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The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on communications and technology, which held hearings on H.R. 1301 in January, sent the bill to the full committee on February 11 with a favorable recommendation. The bill, also known as the Amateur Radio Parity Act, would require that homeownwers’ associations and restrictive covenants(CC&Rs) “reasonably accommodate” amateur radio operation, the same rule that has applied to state and local governments since 1985. According to the ARRL Letter, the bill currently has over 100 co-sponsors and a companion bill in the U.S. Senate, S. 1685, was approved last year by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.