Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Foreign Robocall Elimination Act
The bill strengthens tools for traceback, data sharing, and enforcement to reduce unlawful international robocalls, improving consumer protection, at the cost of increased data sharing legal protections, potential privacy and reputational harms to providers, higher compliance costs for some businesses, and modest administrative burdens on federal agencies.
Lulu’s Law
The bill improves public safety by providing shark-warning alerts to protect beachgoers, but does so at the cost of more frequent alerts that could cause public alert fatigue and create operational burdens for emergency agencies.
988 Lifeline Location Improvement Act of 2026
The bill aims to speed and standardize location-based assistance and improve accessibility and oversight for 988, but it trades off meaningful privacy risks, implementation and funding costs, possible governance overreach, and limits on new spending that could constrain effective rollout.
Kari's Law Reporting Act
The bill increases FCC transparency and could improve 911 access for vulnerable callers, but it creates modest taxpayer costs and may raise compliance burdens for manufacturers and vendors if stricter enforcement or new rules follow.
First Responder Network Authority Reauthorization Act of 2026
The bill strengthens oversight, transparency, and first-responder protections for the nationwide public-safety broadband network—improving outage detection, planning, and governance—but does so by centralizing authority and adding compliance requirements that could slow some decisions and raise costs for contractors, governments, and taxpayers.
Mystic Alerts Act
The bill expands the reach of emergency alerts via satellite and limits consumer fees and provider legal risk to encourage participation, but benefits may be uneven due to device compatibility, voluntary provider participation, privacy risks, and reduced user recourse.
Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act
The bill speeds deployment of communications infrastructure—especially in rural areas—by streamlining federal permitting, but does so at the potential cost of reduced environmental review, diminished local input, and new administrative burdens on agencies.
Emergency Reporting Act
The bill improves transparency and oversight of communications outages—helping emergency response and bringing stakeholder input—while imposing agency workload, leaving some data confidential, and potentially increasing compliance costs for providers.
DIGITAL Applications Act
The bill streamlines and clarifies how parties apply to install communications facilities on public lands—potentially speeding deployment and improving service—while raising equity concerns for digitally underserved people, fiscal costs, and environmental risks to public lands.
Undersea Cable Protection Act of 2025
The bill speeds and simplifies undersea cable deployment (benefiting consumers, businesses, and rural broadband) while narrowing sanctuary-specific protections and oversight, increasing environmental and governance risks for sanctuary-dependent communities and public trust.
NET Act
The bill increases transparency about whether equipment availability is affecting broadband deployment without adding new data burdens on providers, but its usefulness may be limited by data gaps and it creates modest extra administrative work for the FCC.
Foreign Adversary Communications Transparency Act
The bill increases transparency about foreign ties in the broadband and communications sector to reduce national-security risks and improve procurement decisions, but it may raise costs, harm some companies' reputations, and weaken paperwork/privacy oversight with downstream effects on prices and competition for consumers.
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill makes large, targeted investments to strengthen U.S. military readiness, the defense industrial base, and service‑member benefits while imposing significant new budgetary commitments, compliance burdens, and policy tradeoffs that restrict some medical/research freedoms and complicate contractor/industry dynamics.
Enhancing First Response Act
This bill improves 911 reliability and emergency-response data/visibility—helping families, businesses, and planners—but imposes short-term administrative burdens on federal agencies and could lead to downstream compliance costs for vendors and businesses.
Undersea Cable Control Act
The bill tightens protections and oversight for undersea cable supply chains and increases transparency to bolster national security, while imposing compliance and export constraints that could raise costs, complicate procurement, and delay projects.
Communications Security Act
The bill creates a permanent, expert-informed advisory council to strengthen communications security and interoperability while concentrating appointment power in the FCC Chair and reducing periodic oversight, trading broader security coordination for increased risk of politicized membership and weaker external review.
Open RAN Outreach Act
The bill helps small and rural providers modernize networks and boosts competition to potentially lower costs for consumers, at the trade-off of introducing potential Open RAN security/interoperability risks and modest additional federal resource costs.
NTIA Policy and Cybersecurity Coordination Act
The bill creates a new NTIA office to expand rural broadband, improve network security, and accelerate tech commercialization, at the trade‑off of potential industry‑tilted policymaking, centralized federal influence, privacy risks from published data, and added taxpayer costs.
Promoting United States Wireless Leadership Act of 2025
The bill boosts U.S. coordination and security-focused influence in global wireless standards, but does so by excluding some firms, risking politicized disputes with partners, and imposing modest taxpayer costs.
Understanding Cybersecurity of Mobile Networks Act
The bill promises greater public transparency and coordinated cybersecurity best practices for mobile networks, but risks exposing vulnerabilities if reporting isn't carefully redacted, may omit important 5G risks, and will impose administrative costs on government and industry.
Precision Agriculture Satellite Connectivity Act
The bill directs the FCC to pursue regulatory steps that could speed satellite-enabled precision agriculture and inform policymakers, but it provides no funding and risks favoring certain technologies while adding FCC workload.
ITS Codification Act
The bill boosts federal spectrum research, public-safety tracking technology, and commercialization to expand civilian spectrum access and improve rescue capabilities, while imposing federal costs and creating risks of interference, favoritism, and industry compliance burdens.
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to "Addressing the Homework Gap Through the E-Rate Program".
Foreign Adversary Communications Transparency Act
The bill increases transparency and speeds FCC data collection to better flag potential national-security risks from foreign-controlled telecom licensees, but does so at the cost of commercial privacy risks, possible reputational labeling, higher compliance costs, and reduced procedural oversight.
NTIA Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and clarifies NTIA leadership and coordination and provides predictable near-term funding to strengthen spectrum management and international telecom representation, but it raises costs, concentrates authority (reducing some external oversight and independent input), and creates transition/compliance burdens that could slow deployments.
Secure Space Act of 2025
The bill strengthens national security and protects critical communications by restricting satellite vendors with risky ties and forcing faster FCC rules, but it risks disrupting market access, raising costs, creating legal/compliance burdens, and delaying or reducing broadband options—especially for rural areas and certain companies.
FUTURE Networks Act
The bill concentrates federal coordination to speed and standardize 6G rollout and risk mitigation, but does so with exclusionary authorities and tight timelines that may limit participation, transparency, and depth of analysis while creating modest administrative costs.
ROUTERS Act
The bill funds a one-year Commerce Department study to identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks from foreign-influenced consumer networking devices—providing actionable findings and faster policy input but risking higher consumer costs, market stigma for identified suppliers, and potentially incomplete conclusions due to the short timeline.
Affirming the unwavering commitment of the Senate to the First Amendment and to freedom of speech and of the press as foundations of the democratic republic of the United States.
The resolution strengthens protections against viewpoint-based censorship for speakers and platforms but may restrict agencies' flexibility to quickly address misinformation and other online harms, trading regulatory agility for firmer free-speech safeguards.
Broadcast Freedom and Independence Act of 2025
The bill strengthens protections against viewpoint-based regulatory action and preserves FCC independence, but at the cost of reducing regulators' flexibility to address non-criminal harmful content, media concentration concerns, and executive direction in emergencies.
