HR 2289
Advanced toward a vote
Limits local and state review of wireless and wireline broadband facilities by setting decision deadlines, capping fees, and exempting many such projects from federal environmental and historic preservation reviews.
Official title: American Broadband Deployment Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
24-MAR-2025
Referred
24-MAR-2025
Approved by committee
03-DEC-2025
Reported
15-APR-2026
On the calendar
15-APR-2026
- Sets 60 to 150 day deadlines for state and local decisions on wireless and wireline facility requests, and treats a request as approved if the deadline passes without action.
- Limits local fees for reviewing these requests to competitively neutral, publicly disclosed charges based on actual and direct costs.
- Exempts covered communications projects from National Environmental Policy Act major federal action review and National Historic Preservation Act undertaking review.
- Requires a decision on a cable franchise request within 120 days and makes a franchise continue without renewal unless revoked for cause.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (24-MAR-2025); the text has changed since (Reported in House, 15-APR-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Natural Resources Committee (House)
- Energy and Commerce Committee (House)
- Communications and Technology Subcommittee
Science, Technology, Communications
■ 14 R
14 Republicans