DIGITAL Applications Act
Introduced Feb 27, 2025 by Rep. Kat Cammack
The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
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.
No recorded roll-call vote on this bill — it may have passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record individual votes.
- Mar 17, 2026Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- Mar 16, 2026Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 16, 2026On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2511-2512)
- Mar 16, 2026Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2511-2512)
- Mar 16, 2026DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1665.
- Mar 16, 2026Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2511-2513)
- Mar 16, 2026Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Feb 4, 2026Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 416.
- Feb 4, 2026Committee on Agriculture discharged.
- Feb 4, 2026Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-487, Part II.
- Feb 4, 2026Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-487, Part I.
- Dec 3, 2025Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 51 - 0.
- Dec 3, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Nov 18, 2025Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
- Nov 18, 2025Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Apr 9, 2025Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
- Apr 9, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Apr 9, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.
- Feb 27, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
- Feb 27, 2025Referred 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 27, 2025Introduced in House