S 503
Passed a chamber
Requires the FCC's broadband deployment report to assess how the availability of telecommunications network equipment may have affected the rollout of advanced telecommunications capability, to the extent data is available.
Official title: NET Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Received
10-NOV-2025
Senate
Introduced
10-FEB-2025
Referred
10-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
21-MAY-2025
Reported
29-SEP-2025
On the calendar
29-SEP-2025
Passed
04-NOV-2025
- Adds a new item to the FCC's required section 13 reporting duties asking how network equipment availability may have affected advanced telecommunications deployment during the reporting period
- Limits the assessment to the extent data is available to the Commission
- States that providers need not give the FCC more information than section 13 required before enactment
- Renumbers existing paragraphs and cross-references in section 13 of the Communications Act of 1934 to fit the new item
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in Senate" (10-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in Senate, 04-NOV-2025).
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■ 2 R■ 1 D
2 Republicans
1 Democrat