House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
BROADBAND Leadership Act
Official title: To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to streamline siting processes for telecommunications service facilities, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 9, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 9, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 278.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GRIFFITH, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 5, January 9, 2025, Page H92):Article 1 Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 9, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 19 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 278, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/278
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- February 10, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of February 10, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.