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H.R. 1665 · 119th Congress

DIGITAL Applications Act

Introduced Feb 27, 2025Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Read the textOn Congress.gov

Status: Passed House

  1. Introduced
  2. Committee
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. To President
  6. Law

Latest action

: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Summary

Deploying Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act or the DIGITAL Applications Act

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.

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.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service.

Actions

  1. Senate

    Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

  2. House

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  3. House

    On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2511-2512)

  4. House

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1665.

  5. House

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2511-2513)

  6. House

    Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.

  7. House

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 416.

  8. House

    Committee on Agriculture discharged.

  9. House

    Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-487, Part II.

  10. House

    Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-487, Part I.

  11. House

    Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 51 - 0.

  12. House

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

Show 8 earlier actions
  1. House

    Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.

  2. House

    Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  3. House

    Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.

  4. House

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  5. House

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.

  6. House

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

  7. House

    Referred 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.

  8. Introduced in House