Directs the FCC to adopt rules within 12 months to streamline licensing and market‑access procedures for certain satellite and earth‑station systems and to identify categories eligible for expedited review.
Creates a new part of the Communications Act that sets definitions and procedural rules to speed up Federal Communications Commission review of certain satellite and earth station license and market‑access requests. It requires the FCC to adopt implementing rules within 12 months and to identify categories of applications and modifications eligible for expedited treatment. Applies to pending and future applications and authorizations for systems operated by space stations (both non‑geostationary and geostationary) and the individual earth stations that communicate with them, limits the covered services to ITU‑defined radio services (excluding specified aeronautical and maritime safety services), and directs the FCC to prescribe timelines, modification classes, and streamlined processes for licensing and market‑access decisions.
Official title: To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for radiofrequency licensing authority relating to certain operations, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 14, 2026 by Brett Guthrie · Last progress April 14, 2026