DIGITAL Applications Act

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Introduced 2025-02-27Topic: technology privacy · infrastructure utilities

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Summary by the Congressional Research Service

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.

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Action history

Date	Chamber	Action	Status effect
2026-03-17	Senate	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.	refer
2026-03-16	House	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2026-03-16	House	On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2511-2512)
2026-03-16		Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2511-2512)	floor pass
2026-03-16	House	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1665.
2026-03-16	House	Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2511-2513)
2026-03-16	House	Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
2026-02-04	House	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 416.
2026-02-04	House	Committee on Agriculture discharged.	report
2026-02-04		Committee on Agriculture discharged.	report
2026-02-04	House	Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-487, Part II.	report
2026-02-04		Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-487, Part II.	report
2026-02-04	House	Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-487, Part I.	report
2026-02-04		Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-487, Part I.	report
2025-12-03	House	Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 51 - 0.	refer
2025-12-03	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held	refer
2025-11-18	House	Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.	refer
2025-11-18	House	Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held	refer
2025-04-09	House	Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.	refer
2025-04-09	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held	refer
2025-04-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.	refer
2025-02-27	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.	refer
2025-02-27	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.	refer
2025-02-27	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.	refer
2025-02-27	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.	refer
2025-02-27		Introduced in House	introduce
2025-02-27		Introduced in House	introduce

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