Facilitating DIGITAL Applications Act
Latest action · Dec 18, 2024 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 746.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 15, 2023
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Facilitating the Deployment of Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act or the Facilitating DIGITAL Applications Act
This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to periodically report on the development of online portals for processing communications use authorizations. Communications use authorizations 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.
Specifically, the NTIA must report to Congress about (1) whether the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service have each established a portal, and (2) barriers to establishing the portals. The NTIA must submit the first report within 90 days of the enactment of the bill and every 60 days thereafter until the portals are established.
Additionally, Interior and the Forest Service must notify the NTIA within three business days of establishing their respective portals.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on May 15, 2023.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MI | Debbie Dingell | Original | May 15, 2023 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred May 15, 2023Discharged Sep 19, 2024Markup Sep 19, 2024Reported Dec 18, 2024 |
| Federal Lands Subcommittee | Referred Jul 8, 2024Hearings Jul 9, 2024 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred May 15, 2023Discharged Dec 18, 2024 |
| Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee | Referred Jun 1, 2023 | |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred May 15, 2023Markup May 24, 2023Reported Jun 7, 2024 |
| Communications and Technology Subcommittee | Referred May 15, 2023Markup May 17, 2023Reported May 17, 2023 |
Actions 17
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 18, 2024Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 118-545, Part II.
- Dec 18, 2024Committee on Agriculture discharged.
- Dec 18, 2024Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 746.
- Sep 19, 2024Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged
- Sep 19, 2024Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Sep 19, 2024Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- Jul 9, 2024Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Jul 8, 2024Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- Jun 7, 2024Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 118-545, Part I.
- Jun 1, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
- May 24, 2023Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- May 24, 2023Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 51 - 0.
- May 17, 2023Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- May 17, 2023Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
- May 15, 2023Introduced in House
- May 15, 2023Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and 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.
- May 15, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee reports
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2
- Oct 23, 2024H.R. 3283, Facilitating DIGITAL Applications ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on September 19, 2024
- Aug 2, 2023H.R. 3283, Facilitating DIGITAL Applications ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on May 24, 2023
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 81, May 15, 2023, page H2347.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 118-134 | H.R. 3283, H.R. 3299, H.R. 5401, H.R. 6012, H.R. 7976, AND H.R. 801267 pages | Natural Resources Committee | Jul 9, 2024 |
Titles 5
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to report to Congress on any barriers to establishing online portals to accept, process, and dispose of certain Form 299s, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Facilitating DIGITAL Applications Act
- Facilitating the Deployment of Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Facilitating DIGITAL Applications Act
- Facilitating the Deployment of Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 18, 2024Reported in House
- May 15, 2023Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
