United StatesDIGITAL Applications Act
What it does
This bill requires the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service to each establish an online portal for accepting, processing, and disposal of applications for communications use authorizations. These are requests for easements, rights-of-way, leases, licenses, or other authorizations to locate or modify a transmitting device, support structure, or other communications facility on public lands or National Forest System land.
More detail
Interior and the Forest Service must also notify the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) within three business days of establishing their respective portals, and once the portals are established, the NTIA must link to them from its website.
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Mar 17Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.Latest
- Mar 16Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Mar 16Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2511-2513)
- Mar 16DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1665.
- Mar 16Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2511-2512)Passed House
- Mar 16Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Feb 4Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-487, Part I.
- Feb 4Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-487, Part II.
- Feb 4Committee on Agriculture discharged.Minor
- Feb 4Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 416.
- 2025
- Dec 3Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Dec 3Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 51 - 0.
- Nov 18Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Nov 18Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
- Apr 9Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.
- Apr 9Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Apr 9Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
- Feb 27Introduced in House
- Feb 27Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Feb 27Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.Introduced