Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Accelerating Broadband Permits Act of 2026
Official title: A bill to require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to create tools for tracking the progress of grant recipients under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program, to require the Assistant Secretary to help executive agencies improve compliance with the statutory deadline for processing communications use applications, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen. John Thune R-SDWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 30, 2026
- Committee actionJul 22, 2026
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jul 22, 2026 — Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 4448.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 4448, Accelerating Broadband Permits Act of 2026” on October 16, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on July 22, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 16, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62861
- CBO publication date
- October 16, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 4448, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/4448
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- October 16, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- October 19, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of October 16, 2026). 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
2 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 1 Democrat
1 of 2 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Oct 19, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.