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Bill · 119th Congress · HR 1731
Standard FEES Act
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Introduced 2025-02-27Topic: infrastructure utilities · technology privacy · governance ethicsSummary
Summary by the Congressional Research ServiceStandard Fees to Expedite Evaluation and Streamlining Act or the Standard FEES Act This bill requires the General Services Administration (GSA) to establish, and federal agencies to adopt, a uniform schedule of fees for applications to place, modify, or maintain communications facilities in, over, or on federally owned buildings and property. The fees established by the GSA must be competitively neutral with respect to other application fees for similar uses of federal buildings and property and based on the direct and actual costs of processing such applications. The GSA may establish exceptions to the fee schedule to be granted by agencies on a case-by-case basis, provided the exceptions are competitively neutral with respect to the categories of individuals or entities granted exceptions and meet certain other requirements. Agencies may only use fees collected to cover the costs of processing applications, and only to the extent that the funds are provided in advance in appropriations acts.
Sponsors
- Gary J. Palmer Republican sponsor
- 2 cosponsors
Action history
| Date | Chamber | Action | Status effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-04 | House | Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-488, Part I. | report |
| 2026-02-04 | Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-488, Part I. | report | |
| 2025-12-03 | House | Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 49 - 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 |
| 2025-02-27 | House | Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management. | refer |
| 2025-02-27 | House | Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. | refer |
| 2025-02-27 | House | Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 |