H.R. 1343 explained · 119th Congress · Pending in Congress
Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act
Cosponsors: 2 (2 D, 0 R) · per Congress.gov, 2026-10-08
Introduced: 2025-02-13
Latest action (2026-04-21): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
What H.R. 1343 does, in plain terms
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.)
Official summary by the Congressional Research Service, via Congress.gov.
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