Title: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that any infrastructure legislation that provides Federal funds to wireless broadband providers to promote wireless broadband deployment should prioritize funds for wireless broadband providers in States that have enacted streamlined siting requirements for small cells.
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that infrastructure legislation that provides federal funding to wireless broadband providers should prioritize funds for wireless broadband providers in states that have enacted streamlined siting requirements for small cells (low-powered cellular radio access nodes with a shorter range and smaller size than cellular towers).

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 689 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 689

     Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that any 
  infrastructure legislation that provides Federal funds to wireless 
  broadband providers to promote wireless broadband deployment should 
 prioritize funds for wireless broadband providers in States that have 
        enacted streamlined siting requirements for small cells.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 11, 2018

 Mr. Hudson submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
     Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that any 
  infrastructure legislation that provides Federal funds to wireless 
  broadband providers to promote wireless broadband deployment should 
 prioritize funds for wireless broadband providers in States that have 
        enacted streamlined siting requirements for small cells.

Whereas wireless broadband brings extraordinary opportunities for economic 
        growth and investment across every sector of the economy;
Whereas wireless broadband is in the midst of a revolution to fifth generation 
        technology that will bring about speeds estimated anywhere from 10 to 
        100 times faster than existing LTE wireless technology;
Whereas the development and deployment of fifth generation wireless broadband 
        will increase efficiencies for virtually every industry and economic 
        sector of the United States economy;
Whereas the broader economic benefits of fifth generation wireless broadband may 
        include 2.2 million jobs and add roughly $420 billion in gross domestic 
        product;
Whereas the United States is competing with other countries and regions around 
        the world to deploy fifth generation wireless broadband first to reap 
        the greatest economic gains from this technology;
Whereas cost estimates to deploy fifth generation technology across the United 
        States exceed $300 billion;
Whereas current siting regulations were designed for traditional large towers 
        used by previous generations of technology, while fifth generation 
        wireless technology will be enabled by a densified network of small 
        cells; and
Whereas roughly a dozen States have already enacted legislation to streamline 
        small cell siting regulations: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
any infrastructure legislation that provides Federal funds to wireless 
broadband providers to promote wireless broadband deployment should 
prioritize funds for wireless broadband providers in States that have 
enacted streamlined siting requirements for small cells.
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