and National Forest System land. Its members are the Assistant Secretary, the heads of those two agencies, and designees of the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior. Its duties are to hold periodic calls, set objective goals for how fast those requests get reviewed, and track whether the agencies meet those goals. The Assistant Secretary must report to named congressional committees within 270 days on how well the strike force is working. The bill creates no new approval standard and no deadline for any individual permit. It defines the equipment, land, and authorizations it covers by cross-reference to existing statutes.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 11 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 44 quarterly reports filed by 3 lobbying firms and by 8 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: Competitive Carriers Association; Telecommunity; Charter Communications Inc; AT&T Services Inc and Its Affiliates; Wireless Infrastructure Association. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 6 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.